Kevin Murray

Executive Chairman Mission Critical Partners

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Kevin Murray co-founded Mission Critical Partners (MCP), a consulting, data-integration and network and cybersecurity firm that works with public safety, justice, healthcare, transportation and utility organisations. The company is headquartered in Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, near State College. He started the firm in 2009 with two partners and was its chief executive for its first 12 years. On 1 February 2021 he handed the CEO role to Darrin Reilly and became Executive Chairman of the board, where he concentrates on business planning, long-term growth and strategy and still represents MCP with clients. MCP says he has spent nearly 30 years working in emergency communications.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Mission Critical Partners in 2009 and led the firm as CEO until February 2021.
• Became Executive Chairman of MCP’s board of directors on 1 February 2021, when Darrin Reilly succeeded him as chief executive.
• Founding member and former chairman of the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT), and a current member of its board.
• Serves on the Board of Directors of Mount Nittany Medical Center and on Penn State University’s Student Challenge board.

Professional Journey

Murray has spent most of his career in emergency communications, which MCP puts at nearly 30 years. Before MCP he worked at another firm with the two people who became his co-founders. In a 2019 interview marking MCP’s tenth anniversary, he said they had struggled there because “as the company grew, we didn’t know how to manage it”. That firm is not named in any source read.

In 2009 the three of them started Mission Critical Partners. Murray handled client management, one partner handled business development and the third handled finance. He has described the first year as a period when “we worked every day, from sunup to sundown.” The firm advises public agencies on their mission-critical communications networks and says it is vendor-agnostic. It later added data integration, cybersecurity and managed services, and has expanded beyond public safety into justice, healthcare, transportation and utilities. In the 2019 interview he said the company was run on the Rockefeller Habits management framework.

In January 2021 MCP announced that Darrin Reilly would become chief executive and that Murray would move from CEO to Executive Chairman, effective 1 February 2021. In the chairman role he focuses on business planning, long-term growth and strategy while continuing to work with clients. The company’s current board page lists him as Executive Chairman and Reilly as President and Chief Executive Officer.

Outside MCP, Murray was a founding member and former chairman of the Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies (iCERT), an industry group for emergency-response technology, and still sits on its board. In State College he serves on the board of Mount Nittany Medical Center and on Penn State University’s Student Challenge board.

Education

No education record was found in any source read for this profile.