Vice President, Technology & Support Services
Wesco
Matt Powers is the Vice President of Global Technology and Support Services at Wesco. Matt currently manages Wesco’s global field engineering team with a network of engineers supporting physical security, data centers, building technologies and industrial controls and networking. He brings with him over 20 years of sales, management and technical experience in the physical security industry. Matt has been an elected member of the ASIS Physical Security Council, with a special focus in ASIS’ education, international and physical security system design subcommittees.
In 2010, Matt was elected into the Technical Services Committee of ONVIF, making Wesco the only nonmanufacturer representative to serve on an ONVIF committee. ONVIF is an open industry forum for the development of a global standard for the interface of IP-based physical security products. In his committee role, Matt’s objective was to be the voice of Wesco’s customers, both end-users and integrators, within the standards community. During his time with ONVIF, he assisted in the development of many physical security interoperability standards such as ONVIF Profiles S (video streaming), C (IP-based access control) and G (edge video storage). Matt also introduced the Profile concept to the ONVIF standards committee.
In his current role, Matt leads Wesco’s Technology & Support Services team of over 70 global engineers who partner with globe sales teams and specialize in supporting complex customer applications. He also guides the company’s commercial technology strategy with a team of innovation experts to evaluate and test transformational technologies (IoT, 5G, Edge Computing, Analytics and Cybersecurity).
In 2014, Matt was recognized as one of the 40 most influential people in the security industry by IFSEC Global.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Business Management from the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2022
2:30pm – 3:20pm