Active Members

George De Marco

DECO Ventures LLC

Managing Partner

949-300-5006

gdemarco@decoventures.com

Consultant

George De Marco began his life-long entrepreneurial journey in 1981. Founder and CEO of Greater Alarm, George brought together a team of highly-motivated individuals that achieved nationwide recognition for growth, innovation and customer experience in the electronic security and life safety and custom electronics industry. After selling his company in 2004, George was asked to help kickstart the Electronic Security Expo (ESX) in 2007, a conference focused on security and life safety industry, and continues to serve as its chairman.

In 2011, he began his consultancy journey, founding DECO Ventures LLC. Today, his firm helps entrepreneurs and executives think differently about innovation, customer experience and growth.

George received numerous business awards over the years for his volunteer service in the electronic security and life safety industry, including a life-time achievement award from the California Alarm Association, the Sara E. Jackson Award from the Electronic Security Association, and the Industry Hall of Fame from Security Sales & Integration magazine.

A published author of industry articles, keynote speaker, and moderator, George continues his entrepreneurial journey and his life-long quest to keep learning from exceptional businesses and people.

Patrick Doyle

The Elm Consulting Group International LLC.

Managing Director

203-645-6204

pdoyle@elmgroup.com

Mr. Doyle is a Managing Director of The Elm Consulting Group International LLC. The Elm Consulting Group International LLC (ELM) is a specialized international management consultancy, focused on supporting our clients’ development and implementation of effective health, safety and environmental (HSE) management programs. ELM provides a limited number of clients with expert technical advice on health, safety and environmental issues, including HSE management system development, assessment, and implementation. In addition, ELM supports client HSE compliance and management system audit programs through participation as an audit team member or audit team leader.

The scope of client services focuses support for client needs at both domestic and international locations. Working side-by-side with our clients, ELM consultants assist large multi-national corporations and individual operations to deploy leading edge HSE systems and procedures. With offices in Connecticut, California, Kentucky, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Jakarta, and a long list of HSE consultants globally on which to draw, ELM is able to provide our clients with superior attention and support with local knowledge and awareness.

Mr. Doyle has over thirty years of international experience supporting clients’ development and implementation of effective HSE management programs.

George Bish

Ring Protect Inc.

Director of Licensing

704-784-4776

gjbish@gmail.com

George Bish’s interest in technology stems from his early involvement with computer science class and the A/V club in high school. He continued this journey in the U.S. Navy as an Electronics Technician, and transitioned to a bench repair then installations in the A/V industry. George’s introduction to the world of security and life safety came when he was working as a Nurse Call system designer and installer. After learning that they needed a way to ensure that residents did not exit the building George designed an access control system using Radio Shark parts. It was so successful that the owner began selling the system. He later took a position with Rollins Protective Services in 1989 where he officially embarked on his Life Safety journey.

Since then George has held positions with Brinks Home Security, Entergy Security, ADT, The System Depot, SWS LLC, and MasTec AT. He has his NICET Level IV in Fire Alarm Systems and is a Senior Instructor with ESA’s National Training School. George is now the Director of Licensing for Ring Protect Inc (an Amazon Company) providing strategic direction to ensure that the company is compliant with all regulatory requirements related to Security & Life Safety.

George has dedicated his career to promoting the advancement of the Security, Fire, and Life Safety industry. He began working at the state level with NCBFAA and progressed to the National Level serving on NFPA 70, 72, and 730/731 as well as various ESA, TMA, and SIA committees. George has received many industry awards for his stewardship, but the two he is most proud of are the Sara E. Jackson Memorial Award by ESA in 2015 and the SBCA President’s Award in 2016.

George Strom

Intertek

Business Development Director of IOT

978-635-8614

george.strom@intertek.com

Board Member

George Strom is Business Development Director of IOT at Intertek, a FTSE 100 Company. George has worked with medical device manufacturers around the world to help them meet all of their assurance, testing, inspection, and certification needs. George’s 20+ years in the Quality Assurance & Safety arena bring insight into the unique challenges of launching a product in today’s Connected World. Prior to Intertek, George worked in Sales and Marketing within the Computer & Office Automation Industry. He is a proud alumnus of U-Mass Lowell and lives in the Greater Boston Area

Michael Gips

Global Insights in Professional Security

Managing Principal

mike@gipsinsights.com

Board Member – February 2020

Michael Gips, CPP, CSyP, CAE, is the principal of Global Insights in Professional Security, LLC, a firm that helps security providers assert thought leadership and heighten brand awareness in a crowded marketplace. It conducts research and prepares reports and presentations on security topics, and it builds and harnesses an encyclopedic library of security incidents for planning and training purposes on behalf of corporations and government agencies. Michael was previously Chief Global Knowledge Officer at ASIS International, serving as an internal subject matter expert and researcher, public speaker, chief of Editorial Services, member of the ASIS Foundation Research Committee, and key resource to the CSO Center for Leadership & Development. Before that, as an editor for ASIS’s Security Management magazine, he wrote hundreds of articles and columns on virtually every topic in security. In his early career he was an attorney who worked on death-penalty cases.

