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Interface Systems adds new leaders to its executive team

Commercial

Interface Systems adds new leaders to its executive team

November 28, 2023SSN Staff

ST. LOUIS – Interface Systems has announced the appointment of Sean Foley to the role of chief revenue officer and Sunita Mani to the role of chief marketing officer. The company said that Foley has been instrumental in building Interface’s Customer Success organization in the past decade and spearheaded some of the largest deals in their history. In his new position, he will be responsible for leading Interface’s national and regional sales, account management, and customer...

Brent Duncan, Interface Systems, retail, Sean Foley, Sunita Mani


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Netwatch proactive in crime deterrence, finding new markets

Monitoring

Netwatch proactive in crime deterrence, finding new markets

April 10, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor

LAS VEGAS - Security trade shows offer attendees a glimpse at a number of effective monitoring solutions. One provider, Netwatch North America, touts being proactive rather than reactive. “Leave now or dispatching police kind of thing - nine times out of 10 that works,” said Netwatch’s Justin Wilmas. Wilmas is the president of Netwatch North America, and the company's voice is reaching a different kind of audience to prevent crime before it can incur costs. He spoke with...

alarm system, Artificial Intelligence (AI), asset protection, cannabis, catalytic converters, ISC West, Justin Wilmas, monitoring solutions, Netwatch North America, retail, Security, Video Analytics, video system, virtual guarding


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Suppliers

Axis acquires video analytics provider Cognimatics

June 7, 2016Martha Entwistle

STOCKHOLM—Several days after purchasing an audio company, network video giant Axis Communications on June 3 acquired Cognimatics, a video analytic provider that specializes in retail applications.Based in Lund, Sweden, Cognimatics was founded in 2003 and has 12 employees, two of whom are based in the U.S.In an email interview with Security Systems News, Axis VP Americas Fredrik Nilsson described Cognimatics as a “leading company of store-optimizing solutions targeting the retail sector.”The...

2N, Axis Communications, Citilog, Cognimatics, IP video, retail, Video Analytics


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Residential

Comtronics goes retail with alarm sales

November 13, 2013Martha Entwistle

JACKSON, Mich.—Comtronics is the latest security company to take alarm sales retail. In the first quarter of 2014, it will begin selling residential alarm systems through a Verizon retail store that the company owns.“We're pioneering an initiative to sell alarms out of our Verizon retail store,” John Campau, Comtronics CEO, told Security Systems News. The full-service security company has a separate cellular division—it owns a Verizon retail store—here in Jackson, Michigan.Campau...

alarm sales, Comtronics, John Campau, retail


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On The Editor's Desk

Vector: National accounts in play; we want them

October 6, 2011Martha Entwistle

Vector Security says national accounts customers are “in play” due to acquisitions and corporate break-ups. And, Michael Grady, Vector Security's EVP told me, in an email interview that Vector is poised to expand its national account business for a number of reasons: Vector is still privately owned and it has money in the bank (something Vector president Pam Petrow talked to me about recently when Vector got a new $225m credit facility.)  Also in Vector's favor, he said, is its move,...

ADT, Loss Prevention, Michael Grady, national accounts, Pam Petrow, retail, Vector Security


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