Full Name
Deryck Mitchelson
Job Title
Director of National Digital and Information Security
Organisation
NHS National Services Scotland (NSS)
Speaker Bio
Deryck Mitchelson is a highly experienced digital executive with a global technical, product development and security background through small, medium and FTSE 100 companies.
A proven track record of transforming distributed businesses through high periods of growth and change. Prior to working at NSS, Deryck was Global CISO and CIO for Wood Mackenzie where he delivered re-platforming of legacy enterprise systems (B2B and B2C) onto the public cloud. He previously worked as Chief Operating Officer for brightsolid and Group CIO of media giant DC Thomson.
Deryck has full responsibility for National digital and security services for NHS Scotland including managing the National NHS Information Security team. In this capacity he acts as Senior Information Risk Officer for NSS.
Deryck Mitchelson