Mike has a B.A. in history and Spanish from Tufts University, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. In the security arena, he holds ASIS’s Certified Protection Professional designation and the Chartered Security Professional designation, bestowed by the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals. He also has multiple certificates in security and business subjects, including from Penn’s Wharton School of Business, Tel Aviv University International, and the IE Business School in Madrid.

Reitman Consulting Group, Inc.

Managing Principal

https://www.reitman.us/

817-698-9999

MReitman@Reitman.us

Board Member – January 2020

Reitman Consulting provides financial consulting, valuation, general accounting services, transactional services, tax compliance, and tax representation services to security alarm companies in twenty-three states, Mexico, Canada and the EEC. Mr. Reitman is a frequent lecturer to Alarm Industry trade groups and associations and was selected as the Person of the Year 2019 by the Texas Burglar and Fire Alarm Association, received the Mark Schubert Associate of the Year Award from the California Alarm Association, and was to the Electronic Security Industry Hall of Fame in 2017.

Twenty-four years in the Security Alarm industry. Prior to forming Reitman Consulting, Mr. Reitman was Vice President of Acquisitions for Select Security, and Director of Acquisitions and Business Development for Protection One Alarm Monitoring, where he participated in more than $400 million of alarm account transactions. He began his career at Coopers and Lybrand, Certified Public Accountants where he was an audit manager with the Emerging Business Practice Group.

University of Texas at Austin – Batchelor of Business Administration – Accounting 1981

University of North Texas – Master of Science in Accounting and Applied Economics 1990

Either he or Reitman Consulting Group. are members of the AICPA, Central Station Alarm Association (consultant member), Electronic Security Association, Security Industry Association (SIA), The Monitoring Association (TMA), California Alarm Association, Texas Burglar and Fire Alarm Association, Arizona Burglar and Fire Alarm Association, Nevada Security Association, Burglar and Fire Alarm Association of Michigan, Southern California Alarm Association, Global Security Alliance, and many others

Darryl Engel

Intertek

http://www.intertek.com/

224-213 4466

darryl.engel@intertek.com ‎‎

Member April 2019

Intertek is an industry leader with more than 44,000 employees in 1,000 locations in over 100 countries. We deliver Total Quality Assurance expertise 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with our industry-winning processes and customer-centric culture. Whether your business is local or global, we can help to ensure that your products meet quality, health, environmental, safety, and social accountability standards for virtually any market around the world. We hold extensive global accreditations, recognitions, and agreements, and our knowledge of and expertise in overcoming regulatory, market, and supply chain hurdles is unrivalled.

Intertek can sharpen your competitive edge

With reliable testing and certification for faster regulatory approval
Through rapid, efficient entry to virtually any market in the world
With Total Quality Assurance across your supply chain
Through innovative leadership in meeting social accountability standards
By reducing cost and minimizing health, safety, and security risks
By becoming a TRUSTED BRAND

Kirk MacDowell

MacGuard Security Advisors Inc. President

503.744.0720

kirk.macdowell@macguard.com

Founding Member

Consultant

Kirk founded MacGuard Security Advisors, Inc. providing consulting services to the security alarm industry. Areas of expertise include strategic growth, operational excellence, diversification, special services, succession planning, M&A mentoring and planning. Also served as expert witness in California and Nevada and holds an active US Government Security Clearance, providing contract investigations to the US Government.

Founded his own security company receiving the Best New Business Award by the Pacific Palisades Chamber of Commerce, led a Security Distributing and Marketing (SDM) top100 security alarm service provider. Has served in senior leadership roles at General Electric (GE) Security, United Technologies (UTC) and Alarm.com.

Past Board of Director of the Security Industry Association (SIA), and current Board member of the Security Industry Alarm Collation (SIAC), The Monitoring Association (TMA), Chairman of the Alarm Industry Research and Education Foundation (AIREF) and past president of the Los Angeles County Burglar and Fire Alarm Association (LABFAA)

Quoted contributor to Security Distributing and Marketing magazine, Security Systems News, Security Stock Watch, Electronical Contractor magazine, Security Sales and Integration. Appeared on Life Time’s television series Designing Spaces and Project Homeward Bound episodes. Speaker/moderator at Securing New Ground, Electronic Security Expo, TMA’s operations conference, ESA’s Leadership forum and numerous Industry state and local associations.

