Tag: Chris Black
Former Vivint CFO on the Alarm.com IPO
May 27, 2015Martha Entwistle
Alarm.com's announcement that it will go public has a lot of people talking inside and outside of the security industry. Many of the insiders, however, will not talk on the record, at least not right now.
I was interested in talking to someone who knows IPOs, understands the security industry and is familiar with Alarm.com, and I came up with Chris Black. Black is the former CFO of Vivint who helped Vivint prepare for the sale to Blackstone. He's also helped other companies go public. Today he works...
Former Vivint CFO joins Viamedia
January 7, 2013SSN Staff
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Chris Black, who recently departed as chief financial officer at Vivint, has been named to the same position at Viamedia, which is based here and specializes in selling advertising to local, regional and national advertisers on behalf of U.S. cable and telecommunications companies, utilities and municipalities, according to a Viamedia statement.
“I am very pleased to be joining [Viamedia CEO] Jeff Carter and the rest of the impressive Viamedia team,” he said in statement....
Vivint adds $50 million to financing; surpasses RMR milestone
August 6, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
PROVO, Utah—Summer-model company Vivint announced in June of that it had surpassed a $30 million milestone in RMR, putting it among the top three largest security companies in the nation. Also, the residential security and home automation provider said it had added another $50 million to its financing, bringing its total senior debt financing to $812 million.That refinancing comes on the heels of a $72 million financing boost the company announced in February. It then had $762 million in total...
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Vivint gets millions more in financing, surpasses RMR milestone
June 20, 2012Tess Nacelewicz
Ever since rebranding last year, Vivint has seemed to do nothing but grow. The latest sign of that is the announcement yesterday from the residential security and home automation provider that it has surpassed a $30 million milestone in RMR, putting it among the top three largest security companies in the nation.
Also, the Provo, Utah-based summer-model company said, it has added another $50 million to its financing, bringing its total senior debt financing to $812 million.
That refinancing comes...
APX Alarm secures $565m in new financing, brings new lenders to market
October 7, 2010Martha Entwistle
PROVO, Utah—APX Alarm this week announced it had upped its debt financing by $125 million to a grand total of $565 million. In the process, it brought on two new lenders: Bank of America and, a new lender in the security space, Barclays Private Credit Partners (BPCP).
“BPCP finds the alarm monitoring space attractive given the contractual, predictable and recurring nature of the revenue stream, as well as the solid collateral coverage afforded secured lenders,” J. Brent Humphries,...