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Russell B. Leavitt
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Russ Leavitt is responsible for Long-Range Strategic Planning, Business Development, Marketing, Human Resources, and Finance. Most recently, Mr. Leavitt was the President and Chief Operating Officer of TVA Fire and Life Safety. He continues to serve on the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Leavitt also co-founded the Fire Design Group, which specialized in providing fire protection design documents for architects, developers, and contractors.
Mr. Leavitt is active in many trade associations, and has served in numerous leadership positions including several NFPA committees: NFPA 25 (Inspections, Testing, and Maintenance) and the correlating committee for NFPA 5000 (Building Code). He is a nationally recognized expert in fire sprinkler systems and a regular instructor and speaker for numerous organizations including the American Fire Sprinkler Association (AFSA). Mr. Leavitt has written numerous articles, including the study guide for NICET certification in the Field of Fire Sprinkler System Testing and Inspections published by the AFSA. Mr. Leavitt is a Level IV NICET certified fire sprinkler layout technician and holds licenses in more than thirty states for Fire Protection Contracting System Inspections and Testing. Mr. Leavitt earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
James W. Tomes
President
Mr. James Tomes provides overall leadership for the Telgian. Mr. Tomes focuses on Long-Range Strategic Planning and Business Development, as well as Sales and Marketing, Personnel, and Finance. Mr. Tomes has held positions of COO with Telgian, and in TVA Fire and Life Safety, Inc. as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales, and Chief Financial Officer. He joined TVA as an Account Executive in 1990 after assisting with long-range planning for the company. He is a graduate of Brown University with a Degree in Business Economics and a focus on Corporate Finance.
Charles R. Brown, Jr.
Chief Operating Officer
Charles Brown joined one of the former Telgian companies in March 2004, and is responsible for the Operations of Telgian, including Information Systems, Marketing efforts and Sales Operations. Before coming to Telgian, Mr. Brown was President and Managing Partner of Charles Brown Management, a professional services company specializing in corporate growth through implementation and redevelopment of operations, information management systems, call centers, CRM, and change management.
Mr. Brown’s career accomplishments include project management leadership in the design, implementation, and operational development of ADT’s national sales and service center in Jacksonville, Florida, which allowed ADT to double its consumer business within a few short years. As a Director at Wells Fargo Alarm, Mr. Brown led the final release and roll out of SecureVision, an innovative product. At SecurityLink from Ameritech, Mr. Brown built a national sales and service center designed to accommodate the company’s rapid growth and subsequent sale to ADT/Tyco. At Charles Brown management he led a professional services group that served global companies like Citibank, American Express, Belgicom and many others.
Brian Ballard
Chief Financial Officer
Brian Ballard joined Telgian in January 2009 as our Chief Financial Officer. He brings over twenty-five years of solid Senior Financial Executive experience to Telgian, having worked in the aerospace, manufacturing, distribution and warehousing and heavy truck industries. His accomplishments include attaining and maximizing profitability, conceiving and delivering strategic business and operational improvements, managing global operations, negotiating and integrating acquisitions, and fostering and nurturing highly effective teams.
Mr. Ballard received his MBA from the Ohio State University. He holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Texas. He served in the United States Army, Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division.
Tom Parrish
Vice President, Integration
Tom Parrish joined Telgian in October 2003 and leads the organizations efforts on self-performed installations. He also manages the companies internal security and life safety program at all Telgian facilities. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Parrish was a Lead fire alarm designer for TVA Fire and Life Safety where he assisted and facilitated training, provided vital supervision on alarm installation programs and field design of systems for high profile clients such as the Disney Corporation.
Mr. Parrish has 17 years of experience in fire protection and emergency response. He has held positions with municipal fire, law enforcement and emergency medical services and in private sector systems design and installation programs. He maintains an active commitment to the profession as an on-call firefighter and is currently certified in firefighting, emergency medical treatment, weapons of mass destruction and hazardous materials response.
Professional credentials include Level IV NICET certified fire alarm technician, current licensing as a alarm technician, Journeyman and Master electrician and Board certification as a Physical Security Professional by ASIS. Mr. Parrish earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology from the Kean University of New Jersey.
Ralph E. Bless, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Design
Mr. Bless joined TVA Fire & Life Safety, Inc. in July 1998 and has served in multiple technical and leadership roles. Mr. Bless serves as Executive Vice President of Design for Telgian, and is responsible for Telgian’s Design functions. This includes fire suppression system, fire alarm and intrusion system analysis and design as well as municipal and shop drawing plan review.
Mr. Bless, a Professional Engineer licensed in 6 states, has 27 years experience in various aspects of fire protection engineering, including system design, consulting, risk analysis, and code review. He has served as a liaison between customers, authorities having jurisdiction, and contractors/suppliers, and has expertise in the design of water-based fire suppression systems and fire and smoke modeling. He is a Level IV NICET senior certified fire sprinkler layout technician and holds several state and national certifications.
