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COVER STORY
By Ralph C. Jensen
SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP
utting together the proper leadership team may be an overwhelming task. It has to be created carefully and properly, and it has to work to be successful. Bastion Se- curity Inc., headquartered in Portland, Ore., has made it work both at the headquarters office, and at branches in
Southern and Northern California.
Bastion has an operational heritage of 14 years, but it became its
own brand in 2016, with the core leadership team coming together less than two years ago. Led by Josh Daniels, Bastion Security’s solu- tion is video monitoring technology with security expertise, all rolled in together. That means serious security at a lower cost for the end user or customer.
Daniels is the president and CEO of Bastion Security. Previously, he served as the president and CEO of AlphaCard from 2005, un- til the 2015 sale of the company to Cortec Group. Security isn’t new to Daniels, and neither is successful leadership. Bastion has its chal- lenges but nothing that a 90-minute plane ride won’t fix as one of the five-member management team is located in California. Four team
members are located in Portland. The leadership tries to meet at least once a month person to person, and obviously more often via phone. “We have a lot of activity in California, so we’re active on confer- ence calls and remote messaging,” Daniels said. “We’re leading the ad- vance in next-gen security; a smarter use of manpower matched with the right technology, to keep assets protected and people focused on
running their businesses.”
A PIONEERING SPIRIT
Bastion Security pioneered the camera tower solution and was the first to deploy units in California. The company currently holds nine U.S. patents on security tower technology. They have a long and suc- cessful history of protecting property and assets.
Their team has decades of security experience, and some of the best minds in the remote video security space. Brett Kerekffy is chief sales officer; Karissa Aleskus, chief financial officer; David Raske, chief marketing & business development officer; and Anthony Moore, director of security operations.
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