Tag: Anastasia Bottos

TULSA, Okla. and NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.—Alert 360, one of the largest providers of monitored home security and home automation solutions, and My Alarm Center, a leading provider of technologically advanced security and smart home automation solutions, announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. The combined company creates a leading operator in the highly fragmented smart security industry. Funds managed by Invesco will be the majority owners of the combined business...

Executives from My Alarm Center will be sleeping on the streets of Philadelphia Thursday night, Nov. 19, participating in Covenant House's Sleep Out: Executive Edition. Covenant House is a homeless youth shelter, headquartered in New York. It holds sleep outs Weather reports say that Philadelphia has a 100 percent chance of rain on Thursday and temperature in the low 60s, middle 50s overnight. “We look at it this way: These kids that are homeless, they don't get to pick which weather that have...

MEDIA, Pa.—Alarm Capital Alliance has expanded into an affluent new market—The Hamptons—with the purchase of a 32-year-old security company based in Southhampton, N.Y.Security Communications Audio Network Corp. (SCAN) has $170,000 in RMR and 5,000 mostly residential customers, Anastasia Bottos, ACA's chief business development officer and executive VP of acquisitions, told Security Systems News.She said SCAN has “a pretty substantial footprint in The Hamptons.” That...

Anastasia Bottos, 30Executive VP of business development and acquisitionsAlarm Capital AllianceMedia, Pa.How did you get into the security industry?I honestly wasn't on this path eight years ago when I started. When I graduated from college, I was working for a law firm and was having some second thoughts. A headhunter from Alarm Capital found me, reached out to me, and I ended up meeting with Amy Kothari and the previous investors of the company. I was just completely sold on it from day one. I...