Michael T. Scanlon, Jr., has forty-one years of executive experience in politics, government, corporations and in the not-for-profit sector.  Currently he serves as president and chief executive officer of the Self Storage Association (SSA) headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. 

The Association is the official not-for-profit trade association of the self storage industry and is the registered lobbying organization for the industry before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies.  The SSA represents the $22.0 billion (annual revenues) self storage industry that has grown to some 46,000 facilities across the nation in the last 35 years.

Prior to his current position, Scanlon served in the as associate executive director of the American Bar Association (ABA) and as senior manger in charge of its 185-person Communications Group that produced the ABA Journal magazine, 17 other periodicals and 34 separate newsletters.  His prior association experience includes an eight-year stint as executive vice president and chief executive officer of the Petroleum Marketing Education Foundation (PMEF), the oil industry’s executive education arm, and five years as vice president for policy (and as chief lobbyist) for the Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA) representing 10,000 small business petroleum distributors and convenience store owners.

Mr. Scanlon has served in the private sector as president of The Collins Companies, a professional sports franchise ownership and management investment group, and as senior vice president for marketing and communications for Metrocall, Inc. (now USA Mobility, Inc.), the nation’s largest wireless data and messaging company.  Earlier in his career he served as manager of government affairs for Arcata National Corporation, a forest products, printing, publishing and consumer products conglomerate.

Prior to his corporate and association work, Mr. Scanlon was involved in government and politics at the national and local levels.  He served at The White House - Office of Public Liaison, under President Gerald R. Ford, as a director of White House Conferences; as special assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); as bureau chief for state & local government programs for the Federal Energy Office - Executive Office of the President, during the 1973-74 oil embargo period.  He was director of communications for The City of Cleveland, Ohio (his hometown).  And in 1970 he was a political campaign director for Robert Taft, Jr. of Ohio’s successful 1970 campaign for the U.S. Senate, and from 1971-1973 as a special assistant to U.S. Senator Robert J. Dole of Kansas, during his tenure as Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

During the 1990’s Mike was involved as an investor/owner of two minor league baseball franchises:  The Greensboro “Hornets” (and then the “Bats”) which was at the time a Yankees Class A franchise in the South Atlantic League, and The Michigan Battle Cats which was a Boston Red Sox and then Houston Astros franchise which won the Midwest League Championship in 2000.

Scanlon is a graduate of John Carroll University, in University Heights, Ohio with a degree in Communication.

To contact Mike Scanlon please email: mike@scanlonmcm.com