Inside Access Control

In this episode of Inside Access Control, we catch up with Chris Fine, CEO, and Founder of Integrative Technologies to discuss the phase changes we are seeing and will continue to see in physical access control as we come out of the Coronavirus crisis.   Integrative Technologies is a boutique consulting and strategy practice focused on helping technology-centric enterprises, startups, and investors identify and capture new value. He is the former Vice President and Senior Engineer of Goldman Sachs which gives him a great perspective on what end-users have historically looked for an needed from their enterprise access control systems.  Chris also serves as a mentor to the TechStars IoT and FinTech Startup Accelerator Program as well as a Technology Advisor for a range of Smart Cities-related projects undertaken by Turf Advisory.

In this episode of Inside Access Control, we catch up with John Nemerofsky, Chief Operating Officer at SAGE Integration.  John shares his deep and successful history in the security industry, how Sage Integration has built its business to be resilient and phase changes he and his company are seeing on the frontlines of our industry.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnemo/ 

Website: https://www.sageintegration.com 

In this episode of Inside Access Control, we catch up with Paul DiPeso, Executive Vice President of Feenics.  We discuss the origins of Feenics, how their business and their dealers are set up for business continuity, he shares that 30-35% of their dealers are in the managed services business now and how this phase change will be accelerated due to the Coronavirus.

In this episode of Inside Access Control, we catch up with Don Erickson, CEO of the Security Industry Association where he, his staff and a long list of volunteers have been working day and night to develop tools and resources for its members to help navigate these turbulent times.  Through collaboration with ASIS and ESA, the community has really come together during this hard time to work closely and do what they can to help.  Don spends some time with us to discuss what's available, give thanks and recognition to the essential workers on the front lines, and an ask for more collaboration and communication in an effort to help.

On this episode, we catch up with Steve Van Till, CEO of Brivo.  20 years ago, Brivo introduced the security industry to cloud-based access control.  Since then, they have accumulated 20+ million users and have 40+ countries with systems installed worldwide. In 2019, Brivo internally kicked off a handful of enterprise-focused projects centered on data analytics including architecture, visualization, and insights. When the Coronavirus crisis hit, coupled with the system cloud-based architecture, the adoption worldwide, and the data science work already completed, Brivo was in a great position to showcase some extremely interesting insights. Brivo is able to tell a fascinating time-lapse, state by state, industry by industry, and country by country story mapping the effect of Covid-19. 

In this episode of Inside Access Control, I catch up with Sce Pike, CEO of IOTAS.  IOTAS works in the multifamily market where they help multifamily owners and operators turn their buildings into smart homes and communities. With their background in user experience, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, they designed their company to be an "as a service" company that is bringing correlations between retention, usage, etc and the utilities like access control, lighting, and HVAC.  Recently, in an effort to help their customers in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis they launched an easy self-tour solution that will allow for prospects to get into buildings and see a model unit on their own in order to maintain safe social-distancing for apartment staff and future residents.

In this episode of Inside Access Control, I catch up with Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder. Topcoder was launched in 2001 and set out to answer two questions. 1. Could they create a transparent and reputable rating system for developers akin to the famous ranking method used in the world of chess? 2. Could enterprises access these developers on demand to simplify and speed the way they got digital work done? With the recent crisis and everyone working for home, I thought it would be a good idea to check in with someone who has been working like this for a long time and also runs a platform of over 1.5 million member developers, designers, data scientists, and engineers working around the globe every day.  We also knew he'd have great insights and advice on how to set your company up for success and discuss what metrics matter now.

In this Inside Access Control video we catch up with John Mack, Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Imperial Capital. John has been a leader in the security and access control industry for over 30 years spending time as the CEO of Protection One, Co-Founder of Egis Capital Partners, and many years giving back to the Security Industry Association. He always with great insight, John shares his experiences through recessions of the past, innovation, and trends he believes we will see coming out of this crisis, and advice for companies.

In this episode of Inside Access Control we catch up with Wolf Ruzicka, Chairman of the Board at EastBanc Technologies. They are a full-lifecycle software product development firm that has an impressive customer list such as Facebook, Microsoft, Nasdaq, Washington Post, Newsweek, and Microstrategy, to name a few.  I wanted to sit with Wolf so he could share how his firm is built for resiliency, hear real-life stories of past of crisis and how his clients innovated during those times, and his view on how companies can start small with a lot of the cutting edge technologies that are going to power features like "touch-less," edge computing, and artificial intelligence.

In this episode of Inside Access Control we catch up with Jeffrey Friedman, CEO of Building Intelligence.  Headquartered in NYC, Building Intelligence is a cloud-based visitor, vehicle and vendor management software provider for commercial real estate and manages 7 of the tallest buildings and 3 of the largest corporate campuses in the US. Their company is built with resiliency and Jeffrey spends some time with us sharing his insights, views, and experience.