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Trey Alter is the President and owner of Dynamark Monitoring, a monitoring technology and services company focused on the life safety industry. Dynamark provides wholesale monitoring, software solutions, and related services to dealers across the United States. He has led the buyout of several companies within the security industry and has led all financing and …

Patrick joined Seacoast Capital in 2012 and works on sourcing, underwriting and managing Seacoast’s non-control junior capital investment in middle market companies. He has worked with companies in a variety of industries including: security; commercial services; healthcare; and consumer. Prior to joining Seacoast, Mr. Gengoux spent six years at Pacific Capital Bank in Santa Barbara, …

Eric Garner is the President of Pye Barker Fire & Safety’s Alarm Division.  He prides himself in being an operator first and an mergers and acquisitions guy second.  Eric’s family business, Mountain Alarm, merged with Pye Barker in December 2021. Throughout 2022, Eric and his team acquired twelve alarm companies. Those twelve alarm companies have …

Brandon Savage is the Head of Solution Enablement at VOZIQ, an AI-powered predictive customer retention solution provider.  He is also an Edgereley Outstanding Instructor Fellow in the College of Business Administration at Kansas State University and has taught Operations and Supply Chain Management, Business Ethics, Business Strategy, Project Management, and Business Presentation Skills.  He has …

Rob leads Stealth’s global strategy, finance, technology, talent management, and operations. Under his leadership, the company has grown to become the industry leader in remote monitoring services. Rob has been profiled in numerous publications such as Forbes, Bloomberg, BNN, Reuters, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Security, and Profit. Prior to Stealth, Rob worked in strategy …

Joe Thompson is the Senior Vice President at Barnes Associates. He is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Joe has extensive experience as a leader in the Security Alarm industry, with over 20 years of lending experience, over 260 borrowers, and commitments of over $2.5 billion. Joe is focused on the capital markets and helping clients …

Robert Holland is an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney. His practice includes advising a wide range of clients, including in the medical alert, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries, on the latest privacy and data security developments, most importantly the state consumer privacy regimes. Robert has been intensely focused on the California Consumer Privacy Act and …

Ralph Gregory has over 25 years of experience in the electronic security industry and currently is the president of Security Force, Inc.  Ralph served in the U.S. Navy and received an honorable discharge upon completing his 4-year career in 1985. From 1985 to 1995, he was employed as an electronic contractor for NASA where he …

Curtis Kindred is the founder and CEO of ONIT Smart Home.  Curtis started in the industry as a door to door sales rep for a Monitronics dealer in 2008.  After that dealer succumbed to the recession in 2009, Curtis decided to open his own business in the industry. ONIT Smart Home, formerly known as American Defense …

Rush has been CEO of Eyewitness since 2011. Prior to Eyewitness, Rush was a Partner at Channelstone Capital Partners, a firm that bought and built lower-middle market businesses. Rush began his private-sector career in investment banking and then derivatives origination and structuring for JPMorgan Chase Securities before founding and running Epache, Inc., a knowledge management …