Tag: Tim LeBlanc

BAY CITY, Mich.—DICE Corporation and Tristar Monitoring stepped in to help a central station that was without power and battling flooding due to Tropical Storm Isaias.“We got a call from DICE asking if we were willing to assist,” said Tim LeBlanc, president and co-founder of Tristar Monitoring. “My immediate response was, ‘Absolutely.’”Tristar had been in the same position before, aiding a central station in Florida for two months, while the company returned to full operations....

YARMOUTH, Maine—Wholesale monitoring centers use a variety of methods to grow their revenue and account bases, but dealer relations and support is the key to success, according to several executives who spoke to Security Systems News.Affiliated Monitoring's VP Daniel Oppenheim put it this way: “We are in a business, much like equipment manufacturers, where our success is dependent on the success of our dealers.”Third party central stations grow by adding more dealers or supporting...

CORONA, Calif.—TriStar Monitoring, based here, may be a newcomer to the central station space, but the company's president and founder, Tim LeBlanc, is anything but. LeBlanc, who went live with the company in February 2013, is a 38-year veteran of the industry who spent 18 years at Huntington Beach, Calif.-based General Monitoring Services, where he served as president until 2012.With a tenure of that length, starting a business in the security industry becomes far less of challenge, LeBlanc...