Herb Kelsey
Project Fort Zero Lead
Herb Kelsey is the Project Fort Zero Lead in Dell Technologies Chief Technology Office, building on an extensive multi-decade career. He began his career as a GE-trained engineer and manager, and subsequently as a successful software entrepreneur, an IBM-trained architect, IBM’s first CTO for Cyber Security and the Chief Architect for a U.S. Department of Defense’s mission support agency’s global portfolio. Herb supported the Intelligence Community around the world post-9/11, designing secure clouds, secure networks and agency-wide mission infrastructures.
He was deployed to create the operational watch for our National Counter Terrorism Center and invent analytics for social media intelligence. Herb participated in joint R&D activities, including the system that became IBM Streams. In the commercial arena, Herb designed healthcare data analytics for the affordable care act, implemented cognitive solutions for IBM Watson and applied blockchain to secure software supply chains for globally distributed IoT devices.