Patrick Straw Executive Director

Canadian Security Association – CANASA

http://canasa.org/CANASA/EN/

905-513-0622 ext. 222

pstraw@canasa.org

Founding Member

Board Member July 2019

Established in 1977 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the security industry.

Established in 1977, the Canadian Security Association (CANASA) is a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the security industry. We protect and promote the interests of our members and the safety of all Canadians through education, advocacy, and leadership.

We are a recognized voice of the security industry in Canada and have a growing membership of more than 1000 member organizations in 10 Regions across the country representing all segments of the industry.

We support our members through a comprehensive network of services, including:

high quality security education;
leading industry trade shows;
government relations and advocacy work;
marketing and communications; and
the latest industry information and news

Mission
To create and maintain a professional environment for our members with the tools and standards to enhance the SAFETY and SECURITY of all Canadians.

Vision
CANASA is the recognized voice of security in Canada.

Albert Janjigian

Expedeum

617-834-3355

asj@expedeum.com

Founding Member

Consultant

Provides high-level consultative support to manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and others, seeking to enter, expand, or enhance their position in the electronic security industry – U.S. or global.

Background includes significant CEO-level experience building and operating large multi-national players in this market space and years of successful consulting projects.

Experience: Reach includes U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Particularly strong market research capabilities for enterprises seeking to couple formal research with marketing.

Worked with start-ups developing business plans, providing funding activities; mature companies expanding existing ventures or enter new markets; and management, boards of directors strengthening operations or engaging in merger/acquisition initiatives.

Also served as Past President of the Security Industry Association, Co-chair of the TMA, (previously the CSAA) as International Outreach committee, and Advisory consultant for TMA membership committee.

Becky Lane

LaneWorks

703-898-7415

beckyl@globallifesafetyalliance.org

Founding Member

President of LaneWorks, llc., a sales and project management company.

Years of sales experience in the electronic security association industry, as well as the printing and marketing communications industries.

Past Vice President of Membership and Programs for The Monitoring Association, TMA, (formerly the Central Station Monitoring Association). Becky not only grew the membership to over a million dollars in dues revenue, but helped develop the Contract Monitoring Council, expand the Proprietary Monitoring Council, and lead the creation of the International Outreach Forum. She also served as staff liaison for the ASAP program.

Prior to her 10-year tenure with TMA, Becky was the top printing sales representative with sales over six million dollars year to year for S&S Graphics serving Fortune 500 companies.

Skilled in project management, budgeting, operations management, business development and marketing. She holds certification from the ANSI Standards organization.

Becky is a big picture thinker and stays the course on a company’s mission and vision, no matter the size. She introduces new products and services, and is especially skilled on building valued relationships.

Carol Enman

Marketing and Communications

Enman Strategic Business Initiatives LLC

http://whengrowthmatters.com/

207-829-6047

carole@globallifesafetyalliance.org

Founding Member

Board Member

Is the CEO of Enman Strategic Business Initiatives LLC, helping to grow security companies as an independent consultant. She has helped turn around struggling organizations, improving customers’ go to market strategies, their internal processes, marketing, sales focus, and overall growth and profitability.

Carol also has decades of experience expanding organizations, as well as a variety of security organizations in the US and overseas.

She entered the industry to take the helm of Security Systems News, in its startup phase, developing it into the industry’s most respected and lucrative security publication, while creating its related products, events, and websites.

She went on to become the Director of Business Development for Securitas Systems U.S. as they spun off from Securitas Guarding Group in Sweden, into a publicly traded billion-dollar international company. Working directly with the US president, the CTO in Sweden, sitting on the international marketing committee and other international branches around the globe.

Carol worked with Axis Communications as their director of Business Development for healthcare and education, before returning to publishing with Cygnus Publishing, helping them to reorganize their slumping Security Dealer magazine.

For six years she grew DICE Corp., after the owner returned from an extended hiatus. Expand the company’s annual profits by multiple millions of dollars. Establishing their hosted solutions offering, while promoting their telecom company, IPtelX sales.

Michael Slossar

Licensing Manager

RING

https://ring.com

856-261-5195

Michaels@Globallifesafetyalliance.org

Founding Member

Board Member

Treasurer

Over 30 years’ experience in the Security Industry. 18 years with Vector Security Field Operations

Licensing and Compliance Manager with DIRECTV. Stood Up DIRECTV/LifeShield creating a licensing and compliance program where none existed.

