Industry Advocate Award

Recognizing Leadership in Public Policy

About the Industry Advocate Award

SIA's Industry Advocate Award is presented to individuals making an extraordinary contribution of professional time, leadership and resources to position SIA and its members to address public policies impacting the security industry.

Industry ADvocate Award 2025 SIA2025 Industry Advocate Award Recipients: Erica McCann and David McCarthy

SIA has named Erica McCann and David McCarthy as the 2025 recipients of the SIA Industry Advocate Award. The 2025 awardees were recognized during Security Hill Day.

Erica McCann is the head of devices, services and cybersecurity public policy at Amazon. Since joining the company in 2016, she has led advocacy campaigns at the federal, state and local levels to improve outcomes for consumers and enterprise customers. Before joining Amazon, McCann represented the information technology and defense industries on procurement policy matters and was a recipient of the Federal Computer Week Rising Star Award. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Erica McCann accepting her award at Security Hill Day

Originally hailing from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area, David (Dave) McCarthy is an experienced public policy professional who has had a decade of experience at the intersection of technology and government relations. After completing a B.A. in economics and political science from Florida State University, McCarthy worked in government advocacy at the federal, state and local levels advocating for and monitoring a wide range of policy issues in the tech space. He serves as government relations manager at Axis Communications, where he focuses on a variety of technology issues facing the greater security industry, oversees legislative and policy developments, manages collaboration with industry associations and works internally to ensure product line compliance with government regulations.

Dave McCarthy accepting his award at Security Hill Day

(View the official press release here.)

Previous SIA Industry Advocate Award Recipients

  • 2024: Leire Arbona Puértolas and Arielle Thomas
  • 2023: Lisa Shoemaker and Matthew Starr
  • 2022: Joseph Hogan and David Ray
  • 2021: Gabrielle Shea
  • 2019: Wayne Esser and Dhira Gregory
  • 2018: Rob Reiter
  • 2017: Teresa Wu and Holly Borgmann
  • 2016: Anthony Incorvati
  • 2015: Paul Shomburg
  • 2014: Shene Commodore and John Convy
  • 2013: Libby Elliott
  • 2012: Craig Sharman
  • 2011: John Romanowich
  • 2009: Jay Hauhn
  • 2008: Scott Boylan, Roger Roehr and Rob Zivney
  • 2007: Kathleen Carroll
  • 2006: Lynn de Seve and Jim Gingo