The board of directors of Acre Security has appointed Kumar Sokka as the company’s new chief executive officer effective June 15, 2025.

Highlights from this week's Security News Round-Up.

Speco Technologies announced the addition of five new teammates to its roster, expanding its product management, marketing and sales teams.

With over 20 years in sales and operations leadership, DMP said his strengths are in providing the best customer experiences and growing successful teams through professional development and customer education.

Tristin Vaccaro, the owner of Vaccaro Copywriting and Marketing Solutions, brings a wealth of experience in communications within the security industry.

Austin Park is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience in engineering advanced digital identity, biometric and artificial intelligence solutions.

ALCEA offers a range of critical infrastructure security solutions and access management systems as the internal systems integrator partner of ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions.

In 1999, Todd Pedersen founded Vivint, overseeing its growth as CEO into one of North America’s largest residential security and smart home technology companies.

Dale Bottcher, executive vice president of global sales and marketing at AVI-SPL and current NSCA vice president, assumes the role of NSCA board of directors president.

The appointments are replacing its two recently promoted sales directors, for their former territories in the N.Y. and the Southeast.