Worked with AT&T Digital Life assisting in transition from DIRECTV as well as Risk Management and Licensing

Participated in the re-write and passing of Rules and Regulations in North Carolina, Delaware and Maryland Easing or eliminating licensing hurdles

Holds multiple State Licenses in Low Voltage and Security

Risk Manager at Ring/Amazon Licensing and Compliance

Committee member NFPA 72 SIG-SSS

NICET III Certified Fire Michael Slossar Sr , Manager Licensing

Jack O’Brien – Acting CEO

President of Jack O’Brien International

Jack O’brien International Consulting Services

561-797-7095

jacko@globallifesafetyalliance.org

Founding Member

Consultant

Has over 30 years of experience in the security industry. 12 years as a general and regional manager at Wells Fargo, later consolidating Wells Fargo’s central stations before joining ADT as general manager of the largest Customer Monitoring Center in the greater New York region.

He was the director of the Rollins National Center in Atlanta, acquired by Ameritech in 1997. He was named Director of one of the largest centers in the U.S.
He subsequently joined Siemens as the Director of North American Services designing and building a state-of-the-art international contact center in Dallas TX and mirrored center in Washington D.C.

As an international consultant, he has traveled extensively working on security and life safety operations in the U.S., Central and South America, Europe and Asia.
Prior to joining Ackerman Security as Chief Operating Ofﬁcer, he was the Vice President of Operations at Security Networks for ﬁve years before being acquired by Ascent Media, parent of Monitronics, called the deal of the year in 2013 by SDM magazine.

He was the co-chair of The Monitoring Association, previously (CSAA) International Committee and the Insurance Industry Liaison Committee.

Julio Fumagalli Macrae – President

IRIS – INSTITUTO RECTOR DE LA INDUSTRIA DE LA SEGURIDAD

juliom@globallifesafetyalliance.org

Founding Member

Board Member

Julio Fumagalli Macrae’s wide ranging professional experience, and strong team approach inspires exceptional performance in industries affecting the United States, Canada, Argentina and South America.

He has enhanced organizational effectiveness, led change initiatives, and implemented creative solutions and strategies. He is self-directed and results oriented. He has led inter-cultural environment integration with a style and vision that integrates global, regional and local issues.

In summary, he has a record of success in Security, Health, Safety and Environmental Management.

Peter Raymond

P Raymond, Inc.

609-915-1719

pfraymond@aol.com

Founding Member

Board Member

Consultant

Has been in the security industry for 40 years.

Starting his career in the security space working with Wells-Fargo Security. Peter was tasked with evaluating the operations of prospective acquisitions, where he was a key member in completing these projects. Wells Fargo became the second largest security company in the industry, growing from four branches to fifty-eight locations throughout the U.S., including owning a manufacturer of fire products, before the organization was sold.

Peter moved on to be the President, of Security Protective Services, a regional alarm company, for a decade before selling this company.

Given Peter’s expertise in all aspects of management, he moved on to consulting with American companies, expanding their operations in the U.S., and other countries around the globe. For twenty-nine years, Peter has been consulting in the U.S, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia, as an international expert on the processes and procedure to start and manage company expansions throughout the globe.

Peter delivers services to large national and international manufactures, suppliers, alarm companies, security design companies, and monitoring services platforms.

Tom Connaughton

Connaughton Group LLC (CG LLC)

http://www.connaughtongroup.com/

732-841-2119

Founding Member

Consultant

President & CEO of Connaughton Group LLC (CG LLC), a product integrity consultancy firm supporting regulatory, compliance, and market access strategies for the global manufacturer or operator. With nearly 20 years of experience in global product certification and regulatory affairs operating across multiple verticals, namely the Life Safety & Security and Hazardous Locations services.

He brings executive skills, experience, and creative thinking to companies seeking to enhance their value proposition, achieve commercial objectives, and maintain compliance to the applicable codes and standards to reduce risk.

Prior to CG LLC, Tom was the Global Director of Life Safety & Security, Hazardous Locations and HVACR business lines at Intertek Group Plc (ETL certification mark). He was responsible for global business development, approvals and accreditations per laboratory, per vertical in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Italy, France, China, Middle East (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E.), Thailand and India. As a member of the global senior leadership team, he enjoyed working with colleagues to implement growth and compliance strategies to expand market share, diversification of the services portfolio and to drive brand recognition.

Tom believes in active industry participation and served on the NFPA 72 (National Fire Code), Chapter 26 (Supervising Stations), the Monitoring Associations (standards and marketing subcommittees), and was the company representative to NEMA (North American Electrical Manufacture’s Association working to advance the life safety and security industries emerging technologies, business development opportunities, and investments.