Mike Wolfe

 Mike Wolfe, creator and the star of the hit History Channel TV show "American Pickers" has become famous by governing the world of "picking," a place where treasures are mined in crumbling barns, old buildings, sheds and dilapidated warehouses that are found along America's back roads as well as main streets. In the present, he's at top of his game and is a leading voice in the field of interiors and collectibles, not to mention a personal empire that includes retail books, stores, product lines endorsement agreements, as well as an coming CBS sitcom pilot was conceived by him based on his life as America's foremost professional scavenger. Mike is also the show's executive producer. Mike started his career as a treasure hunter who traveled across the country looking for "rusty gold". Then he traded it and bought it in his Antique Archaeology shops. Located in Le Claire, Iowa, and Nashville, Tennessee, the stores are filled with authentic vintage and antique treasures Mike has found while traveling as well as the official merchandise of his Antique Archaeology brand.