Michael Chagala is the founder and CEO of Rank Harvest Digital Marketing and expert in generative Ai search and GEO. Rank Harvest is a San Diego agency that offers GEO and other premium digital marketing services to local and national businesses in competitive markets, difficult niche challenges, and product launches. Michael’s career began sweeping the server room floor as an unpaid intern at a software development company, later progressing from software engineer to digital marketing then leadership. Michael was an executive at one of the fastest growing companies in the United States helping bring a small energy company from $20 million annual revenue to nearly $70 as part of a small team of Directors. - Finalist for 2025 CEO of the Year - San Diego Business Journal - Featured in Fiverr’s Q4 2021 Shareholder Newsletter - Finalist for San Diego Top Tech Exec 2015 - San Diego Business Journal Information Technology Executive of the Year Award, 2013 - Featured in Forbes, Wired, Greentech, NYT, UT… for innovative work with Google Glass - Speaker at the Solar Focus 2014 conference, on workflow software for solar energy - Speaker at the Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit 2015 - Multiple live and recorded television appearances As CEO, Michael is Rank Harvest’s visionary, providing strategic direction. His current focus is helping brands get found in Ai search including Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity and more. After 20 years in SEO, Michael welcomes the new methodologies of GEO (Generative Engine Optimization).