Steve Goyette
Executive Vice President, Risk and Compliance
Steve Goyette joined TVA Fire and Life Safety in November 1991and has served as Executive Vice President of Risk and Compliance since January 2008, overseeing the operations of Telgian’s loss control engineering services as well as its sprinkler and alarm testing and inspections team.
Prior to this current role within Telgian, Mr. Goyette has served as CFO and Division Vice President at TVA after joining the company as a Fire Sprinkler Designer and Fire Protection Consultant. Mr. Goyette has 22 years of experience in fire protection design and consulting including fire sprinkler contracting.
Professional credentials include Level III NICET certified in Fire Protection Engineering Technology Automatic Sprinkler System Layout. Mr. Goyette earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, emphasis in Management, from San Diego State University
Bill Holden
Executive Vice President, Operations
Mr. Bill Holden provides oversight of all construction and engineering services. Mr. Holden began his career in fire protection as a fire sprinkler design technician, and has held numerous positions including lead designer at American Automatic Sprinkler, Inc., and Vice President of Technical Services at TVA Fire and Life Safety.
Mr. Holden co-founded the Fire Design Group with Russ Leavitt. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Telgian. He is an expert in fire sprinkler design and project management.
Darryl Weiss
General Counsel / Secretary
Darryl Weiss joined TVA Fire and Life Safety in 2004 and is responsible for providing legal counsel to the organization and Board of Directors and guidance on merger and acquisitions, international law, executive compensation, contracts, intellectual property, employment and labor law, Board governance and compliance and data privacy issues. He is also certified in domestic and international compensation and benefits.
Prior to joining Telgian Mr. Weiss worked in the aerospace, computer, telecommunications and biotechnology industries in a variety of legal and human resources roles and has led acquisition and divestiture teams around the globe. Mr. Weiss has worked on site in Canada, England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland.
Mr. Weiss is the past chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s International Law Committee where he has held a number of leadership roles. He is a member of the American and Canadian Bar Associations as well as the Ontario, California and Washington State Bars and a former member of the Law Society of England and Wales and the Law Society of Hong Kong. Mr. Weiss is a frequent speaker to and has published articles for various legal and human resources organizations.
Mark Beers
Executive Vice President, Performance and Project Management Office
As Executive Vice-president in charge of Telgian PPMO (Performance and Project Management Office), Mark leads a team that is responsible for Client Program Management, Project Management, Project Coordination, Project Control, and Company Business analytics. This team’s duties include all client projects from beginning to end including managing the client-project relationship and project management, external stakeholder communications, and measuring and reporting company performance on goals and objectives.
Mark joined Telgian in September of 2007. He is a veteran of 35 years in construction management and spent 15 years as a Project Manager, Store Planning Manager, and Corporate Director of Construction for The Home Depot. Mark lead the construction of 2,100 Home Depot new store projects while managing a budget of $2.5B per year in construction activity. Prior to joining The Home Depot, Mark built shopping centers, housing and commercial office structures.
James R. Baumgardner (Randy)
Executive Vice President, Contracting and Procurement
Randy Baumgardner is the Executive Vice President of the Contracting and Procurement Division. Randy recently retired from the United States Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel after twenty-two years of service. He is a former Deputy Group Director and Squadron Commander with an extensive background in logistics, maintenance as well as implementation of Lean management systems in manufacturing, engineering and service support processes.
Craig Remsburg
Executive Vice President, Human Resources
Craig P. Remsburg is Vice President, Human Resources & Organization Development. He was promoted to this corporate division position in November 2007. Prior to his present assignment, Craig conducted senior consulting projects in Fire Protection and Life Safety, and served as the division business leader for the Maintenance Division since March 2006.
Prior to joining Telgian, he was a Vice President, Senior Consultant for Marsh Risk Consulting/Kroll in the Emergency Management field. Craig completed a 20 + year career with The Boeing Company in various managerial roles, such as Fire Chief & Security Manager. He managed the Security Plant Protection organization with over 350 personnel at the St. Louis, MO facility.
Craig has an Associate’s degree in Fire Science, Bachelor’s degree in Management and a Masters degree in Security Management. He was on the adjunct faculty at Webster University, St. Louis campus in the Security Management Graduate Program. He also is retired as a Master Sergeant from the US Air Force Reserves, where he served as a Fire Protection Specialist.
Juan Olivari
Executive Vice President, Latin America
As the Executive Vice President for our Latin America Division, Mr. Olivari is responsible for providing engineering and construction services in Latin American countries to US and local companies with multi-locations property needs. Juan brings over 29 years of experience in Fire Protection and Executive Management.
Mr. Olivari joined Telgian in Dec. 2004 as the Construction Supervisor for our projects in Mexico Latin America. He is a speaker on Fire Protection issues at NFPA and other industry-related conferences both in the United States and throughout Latin America. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Lima, Peru. Professional credentials include NICET and Ansul certifications, among others.
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