For the next ten years, he worked in sales and marketing at Automatic Data Processing. He then became Regional Vice President at Cox Communications. In 1985, he founded Melaleuca, Inc., a company that sells personal care and cleaning products, as well as nutritional supplements, via its own “Consumer Direct Marketing” plan. The company has been very successful, and now operates in multiple countries. Mr. VanderSloot’s political financing and stance on LGBT issues has drawn fire from multiple groups over the years.