Integrated Biometrics, a provider of certified fingerprint identity solutions, announced June 3 the addition of Charles Johnson to its sales staff. Johnson is a security industry veteran with more than 12 years of experience and had previously worked at Integrated Biometrics in 2006.
COPS Monitoring on May 28 announced Jim Combs has joined the COPS Monitoring team as account manager, working out of the company’s New Jersey office. Combs comes to COPS with an abundance of industry experience. Before COPS, Combs had seven years experience as a sales manager first for First Edge Security & Technologies and then SST (Security Systems and Technologies).
Stanley Convergent Security Solutions announced May 28 it has named Jim Kopplin as vice president, field operations. He will assume responsibility for all Stanley Convergent Security Solutions field branch operations.
Bosch Security Systems on May 26 announced the appointment of four sales managers. Lloyd Apricio handles sales of the Intrusion, Fire and Access Control/Systems (IFAS) portfolios in the Southwest, including Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Southern Nevada and Wyoming. Holley Hunt manages sales of the IFAS portfolios in Southern California. Joe Scardino holds responsibility for the IFAS portfolios in the New York Metro region. Mark Land now manages sales of Bosch video surveillance products and systems in Central/Eastern Ohio.
Five Questions
PSA Security Network, the world’s largest electronic security cooperative, announced in May that PSA stockholders had elected Mike Kobelin, director of sales for Aronson Security
Group (ASG), as chairman of the board. He will serve a two-year term. The elections were held at a shareholder meeting during the 2009 PSA-TEC in St. Charles, Ill. The eight-member board represents more than 200 member companies, which are responsible for more than $1.7 billion in aggregate annual sales of electronic security and life safety installations nationwide. Security Systems News caught up with Mike in May and asked him five questions.
Mike Kobelin
Where did you grow up?
In Roseburg, Oregon, which in the 1960s was known as the timber capital of America.
It’s not the timber capital of America any more?
No, I’m afraid the spotted owls and the tree huggers all but shut down the timber and lumber industry in Roseburg.
Where do you live now?
I migrated to Eugene, Oregon, to go to the University of Oregon. It was the end of the Vietnam War and this was a very leftist, liberal, anti-Vietnam place. After college, I ended up in Portland where I have lived ever since.
Is Portland as liberal as Eugene?
Yes, thankfully I’m here to protect the conservatives … I can hold my own.
So you’re protecting the conservatives. What else do you like about Portland?
Oregon has had a lot of controlled growth over the past 20 years… Portland is a great, great place for business. For a family, it’s got everything. It’s like a mini-San Francisco. It’s one hour to the beach, one hour to the ski mountains, and you can fish in downtown Portland and catch salmon. I’ll never leave Portland.
—Martha Entwistle
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July 6-8 ASIS Int’l, Physical Security: Advanced Applications and Technology. This intensive, three-day program focuses on emerging trends, operating procedures, and the application of technology to meet the increased level of security needed by today’s commercial, industrial, and government enterprises. Hyatt Regency, St. Louis. For more information, call 703-519- 6298 or visit www.asisonline.org.
application ideas and installation examples. Vicon Headquarters, Long Island N.Y. For more information, call (631) 952-2288 or go visit www.vicon-cctv.com.
July 14-16 AXIS Communications Course: 3-day Fundamentals. The course provides advanced training on system solutions and design. Kansas City, Mo. For more information visit www.axis.com/us/acad-emy/ reg_free.htm
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July 14 Vicon seminars. Classes will run from 9 a.m. to noon. The events, which are open to technology specifying A&Es, security integrators, Vicon end-users and prospective end-users, will introduce attendees to the opportunities and benefits that can be derived from integrated, IP-based video surveillance and access control systems. The sessions will include discussion of the underlying technologies, system design considerations,
July 28-30 Americas’ Fire & Security Expo,
Miami Beach Convention Center, Fla. The event features state-of-the-art fire, security and life-safety products, systems and services and offers more than 50 sessions designed to cover several market segments. For more information visit www.americas-fireandsecurity.com.
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