Rick King

Rick King was reappointed to chair the Metropolitan Airports Commission by Governor Tim Walz in April 2023, having been initially named chair by Governor Walz in July 2019. He was first appointed to the Board in 2011 by Governor Mark Dayton, who reappointed him in 2015. King is also past chair of both the MAC's Management and Operations Committee and the Planning, Development and Environment Committee.

King is a former executive from Thomson Reuters after more than 20 years serving as CIO, CTO and Managing Director. Previously, he held executive-level positions at Ceridian Employer Services, Jostens Learning and WICAT Systems Inc. King began his career as a teacher and coach in Vermont.

King has served on the board of directors of Huntington Bancshares since 2021 when it acquired TCF Financial Corporation, where he served on its board from 2014. He is also a member of the board of directors of Q5id.

King was also named by Governor Walz to chair the Technology Advisory Council, a spinoff of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Council on IT in February 2019, which he also chaired. Under former Governor Tim Pawlenty, he chaired Minnesota’s Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task Force between 2008 – 2009. King received many awards for his leadership in technology, including the CIO of the Year Leadership ORBIE from TwinCitiesCIO and a special Lifetime Achievement Tekne award from the Minnesota Technology Association, both in 2020. 

King earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Vermont and a CERT Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.

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