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Rose Wilson is an attorney in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s Wealth and Succession Planning group, which focuses on providing estate planning services to high net worth individuals and closely held business owners. Rose has over 15 years of experience in the estate planning area, and has assisted clients with a broad range of issues, including …

Mr. Eyring has served as Vivint’s Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer since November 2012, and oversees the Vivint Innovation Center, which includes the company’s technology, product development, new business development, and strategy functions. Prior to Vivint, Mr. Eyring worked at Innosight, a global strategy and innovation consulting firm, from 2001 to 2012. He held many …

Michael Marks is the Co-Founder and President if Perennial Software, makers of SedonaOffice and AlarmBiller, the leading platforms for security companies of all sizes to run and operate their business. Besides being active in the security industry for over 30 years, Michael is also a yoga instructor, avid tennis player, skier and cyclist.

Jason Christensen has spent the last 20 years of his career in the security industry. In 1998 he was hired as VP of Eclipse Marketing and started a “home security” division for the company. For two years he built this business and successfully oversaw all sales and operations, generating over 10,000 accounts. In 2000 he …

Megan Thompson is a shareholder with the Pittsburgh office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.  She focuses her practice on corporate finance and financial services, including secured and unsecured loan transactions, asset-based financing, syndicated financing and acquisition financing.  She is an active member of the firm’s Security Alarm Group, regularly representing lenders in the security …

Mike is Managing Partner of Hawk Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding Hawk Capital in 2014, Mike served as the President of LifeShield Security, the home security division of DIRECTV. Mike acquired a significant equity stake in LifeShield in December 2009 and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer until June 2013 when he sold …

Ken Mooney is a Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager with Citizens Bank, where he serves as a senior member of The Security Finance Group. The security alarm and related life safety industries have become an area of increasing focus at Citizens and the Group currently has close to $650 million in capital committed to …

Bryan Cipoletti is the President of Guardian Protection, part of the Armstrong Group, a family-owned and operated organization founded in 1946 with over 2,000 employees nationwide. The Armstrong Group is a diverse collection of companies that includes monitored residential and commercial security, cable telecommunications services, commercial real estate development, electronic circuit board manufacturing services, HVAC, …

Tomer Yosef-Or is a Partner at Abry Partners a sector focused private equity firm that specializes in media, communication and business and information services companies. Tomer, joined Abry in 2005. Since then, he has originated, supervised, and sold numerous companies in Abry’s targeted sectors. Areas of focus have included, security, medical alert, remote patient monitoring, …

Robin Esterson is currently the managing partner of Vanwall Holdings, LLC, an investment management business focused on private equity and real estate related opportunities. Prior to founding Vanwall Holdings LLC, Mr. Esterson was a partner at TowerBrook Capital Partners LP, a firm focused on private equity investments in Europe and North America. Earlier in his …