Michael Geary, CAE

CEO | SMPS

Michael V. Geary, CAE, is serving as the CEO of the Society for Marketing Professional Services and the SMPS Foundation. Prior to joining SMPS, he served as the President & CEO of AmericanHort and the Horticultural Research Institute, and concurrently as the Executive Director of the Ohio Produce Growers & Marketers Association and the Nursery & Landscape Association Executives of North America. He also led the American Institute of Architecture Students and served in a senior staff position with the National Association of Home Builders. Michael has nearly thirty years of association management and organizational development experience. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and earned the designation of Certified Association Executive (CAE) from the American Society of Association Executives in 2000.