He has successfully led and improved the level of customer service and innovation for large- complex information centered organizations in the private & public sectors.
He has assisted large and small business & public sector entities with: innovation, transformations, grants, business development , operational upgrades and improvements in customer services. Mike understands how AI and technology use are re-shaping the work place and service delivery.
As a 12 year Mid-Ohio Regional Plan Commissioner and former Commission Chairman, coupled with his early career days representing a two state-75 store food retailer, allowed Mike to learn about the essential role transportation, technology & logistics play in our North American economy.
Those entities Mike has assisted include but are not limited to: qualified technology vendors wanting to connect their beneficial solutions to interested U.S. DMVs, public safety and transportation entities. With an inclusive-empowering leadership style, Mike made improving operations at all the places he helped to lead, a mission & priority.
This includes the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles “BMV”; the Ohio Secretary of State https://www.ohiosos.gov/ ; the Franklin County, Ohio Prosecutor’s Office https://prosecutor.franklincountyohio.gov/; convening the Real Time Crime Information Center Task Force study in Feb. 2021 that led to the same being funded & developed for opening in Columbus, Ohio in 2028 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEBRUc2FZdE ; and, ensuring prosecutor support & engagement in the July 2023 launch of the Central Ohio Crime Gun Intelligence Center (“CGIC”) which uses intelligence led policing & prosecuting to help take crime guns and shooters off of our streets.
Working with a wide range of business entities doing business with U.S. DMVs , public safety and transportation entities remains a focus. This includes work as the Business Development Director of Government Affairs for the Gemalto Company unit that serves the DMV community, www.gemalto.com , now part of Thales- a global identity management & aerospace and defense firm with over 80,000 employees in 68 countries.
Mike Rankin twice led the 2800 some staff of the 200 plus locations of the Ohio BMV in his term as the Registrar under two Governors. www.bmv.ohio.gov The BMV is the face of state govt. to most Ohioans.
He helped lead the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to a number one (#1) national rating for customer satisfaction. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-weeks-best-state-in-america-ohio-for-its-bureau-of-motor-vehicles/2014/05/16/c3f2f0ac-d9dd-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html
He served as the former Assistant Ohio Secretary of State (#2) under then Jennifer Brunner, now an Ohio Supreme Court Justice. www.sos.state.oh.us
He is the former Chief Deputy Clerk (#2), for the Franklin County Municipal Court Clerk’s Office in Ohio. www.fcmcclerk.com
Mike is also the former board member of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and past President of AAMVA Region 3. www.aamva.org that includes Ohio & the 10 states of the upper mid-west.
He is the former board/commission member and Chairman of the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission in Columbus, Ohio https://www.morpc.org /.
In addition Mike Rankin served as an attorney for the following clients:
-Electric utility provider, American Electric Power www.aep.com
-Intl. Wireless telecom tower company www.crowncastle.com
-Natl. commercial real estate developers including The Cafaro Company www.cafarocompany.com and CA. based Standard Management Company https://www.standardmanagement.com/. -First in-house counsel and real property mgr. for the former Seaway Food Town, Inc., a two state, 75 store location, NYSE grocery store chain and owner of 27 strip shopping centers. Firm based in Maumee, Ohio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaway_Food_Town
What he stands for
Being a trusted advisor is above all other things treating people the way we would want to be treated. Mike Rankin takes this to heart in everything he does.