May Mitchell

An award-winning marketing executive with more than 25 years in cybersecurity, Mitchell leads the company’s global marketing strategy, branding, messaging, communications, demand generation, and partner marketing development efforts. Her specific goals include scaling new business growth and increasing customer retention by aligning and executing with sales and partners to deliver value for next generation MDR services.

Mitchell’s storied career includes senior- and executive-level marketing roles with Symantec, Cylance, IronKey, Forcepoint, and McAfee. Her achievements include launching over 200 products; building strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Cisco, RSA, and other top IT vendors; and participating in more than 30 successful mergers and acquisitions. Mitchell comes to Open Systems from iboss, where she served as senior vice president of Global Marketing for the privately held Zero Trust cloud provider. Prior to iboss, Mitchell was the vice president of marketing and global channel for Cylance, a fast-growing AI-driven endpoint prevention solution acquired by BlackBerry for more than $1.4 billion.

Mitchell has received numerous accolades recognizing her successes. She was named to CRN’s Power 100 Women in the Channel for each of the past 10 years, included in CyberScoop’s list of the Top 50 Women in Cybersecurity, and received the Top 50 Marketer Award from OnCon.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University and completed Engineering Management courses at Santa Clara University.