Hearn at helm

LONG BRANCH, N.J.--Scott Hearn said his goal as the new president of Cooper Notification is to make the company “the preferred global notification solutions provider, fostering a safer environment while innovating notification technologies.” Hearn came onboard in November from Cooper Lighting, where he was vice president of business development. Before that, he ran operations for a $4.5 billion unit of HVAC provider Trane. He began his career at GE, where he spent 15 years in a variety of roles. Hearn replaces Ken Camarco. In early December, Hearn said he’d spent the few weeks since his official start “in front of customers.” Cooper Notification, a division of Cooper Industries, comprises several businesses that manufacture and sell notification solutions for fire, security, hazardous areas, mass notification, voice evacuation, and industrial signaling applications. Mass notification is a newer and growing market sector and Cooper is one of the companies that provides a multi-tiered solution, what Hearn calls a “broad, yet flexible mass notification solution.” Cooper’s strengths in the market, he says, are its “innovation and customer focus.” The company intends to grow its Mass Notification System channel partner program (On Dec. 4, it added ArCom Systems of Arkansas and announced it would launch a mass notification and demonstration tour in Arkansas in this month.) Cooper will focus on “key markets like military, higher education and government, where our expertise and experience can leverage into expanded solutions.”