Prior to that appointment, he was a professor and senior associate dean at Harvard Business School.
[1] Wheelwright has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Utah and an MBA and Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
[2] On May 12, 2015, it was announced that effective July 27, 2015, Wheelwright would be succeeded by John S. Tanner as the president of BYU-Hawaii.
[3] In November 2015, he began a three-year term as president of the LDS Church's Boston Massachusetts Temple.
They are the parents of five children, including Marianne W. Lewis, former dean of the Cass Business School in London[5] and current dean of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati.