SIA Chair's Award
Recognizing Leadership in the Association
The SIA Chair's Award is an award presented annually to a SIA member selected by the current chair. The Chair's Award recognizes the member's diligent efforts in furthering the SIA mission and the member's overall commitment to the association's future.
2025 SIA Chair's Award Recipient: Holly Borgmann
SIA has named Holly Borgmann as the 2025 recipient of the SIA Chair's Award. Borgmann is the vice president of government affairs at ADT, a provider of electronic security, home automation and alarm monitoring services. She has advocated for and successfully enacted meaningful legislative and regulatory changes at the state and federal levels to help clear the way for increased adoption of new technology in homes and businesses. Borgmann spends much of her time focused on public safety policy, data privacy, data security and other tech issues. A leader in the security industry, she serves on a number of boards dedicated to advancing public safety initiatives and other industry priorities. Borgmann has been recognized for her contributions to the industry, winning the Security Systems News’ 20 Under 40 award in 2015 and the SIA Industry Advocate Award (then the SIA Statesman Award) in 2017, was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech in 2019 and earned a place on the SIA Women in Security Forum Power 100 list in 2023. She was also named to Florida Trend Magazine’s Florida 500 list in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and in 2024 she was awarded the Electronic Security Association’s Sara E. Jackson Award in recognition for her work leading the organization’s Government Affairs committee. In addition to serving as secretary of SIA’s Board of Directors, Borgmann is a member of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition Board of Directors.
Borgmann has served on the SIA Board of Directors since 2022 and serves as secretary on the SIA Executive Committee. She has been a key leader and volunteer with SIA, with active engagement in SIA’s Women in Security Forum community and a founding member of the Power 100 subcommittee, dedicating substantial time and expertise to evaluating hundreds of nominations each year for the distinguished award program. Borgmann is heavily involved in SIA’s government relations and industry relations efforts. She serves as vice chair of the SIA Government Relations Committee, which helps identify and advise SIA members regarding legislation, regulations and other policy trends or pending government actions affecting the security industry and makes high-level recommendations for related actions, and she has also served as a member of SIA’s SecurityPAC Board of Trustees and the Identity and Biometric Technology Advisory Board. Additionally, she serves on the SIA Data Privacy Advisory Board.
Previous Chair's Award Winners
- 2024: John Mack
- 2023: Kim Loy and Brendan McFall
- 2022: Antoinette King
- 2021: Craig Sharman
- 2020: SIA RISE Committee
- 2019: SIA Women in Security Forum
- 2018: Richard Brent
- 2017: Ken Mills
- 2016: Lynn de Séve
- 2015: Scott Schafer
- 2013: Laurie Aaron and Rob Zivney
- 2012: Jim Gingo and Bill Taylor
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