DENVER – PSA Security Network held its 44th TEC Conference in March, and show organizers say attendance was up 28 percent over last year.
The conference featured 140 educational sessions covering executive leadership skills, sales and marketing topics, operations, procurement, audio-visual, cybersecurity, technical, and a host of industry and product certifications.
The first annual PSA Scholarship Award was also presented to Peyton Robinson, daughter of Mark Robinson, Director of Operations for New York-based integrator Securitronics. Peyton is currently a junior at the State University of New York at Canton, where she is majoring in Criminal Investigations with a minor in Homeland Security.
Additionally, PSA elected new integrator owners to positions on its Board of Directors, including: Carey Boethel, President and CEO of Securadyne Systems; Skip Sampson, President of KST Security; and Terry Rivet, President and CEO of Securitronics.
“We are pleased to announce the incoming directors who will help guide the future of PSA and continue to solidify PSA’s position in the industry,” said Bill Bozeman, CPP, president and CEO of PSA.
Finally, as always, PSA honors many of its vendors with awards at the conference. For the fourth year in a row, Altronix was called on stage to receive PSA’s highest honor, its Superstar Award.
Here are the rest of this year’s honorees: Jason Schlichting, ScanSource (individual customer service); Bosch (team customer service); Almo Corp., AMAG, Bosch, Exacq, Hanwha Techwin America, HID Global, Lenel, Liberty AV Solutions, Life Safety Power, Milestone Systems, Milestone AV Technologies, Shure, SurgeX and Windy City Wire (Star Award); Harman Professional Solutions (USAV Superstar Award).