Ben Brydges has been named dormakaba’s executive vice president, North America, which includes businesses in the United States and Canada. As such, he serves as a member of the dormakaba Group senior management team. Brydges will be based in the company’s North American headquarters in Indianapolis.

“Our industry is in the midst of a transformation that involves digitization and integration across the entire access ecosystem,” said Brydges. “This shift requires new security solutions that incorporate technology appropriately and work across a wide range of demographics in increasingly diverse settings. We will continue to deliver products, solutions, and services to create safe, secure and sustainable places where people can move around seamlessly.”

In his new role, Brydges will be a featured panelist at the SECURITY 500 Conference. He will be discussing threats, solutions and trends with security professionals from Volt.ai, Axis Communications, Honeywell, SAGE Integration and Brivo. The panel will be moderated by security and access control expert, Michael Gips.

Brydges joined dormakaba in 2020. Immediately prior to his current role, he served as the senior vice president and general manager of dormakaba’s specialty access solutions group with direct responsibilities to grow the hospitality, multifamily housing, vacation rental, and time and attendance businesses. He has also led the company’s program management and business transformation teams.

Brydges has over 20 years’ experience on the front lines of operations, sales, program management, customer centricity and engineering with progressive responsibilities in the automotive, industrial, security and consumer goods industries. Brydges holds a bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering Technology and a master of business sdministration degrees from the University of Toledo.

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