Name Mike Arnold
Company Stealth Global
Industries
Position CEO
HQ Perth, Australia
Employees 51EXECUTIVE INTERVIEWThe secret to
good Stealth
Through a combination of multi-channel platforms and
strategic partner networks, Stealth Global Industries
CEO, Mike Arnold, has built a well-oiled supply and
logistics machine.IMAGES DAVID BROADWAYA
lthough Stealth Global Industries specialises in ensuring the
seamless delivery of complex supply chain processes for its clients,
its commitment to quality products and experiences is anything
but covert. Its growth is also no secret to its customers, who now
have access to more than 300,000 products via both catalogue and
e-commerce platforms, sourced from more than 2,000 suppliers, divided into
twenty-nine categories, and growing.Behind the proud smile of CEO Mike Arnold is thirty years’ experience in supply
chain and third party logistics. Leaving school at fifteen, Mike started his
career as an apprentice mechanic in his father’s civil contracting business. After
three and a half years, Mike had a change of heart and began pondering how he
could make a new future for himself. “While working for my father, I realised
pretty early on that I didn’t want to spend my life rolling around in grease.
That’s when the opportunity came up to be a transport clerk with one of the
largest transportation businesses throughout Western Australia — the Bell
Group. So I applied and was fortunate to get in,” says Mike.Taking to the new role like a duck to water, Mike was promoted to a
supervisor position with the company within three months. “In that new role,
I ran all the metropolitan and port transportation. I then proceeded to take
on the Northwest operations, so by the age of twenty-one, I was leading about
120 people, including transport drivers, clerical staff, as well as people who
worked on the docks loading all the trucks. By the age of twenty-five, I had