PRESS RELEASE
SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Safety Business Affiliation (SIA) has named 24 recipients for this yr’s SIA RISE Scholarship, a program supplied via SIA’s RISE neighborhood, which helps the training and profession improvement objectives of younger {industry} expertise and rising leaders.
By means of this scholarship program – open to SIA pupil members and RISE members who’re staff at SIA member corporations – every awardee will obtain a $3,000 scholarship to make use of towards persevering with training {and professional} improvement programs, SIA program choices and/or different educational or education schemes. Scholarship funds can be utilized to broaden information within the areas of enterprise, human sources, data know-how, advertising, gross sales, mission administration, safety engineering and/or danger administration.
“SIA congratulates this yr’s class of RISE Scholarship awardees – a formidable, various array of safety professionals and rising stars who’re making their mark on our {industry},” stated SIA CEO Don Erickson. “We’re proud to current scholarships to extra recipients this yr than ever earlier than and honored to assist these inspiring younger leaders as they pursue their instructional and profession improvement objectives.”
The winners for this yr’s RISE Scholarship are:
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Zachary Allen, account government, Convergint Applied sciences
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Brianna Bonfondeo, account supervisor, Traka, ASSA ABLOY World Options
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Joi Brown, management middle specialist, Fast Response Monitoring Companies
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Brenda Constantin, account government, 3Sixty Built-in, a Division of the Prepare dinner & Boardman Group
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Jonathan Crabtree, channel gross sales specialist, Genetec
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Taylor Davenport, HR enterprise accomplice, i-PRO Americas
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Mason Fanning, finish person specialist, ASSA ABLOY
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Natalie Fetsko, buyer success supervisor, dormakaba
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Aishwarya Gandhe, senior channel advertising coordinator, North America, Genetec
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Anish Chandra Jalla, software program developer II, Genetec
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Kajaanei Kajenthiran, safety guard, Metropolis of Toronto, Canada
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Will Knehr, senior supervisor of knowledge assurance and knowledge privateness, i-PRO Americas
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Ryan Knoll, account government, Professional-Tec Design
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Chandni Lalwani, DevOps engineer, HID World
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Vincent Malenfer-Henard, safety analyst, Genetec
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Josh Martin, mechanical engineer II, dormakaba
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Bryn Menzel, director of strategic accounts and advertising, 3millID Company
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Gabriella Moraniec, contracts supervisor, GSA Schedules
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Taylor Nevells, digital advertising and content material specialist, Wavelynx
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Juan Pelayo, technical assist supervisor, i-PRO Americas
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Itzel Portillo, advertising specialist, Allegion
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Joel Searle, program supervisor, ZBeta
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Maria Sturges, mission coordinator and administrator, Northland Controls
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Julie Trinh, SDK specialist, Genetec
Study extra concerning the honorees right here.
SIA would additionally wish to thank the next people and corporations which contributed to the 2024 RISE Scholarship fund. Tax-deductible donations had been made via the Basis for Advancing Safety Expertise (FAST), a nonprofit group co-founded by SIA and the Digital Safety Affiliation and devoted to connecting passionate, modern professionals with new alternatives within the safety {industry}.
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Safe Entry & Digital Programs
SIA RISE is a neighborhood that fosters the careers of rising leaders within the safety {industry}. Along with the SIA RISE Scholarship, SIA RISE provides enjoyable in-person and digital networking occasions for younger professionals, the Expertise Inclusion Mentorship Training (TIME) program for early and mid-career professionals, the 25 on the RISE Awards, profession development webinars and commerce present training tracks and the annual AcceleRISE convention – a novel occasion designed to ignite new pondering, strengthen management and sharpen enterprise acumen in younger safety expertise. The SIA RISE neighborhood is open to all staff at SIA member corporations who’re younger professionals beneath 40 or have been within the safety {industry} for lower than two years; be taught extra and signal as much as be part of.
About SIA
SIA is the main commerce affiliation for international safety answer suppliers, with over 1,500 modern member corporations representing hundreds of safety leaders and specialists who form the way forward for the safety {industry}. SIA protects and advances its members’ pursuits by advocating pro-industry insurance policies and laws on the federal and state ranges, creating open {industry} requirements that allow integration, advancing {industry} professionalism via training and coaching, opening international market alternatives and collaborating with different like-minded organizations. Because the premier sponsor of ISC Occasions expos and conferences, SIA ensures its members have entry to top-level patrons and influencers, in addition to unparalleled studying and community alternatives. SIA additionally enhances the place of its members within the safety market via SIA GovSummit, which brings collectively personal {industry} with authorities choice makers, and Securing New Floor, the safety {industry}’s high government convention for peer-to-peer networking.