Mitch Kelsey

Cybersecurity Advisor, CDW

Mitch leads discussions related to offensive security, risk advisory consulting, vulnerability management, and cyber security practice maturity development in Western Canada for CDW Canada. Before moving to a pre-sales advisory role, Mitch conducted risk advisory consulting, cyber security practice maturity development, and managed security operations. Mitch has a BA focused on international security and conflict from SFU, CISSP, and PMP backed by international professional advisory experience to Fortune 500 companies.

Mitch started his career in security with a strategic security consultancy’s UAE office where he was engaged on threat risk assessments related to critical infrastructure, diplomatic security and counter terrorism, as well as cyber security strategy and policy development in the Middle East and internationally. As a result, Mitch takes a broad-spectrum approach to threat modeling and cyber security maturity evaluation to address cyber security risk systematically and ensure customers’ objectives align with their operational readiness and capabilities.