Steve Ipson, a well-known central station operations industry professional, joined Monitor America, LLC., as director of business development. Ipson was most recently director of advanced dealer development at Diebold Inc.  He also was director of monitoring services for that company’s central station operations in Ohio and Hawaii.  He was with Diebold for more than 30 years and achieved the CSAA Five Diamond award, CSAA/SDM Central Station of the Year and Frost & Sullivan’s Monitoring Provider of the Year awards during his tenure.

“Steve’s addition to the Monitor America team will reinforce our commitment to provide recurring revenue for dealers and integrators using video and other managed services,” said Jay Stuck, Monitor America’s chief marketing officer. “Steve has a proven track record of developing dealer networks in the commercial space and knows central station operations inside and out. He will be dedicated to showing the dealer/integrator community how to monetize their commercial sales beyond hardware installations and train their sales organizations to sell managed services.”

Monitor America operates a 25,000 square foot full-service central station equipped to handle every type of monitoring service from dealers and integrators across the United States —  all cloud-based business to business, enterprise-level  and residential services ranging from hosted video and access control, virtual guard tours, real-time event reporting, to PERS services, intrusion,  video monitoring and video verification of alarms.