ALCEA has announced the appointment of Jeff Slaughter as its new Head of Business Development.
Based in Dallas, the new appointment reports to Dominique Jardin, who was appointed as ALCEA’s Vice President, Head of Americas six months ago.
Slaughter brings more than two decades of experience building high-performing teams, launching advanced security technologies and leading enterprise-level national accounts.
Throughout his career, Slaughter has worked in frontline system design and integration, to managing multi-state sales organisations and pioneering technology rollouts.
In 2020, Slaughter took an entrepreneurial step and founded his own security integration firm in Dallas.
For five years he led the business, delivering large scale access control, video, intrusion detection and automation systems for customers across healthcare, utilities, K–12, commercial buildings and major religious facilities.
ALCEA highlights that building and selling a security integration company gave him a deep understanding of the integrator mindset, which is a perspective he now brings to ALCEA as it strengthens its security channel partner strategy in the US.
Slaughter commented on his appointment: “Technology, integration and solving real security problems have been my passion for over 15 years.
“ALCEA is uniquely positioned to deliver a complete critical infrastructure solution, from ABLOY PROTEC2 CLIQÒ mechanical and electromechanical hardware to ALWIN security management software.”
He added: “I’m excited to help take these capabilities to the customers and verticals that need them most.”
The company states that in his new role, Slaughter will focus on accelerating ALCEA’s growth in vertical markets such as:
While boosting growth in those verticals, Slaughter’s new role will also see him preparing the company’s channel partners for a broader, more coordinated nationwide push.
His immediate focus includes the ramp-up to the North American launch of ALWIN, ALCEA’s advanced security management software platform that integrates access control, intrusion detection, video, visitor management and key management within a modular, scalable system, the company adds.
“ALWIN has already proven its value in securing high risk and remote infrastructure sites across Europe.
“There is enormous potential to replicate that success here in North America as we connect ALWIN to our complete keyed and keyless solutions portfolio,” Slaughter concluded.