Michael Kelley

About Michael Kelley

Highly effective leader with proven success driving business growth through excellent management, sales, technical, operational, and product development skills• Extensive experience working in fast growing companies developing teams and processes focused on selling and delivering products and solutions to financial services, large enterprise, and multinationals• Proven history of developing, communicating, and selling compelling products and solutions• Strong communicator of technology and business value to all levels of an organization• Proven track record of understanding customer needs and positioning solutions around technology to demonstrate and deliver value directly associated with those needs• Consistent record of implementing process and reporting to focus efforts and drive business efficiencies

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, Worldwide Technical Solutions

   Palo Alto Networks

   Aug 2025 — Present

   Worldwide Technical Sales - Solutions Consultants, Domain Consultants, Architects, Academy

Education

• Auburn University Harbert College of Business

  Aviation Management, Magna Cum Laude, Engineering, Business

  1990 — 1993

• Kennesaw State University

  Business

  1988 — 1990

Skills

• Information Security
• Solution Selling
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Itil
• Unified Communications
• Vendor Management
• Voip
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• IT Service Management
• Networking
• Pre-Sales
• Project Management
• Sales
• Solution Architecture
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Managed Services
• Integration
• Saas
• Management
• Outsourcing
• Wireless
• Network Security
• Product Management
• Strategy
• Professional Services
• Service Delivery
• Network Architecture
• Network Design
• Cisco Technologies
• Ethernet
• Leadership
• Strategic Partnerships
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Telecommunications
• Virtualization
• Ip
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• IT Strategy