Leadership
Ronald “Ron” Kitchens
Founder & President Securitique™
Onica “Oni” Kitchens
Co-Founder, VP Human Resources Securitique™
Ronald Kitchens is a senior cybersecurity and federal IT leader with more than 36 years of experience supporting federal missions, defense contractor environments, cloud modernization, RMF/ATO lifecycle execution, DevSecOps, IT service management, and enterprise program delivery. His credentials include a Master's degree in Cybersecurity and Security+ certification. He has directed enterprise cybersecurity governance across cloud and mission systems, translating strategic priorities into measurable security outcomes, accountable execution, and executive-level risk reporting.
Ron advises senior leaders by translating cyber, operational, ISO, CMMC, AI governance, Zero Trust, vulnerability, POA&M, and authorization risks into clear priorities, defensible decisions, and measurable outcomes.
His experience spans NIST RMF execution, continuous monitoring, evidence strategy, assessor coordination, secure change management, threat-informed prioritization, application security, audit readiness, and security operations modernization aligned to federal standards. He has also supported AI governance, threat intelligence evaluation, cryptographic transition planning, and RMF evidence development for high-security environments.
Ron founded Securitique™ because the market needed a firm willing to publish its methodology and be held accountable to it. The EFAS™ methodology anchors every engagement in validated evidence, documented findings, remediation priorities, executive reporting, and measurable improvement — moving organizations beyond compliance activity and into provable security readiness.
Onica Kitchens is the Co-Founder and Vice President of Human Resources at Securitique™, where she leads the firm's people operations, organizational structure, and internal coordination. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art and is an accomplished artist, bringing to Securitique™ a rare combination of creative vision, visual judgment, meticulous attention to detail, and an instinct for structure that translates directly into how the firm operates and delivers.
Onica's greatest professional strength is solving people problems. Whether navigating staffing decisions, resolving communication gaps, aligning internal processes, or ensuring that every team member has what they need to perform at their best, she brings clarity and calm to the human side of a technically demanding business. Her ability to read people, anticipate friction, and build accountable working relationships is the organizational foundation that allows Securitique™ to deliver consistently.
Her background in the arts also strengthens Securitique™'s ability to present complex cybersecurity and compliance information in a clear, professional, and visually coherent manner, from client deliverables and executive reporting to the firm's public facing brand and communications.
Onica is a Co-Founder in the fullest sense, not a title but a role. She keeps the firm disciplined, responsive, and accountable so that every client engagement reflects the evidence first standard Securitique™ was built to deliver.
Chelsi Kitchens
VP Operations, Securitique™
Chelsi Kitchens is the Vice President of Operations at Securitique™, where she drives the firm's operational discipline, internal coordination, client service, and delivery execution. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Marketing and Management, a discipline that sharpened her instincts for brand presentation, audience communication, deadline management, and the operational precision required to bring complex projects from concept to completion.
Chelsi's core strength is making things run. She brings structure to environments where accuracy, follow through, and timely execution are not optional. They are the baseline. In a cybersecurity assessment firm where every engagement depends on well managed information, clear timelines, and accountable delivery, her operational discipline is not background support. It is a direct contributor to the quality of every client outcome.
Her attention to detail and communication skills strengthen Securitique™'s ability to maintain consistency across client facing materials, assessment documentation, internal processes, and delivery timelines, ensuring that what the firm promises is what clients receive.
Chelsi brings a standard of operational accountability that reflects Securitique™'s founding commitment to evidence first execution. She keeps the firm's delivery engine running at the level that rigorous assessment work demands.