Retail and Leasing
Mike Wood's career began in automotive sales and leasing and grew to include independent dealership and vehicle-leasing operations in Vancouver.
Automotive retail, vehicle leasing and automotive technology
Mike Wood's Vancouver Automotive Career
Mike Wood, also known as Michael C. Wood, spent more than three decades working in automotive retail, vehicle leasing and dealership operations in Vancouver before co-founding the automotive-technology company that became MintList.
Automotive Background
- Professional name
- Mike Wood
- Also known as
- Michael Wood and Michael C. Wood
- Location
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Industry experience
- Automotive retail, vehicle leasing, dealership operations and digital automotive marketplaces
- Industry leadership
- President of the National Vehicle Leasing Association in 2008–2009 and a later participant in its Past Presidents Panel
- Automotive businesses
- Experience included independent vehicle dealing and leasing, Autoform Performance and management at Lotus Vancouver
- Automotive technology
- Co-founder and CEO of TrafficDriven Technologies, later known as MintList Technologies
From Dealerships to Automotive Technology
Autoform and Lotus
His later retail experience included Autoform Performance and management at Lotus Vancouver, with media coverage focused on Vancouver's luxury and specialty-vehicle market.
TrafficDriven and MintList
He applied that operating experience to an online marketplace connecting consumers and automotive dealers, first developed as TrafficDriven and launched as MintList.
Independent Automotive Coverage
The Globe and Mail — car dealership feature
Report on Business coverage involving Mike Wood and automotive retail.
Global News — luxury car sales in B.C.
Mike Wood of Autoform Performance appears as an industry source discussing British Columbia's luxury-vehicle market.
Vancouver Courier — car culture in top form
A feature on Vancouver automotive culture and Autoform.
National Vehicle Leasing Association — Past Presidents Panel
The conference program contains a biography covering Mike Wood's automotive and vehicle-leasing experience.
Business in Vancouver — MintList enters B.C.'s online car market
Reporting on the move from dealership operations into automotive technology.
BetaKit — MintList financing and growth
Coverage of MintList, its founders and the experience behind its online automotive marketplace.
Canadian Auto Dealer — MintList marketplace
Automotive-industry reporting on the platform's dealer auction and consumer trade-in model.