Mike Del Secolo is a former Fortune 100 Executive and a strategic advisor for Mantissa Group, a strategy consulting firm serving the CIO executive and their extended leadership teams. Mike is an industry leading expert on wide variety of strategic matters affecting the CIO, CTO, and their leadership teams. He has deep expertise helping leaders with their technology roadmaps, as well as focusing on executable technology, security, and emerging technology strategies.
Mike’s previous experiences at multiple large organizations has resulted in a philosophy of understanding the technology landscape and driving business results by developing technology strategies that complement business goals. He has accomplished this by creating high performing technical teams leveraging both internal and external talent. Among his technical accomplishments include the delivery of technology roadmaps and executing a multi-cloud strategy that optimized delivery to the business while reducing technical debt and strengthening security posture. He was responsible for implementing global networks in multiple companies and has led the consolidation of 28 data centers.
Mr. Del Secolo is a seasoned leader with broad executive experiences across industries and has served in numerous advisory roles in companies such as Cisco, MCI, Actian and AT&T. Mike’s most recent experience was as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at New York Life. He was accountable for New York Life’s engineering, technology roadmap and chaired the Architecture Review Board. Mike was responsible for the creation of the CTSO position to focus on security initiatives to include Identity Access Management, cloud security engineering, and first line defense. He was part of the senior leadership team that drove innovation and led positive transformations in companywide process reengineering projects in ITO and ASM (Sourcing), Human Resource (SaaS) and Finance (SAP) initiatives. In his previous role at ADP Mike provided strategic leadership for technology, security, and SaaS business initiatives. He achieved synergy by merging hosting, data center and brokerage teams into a shared services technology team.
Mike created his legacy as technology architect by pioneering $10B SaaS business model and built a world-class technology team that continues to deliver results today. Mr. Del Secolo earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Pratt Institute and is currently serving as a strategic advisor for security startups Prismo Systems and SOVY.