Tag: UTC Fire & Security
DMP names Warren Hill as executive director of product management
January 20, 2024SSN Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) has announced the appointment of Warren Hill as executive director of product management. He will oversee the product management team through all aspects of development.
Hill has been in the security industry for over 15 years. He started in 2003 with GE Security, where he spent three years as a global product manager responsible for wireless panels and sensors.
Fate brought him back to the security industry in 2011 as the product marketing...
SIA announces Peter Boriskin as Chair of SIA Standards Committee
October 17, 2022SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Peter Boriskin, chief technology officer at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, as the new chair of SIA’s Standards Committee.
Boriskin takes over as SIA Standards Committee Chair from Steve Van Till – co-founder, president, and CEO of Brivo – who served as chair for 11 years.
In this role, Boriskin will lead and work with committee members to develop, promote and advocate industry standards...
UTC sells fire and security branches to Comvest Investment Partners
April 11, 2012Martha Entwistle
FARMINGTON, Conn.—Comvest Investment Partners on April 10 acquired the security and fire branch operations of UTC Climate, Controls & Security. Comvest has tapped two well-known industry veterans, Mike Snyder and Dean Seavers, to run the new business, which will be called Red Hawk Fire & Security U.S.Snyder, former president of ADT, will serve as CEO and Seavers, former president of GE Security and SimplexGrinnell, will serve as president of the new business.Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
Reorg at UTC Fire & Security
September 29, 2011Martha Entwistle
HARTFORD, Conn.—UTC Fire & Security is no longer a standalone business at United Technologies Corp., the company announced yesterday.Effective yesterday, UTC combined UTC Fire & Security and Carrier Corp. to form a new business called “UTC Climate, Controls and Security Systems.” The company also announced that Geraud Darnis was appointed president and CEO of the new business.“We're consolidating Carrier and UTC Fire & Security into one integrated business that combines the...
ASIS 2011: News and notes from the show floor
September 22, 2011SSN Staff
ORLANDO, Fla.—There was plenty of news being made at ASIS 2011, which took place at the Orange County Convention Center Sept. 19-21. Below are some editor round-ups from ventured out onto the show floor to collect news and other goings-on.
Here's Martha's round-up:
The ASIS news started rolling in well before the show floor opened with the news released around 7 a.m. yesterday that Tyco International plans to split into three independent, publicly traded companies.
Over...
The push for standards
September 12, 2011Martha Entwistle
NEW YORK—Will a marquee security project like the World Trade Center affect how enterprise-level projects are designed and implemented in the future? Or, will this project, which involves multiple manufacturers working together, translate to momentum for establishing standards in the security industry? Several of those involved in the project believe that may be the case.
“From an industry perspective, I think this project will have a major impact. It spans multiple vertical market applications,”...
Presidential change for UTC Fire & Security
July 5, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
FARMINGTON, Conn.—When Scott Buckhout became president of UTC Fire & Security in March, his job as president of Global Fire Products became vacant.
In May, the company, which is based here, announced that Mark Barry has now stepped into that position.
Barry joined UTC Fire & Security in 2010 through the acquisition of GE Security. He has spent more than 20 years in the security and life safety industry, including senior leadership positions at Tyco, ADT, and most recently at GE Security, according...
New UTC Fire & Security Global Security Products president outlines goals
June 3, 2011Martha Entwistle
BRADENTON, Fla.— Before taking over her new role as president of Global Security Products for UTC Fire & Security, Kelly Romano spent a year as SVP of global sales and marketing. During that time, she spent a lot of time with integrators, VARs and dealers, who she said are interested in the seamless integration of access, video and intrusion and locking systems. While UTC Fire & Security already provides that kind of integration with many of its products, the company will be bringing more integrated...
Chubb integrates intelligent building solution SafeRise
May 19, 2011Daniel Gelinas
LYNN, Mass.—Bob Sarsfield has been in the systems integration business for more than 30 years, beginning with Mosler Safe Company, and then Red Hawk, which was bought in 2006 by Chubb, a division of UTC Fire & Security. In that time and during that decades-long tenure, Sarsfield integrated a lot of intrusion, access control, video and other technologically advanced systems. His latest project is an installation of intelligent building solution provider FST21's SafeRise solution at a senior...
Survey: Many in N.Y. unaware of new CO law
May 5, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
MEBANE, N.C.—About a year after a new carbon monoxide detector mandate in New York went into effect, a new survey has found that nearly half of New York families still don't know about the law, according to Kidde, a manufacturer of fire and CO safety products based here.
Amanda's Law, which requires working CO detectors in all one- and two-family homes that have appliances or heating sources that may emit CO or have attached garages, went into effect just over a year ago.
But a new survey conducted...