Tag: Honeywell Security Group

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Honeywell is making changes. Yesterday, the company made an internal announcement that it's combining its security and fire businesses into one new business, Honeywell Security and Fire (HSF). David Paja, who took over as president of Honeywell Security Group in January, has been named president of HSF. HSF will be a business unit within Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions (ACS) division. Paja will report to Alex Ismail, president and CEO of ACS. Before being named president...

SYOSSET, N.Y.—Ron Rothman, who recently retired as president of Honeywell Security Group after a 32-year career, will join New York integration firm AFA Protective, based here, as SVP in August.Rothman told Security Systems News he's excited to join AFA, which he called “a terrific business with outstanding leadership and a long history of quality and integrity over the decades.”“Helping my customers to succeed was my goal at Honeywell and now I'll get to help AFA do that,”...

Just off the show floor after a very busy Wednesday at ESX, starting with the CSAA Excellence Awards Breakfast. There were a number of great seminars throughout the day and the floor was abuzz with networking. I assume everyone saved a little energy for the ESX Crawl … I'm about to get out there myself to sample a little of that Nashville hospitality, but I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the award winners who highlighted the day. For those who might have missed it: CSAA Central Station of the...

ESX attendees who want to get an inside look at a CSAA Five Diamond central station will get their chance on June 26 when ADS Security hosts a tour of its monitoring facility in Nashville. A motor coach will take tour participants from the Nashville Convention Center to ADS headquarters, where the company's latest monitoring technology will be on display. After the tour, ADS will host a cocktail reception to meet company staff and discuss operations at the central. ADS serves more than 70,000 commercial...

Talk about serendipitous product placement—Ron Rothman, president of Honeywell Security Group, was featured in Newsday this week, talking about Honeywell's new Tuxedo Touch, a security/automation product for homes that can also be used by businesses. And the article on him just happened to appear in the newspaper on the same day Newsday's cover story was on the rising number of burglaries at homes and businesses on Long Island. “Of course, this is technology that can help address the...

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.—Private equity firm Generation3 Capital has entered the PERS arena by acquiring LogicMark, a designer and manufacturer of medical alarm systems, with former Honeywell Security Group executives Ben Cornett and Kevin O'Connor named to lead the company.Generation3 (Gen3) teamed with Promus Equity Partners on the acquisition, which was completed Dec. 30. Financial terms were not disclosed.Jim Coleman, principal of Gen3, based here, said LogicMark's record of strong growth and...

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Honeywell today announced that Scott Harkins will replace JoAnna Sohovich, who resigned from her role as president, Honeywell Security & Communications, on Dec. 2. Sohovich moved to a job outside of the security industry and is now president, Industrial & Automotive Repair (NA, Asia & EMPG) at Stanley Black & Decker.Harkins who has overseen Honeywell's video surveillance and access control divisions, has been appointed to a newly created role and will now oversee Honeywell Security...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Ron Rothman, president of Honeywell Security Group, told dealers at the First Alert Professional 2011 Convention here they need to start offering remote services or the telecoms, cable companies and other competitors will take their customers away.“If you don't think there is going to be a difference between the digital dial-up, tin-can version of RMR and the remote-services version, I think you better take another look because it's coming and it's coming fast,”...

MELVILLE, N.Y.—Michael Ooten has been appointed as regional sales manager for Honeywell Systems, a division of Honeywell Security Group. In this role, Ooten will focus on growing sales of Honeywell's video surveillance systems for Texas and Oklahoma. Ooten has more than 10 years of industry experience including a stint at Dowley Systems in Oklahoma. Most recently he served as gaming sales manager for NICE Systems. He will be based in Edmond, Oklahoma.

CHICAGO—Motorola Mobility and Honeywell Security Group are working together to develop an end-to-end connected home security solution. Motorola Mobility—which makes mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, wireless accessories, end-to-end video and data delivery, and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices—announced the collaboration at a cable show June 15. Motorola Mobility was part of Motorola Inc., which separated into two publicly traded companies...