Alcatraz AI Names Security Industry Vet Josh Jackson as Regional Vice President, Strategic Partnerships
Jackson joins the company after serving as regional vice president of RightCrowd Software
Alcatraz AI, developer of secure frictionless access control
platforms, has named security industry veteran Josh Jackson as Regional Vice President, Strategic
Partnerships.
Based in Florida, Jackson will oversee sales, business development, customer service, marketing, and
operations for Alcatraz AI.
“We’re excited to have a security industry pro lead our East Coast sales operations as we continue to
build our innovative frictionless access control platforms,” said Alcatraz AI Chief Executive Officer and
Founder Vince Gaydarzhiev. “Josh Jackson has earned a high level of respect throughout his career with
leading roles with international security companies and professional organizations. His colleagues
consistently report that he is hard-working, dedicated, and is very skilled at relaying complex technical
processes like those we are developing.”
Josh comes to Alcatraz AI with a wealth of security industry experience. He most recently served as
Regional Vice President North America with RightCrowd Software. After focusing primarily on video
surveillance he joined STANLEY Security as Director of Global Product Integration leading those efforts
in their product business. He has served as Director of Strategic Accounts for Pelco by Schneider Electric
and helped start the EMEA Center of Excellence while on assignment in Paris. Josh took a role in the
Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) global security consortium trying to move away from
proprietary systems and into the open standards world. He was a member of the team that took the PLAI
(Physical Logical Access Interoperability) specification from an idea on a whiteboard to a commercially
available solution. He served as a board member for seven years and vice chairman for three of those
years.
“As a longtime security industry professional, I’ve witnessed many impressive technological advances, but
access control in physical security has not been innovating at a pace consistent with the demands of
digital transformation. With Alcatraz AI, there is a product to change the way access control ties into the
site access experience strategies of many enterprise organizations adding frictionless access, but without
compromising the validation and identity assurance required. That is why I am thrilled to join Alcatraz AI
to lead the way in getting the offering to market,” said Jackson. “The future of access control is in the
ability to deliver security without compromising on friction and Alcatraz AI has developed an incredible
product that will improve access and overall security for a variety of vertical markets."