Security Industry Association Names Jacob Hengel Video Subcommittee Chair
The CTO of YourSix will lead efforts to develop, review and advocate for video technology standards across the security sector.
- By Jesse Jacobs
- Jul 31, 2026
The SIA appointed Jacob Hengel to serve as chair of its Video and Vision Subcommittee.
Hengel currently serves as chief technology officer and board member at YourSix, where he manages an international engineering team across the United States and Sweden. His background includes hands-on field experience in network infrastructure, server deployment and physical security integration, alongside system design for enterprise clients across telecommunications and security sectors.
In his new role leading the subcommittee, Hengel succeeds former chairs Brian Karas and James Marcella. The group focuses on creating vendor-neutral resources and establishing standards for video applications across security and intelligent-video sectors.
The subcommittee's projects include developing guidance on modern video streaming protocols, such as WebRTC, LL-HLS and QUIC, alongside traditional RTSP protocols. Previous published works by the group include the Camera Setup Guide, the Digital Video Quality Handbook, the Surveillance Camera Image Quality Guide and industry-specific video retention guides.
"Jacob has played an instrumental role on the subcommittee, and his deep engineering, technology and security knowledge will be immensely valuable to this group of leaders as it advocates for and advances industry standards around video security," SIA Chief Executive Officer Don Erickson said.
The SIA Video and Vision Subcommittee oversees both domestic and international video standards activities, bringing together manufacturers, integrators, monitoring providers and end users to establish technical benchmarks for the physical security industry.