SIA Member of the Year Award
Recognizing SIA Members for Leadership and Engagement in the Association and Contributions to the Security Industry
About the SIA Member of the Year Award
The SIA Member of the Year Award honors Security Industry Association (SIA) member companies that have shown outstanding involvement in SIA committees, subcommittees, interest groups and working groups, participation in SIA events and the SIA Education@ISC conference program, leadership, recruitment of SIA members and contributions to SIA thought leadership and the industry overall. The Member of the Year Award is presented at The Advance, SIA's annual membership meeting, held during ISC West.
2025 Member of the Year Recipients: Convergint, Wavelynx and Wesco
SIA has selected Convergint, Wavelynx and Wesco to each receive a 2025 SIA Member of the Year Award.
Convergint – a global service-based systems integrator – has been a corporate member of SIA since 2006. The company actively participates in a variety of SIA programs, events, courses, offerings and services. Convergint colleagues have been active contributors and/or speakers in SIA’s events and publications, including the annual Security Megatrends report, Securing New Ground (SNG) conference and SIA Education at ISC West conference, and the company has been a generous sponsor of a variety of SIA events. The company’s colleagues have been regular attendees of SIA conferences and networking events, including SIA Honors Night, SIAThere! networking events, the Vertical Insights symposium series and the National Capital Region Security Forum events; participated in SIA training and certification programs, including the Certified Security Project Management certification and the SIAcademy training offerings; and been active consumers of SIA resources like the School Security Funding Guide and Security Convergence 2024 report. Convergint Technologies’ Mike Mathes serves as treasurer of the SIA Board of Directors, Eric Yunag of Convergint is a member of the SIA Security Megatrends Advisory Board and nearly 40 other Convergint colleagues are involved in SIA’s committees and communities. Convergint has also been engaged with SIA’s award and scholarship programs, receiving RISE Scholarship and 25 on the RISE award recognition, and the company has been a generous supporter of the RISE Scholarship.
Wavelynx – which offers an interoperable, secure access control platform for businesses – joined SIA in 2016. The company is an enthusiastic SIA member involved in a variety of SIA events, programs and initiatives. Wavelynx is an active participant in SIA events and education offerings, with team members regularly attending events like SIA’s offerings at ISC West and East and webinars, and the company has generously sponsored and attended AcceleRISE, Securing New Ground and The Interface. Wavelynx team members have actively participated in SIA’s training and standards offerings, including the SIAcademy learning series and the Open Supervised Device Protocol standard, and the company’s leaders have been valuable contributors and speakers in SIA events and programs including SNG, the Return on Security breakfast, ISC East and West and SPARC, SIA’s technical end user forum. Wavelynx’s leaders are highly engaged in SIA’s committees and communities, with the company’s president, Robert Lydic, serving as a member of SIA’s Executive Advisory Board and as co-chair of the Startups in Security community.
Wesco – a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services and supply chain solutions – has been an active SIA member since 2013. The company’s employees are frequent attendees and supporters of SIA events and programs, including SIA Honors Night, SIAThere!, AcceleRISE and SIA’s events at ISC West and East, and the company has been a generous sponsor of SIA programs including the OT-IT Convergence Report, Market Leaders Reception, Security LeadHER, SNG, SIA Technology Insights, the Security Market Index and the Critical Infrastructure Lunch and Learn at ISC East. Wesco’s employees have been active participants in and consumers of SIA training offerings and publications, including the GrantED grants training course and the Security Convergence 2024 report, and the company’s leaders have been key contributors and/or speakers in SIA programs like SIA GovSummit, SNG and ISC West. Wesco’s Tara Dunning is a member of the SIA Board of Directors and the Security Megatrends Advisory Board; Renee Thompson, director of global sustainability and environmental compliance at Wesco, is chair of SIA’s Environmental, Social and Governance Advisory Board; and over 20 of the company’s team members are involved in various SIA committees and communities, including the SIA Women in Security Forum.
Previous Member of the Year Award Winners
- 2024: dormakaba and SALTO Systems
- 2023: Motorola Solutions and RFI Communications & Security Systems
- 2022: Genetec and SAGE Integration
- 2021: Allegion and Feenics
- 2020: ASSA ABLOY
- 2019: Axis Communications
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