Erik Mikkelsen

Erik Mikkelsen is the Head of Corporate Development and Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at ECAMSECURE, a high-tech video surveillance company owned by GardaWorld, a global security leader with over 130,000 employees. He is also the Managing Partner of Auxo Management LP, a private investment firm he co-founded in 2010, and President of Norwind Capital, a personal investment company he founded in 2019.

From 2011 to 2024, Erik served as President & Chief Revenue Officer at Stealth Monitoring, a high-tech video surveillance company acquired by GardaWorld in 2024. Under his leadership, Stealth grew from 55 to over 2,000 employees, achieving a 30x increase in revenue. Erik also raised more than $300 million in debt and equity financing and led five acquisitions during his tenure.

Prior to his roles at Stealth and Auxo, Erik gained extensive experience in private equity, investment banking, and start-ups. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in over $30 billion in executed transactions, ranging from under $1 million to several billion dollars. He previously worked at Regent Properties, a real estate private equity firm in Los Angeles, and in the Leveraged Finance Investment Banking group at Barclays Capital in New York. Earlier in his career, Erik co-founded Ink Media, where he co-led business development and secured over 50 advertising clients.

Erik graduated with Distinction from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, earning an Honours Business Administration (HBA) degree. He has received the Ivey Emerging Leaders Award for Entrepreneurship and the Class of 2006 Ivey Entrepreneurship Ambassador Award. He currently serves on the Executive Committee at the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at Western University, where he was previously Vice Chairman, and is a member of the Advisory Board at the Ivey Business School. Erik also completed Executive Education in Artificial Intelligence for Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT CSAIL.

As an active investor and advisor, Erik is involved with several start-ups and remains committed to community initiatives. In 2013, he co-founded CAMH Engage, a professional group supporting strategy and fundraising for the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation. He is a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) and has lectured at business schools in Canada and the United States.  Erik was born in London, England and grew up in Western Canada where he was an ice hockey and lacrosse player.