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Comments (68)
Undisclosed Manufacturer #1
Bring Scott Schafer back :-)
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Undisclosed #2
but only after Transom installs it’s own management???
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
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Casey Mitchell
John Roman has had various leadership positions within Pelco over the last decade. During my tenure, John was the most respected of Pelco's Exec on the team and served as a driving force behind the Back to Blue campaign as well as owning technical services and customer service.
John's collaborative approach to team building, empowerment, industry partnerships, and professional integrity represents the best of Pelco's historic fanatical customer service battle cry.
I would love to see John Roman serve as the next Captain of David McDonlad's ship.
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Undisclosed
How old is your youngest Pelco install. This feels like one of those minicomputer companies that stumbled way to long into the 1990's before it was shot in the head. And is their modern stuff any good? features, cyber, managability, interoperability, ...
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Undisclosed #2
Transom President: What a resume! When can you start?
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John Harrington
It is a shame that Dave MacDonald passed away, he would have been a logical interim leader.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #5
Pelco doesn't need new vision. Pelco doesn't need new tech. Pelco doesn't even need new personnel.
Pelco needs to go on the offensive as a Marketing company. Take a page out of Avigilon's book and dump a significant part of resources and revenue reinvestment into tools that make Pelco easy to do business with, and that market the crap out of the company in every conceivable nook and cranny. I'm talking about brute force effort marketing. That, coupled with a very good product portfolio today (VideoXpert, Optera, and a great camera portfolio), bake for 12-18 months, and restore Pelco as a top-tier manufacturer in the Video Surveillance space.
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Undisclosed
But are their cameras/vms'/whatever any good now? Is there product there which one might consider using, regardless of what warm body is in the CEO chair this week? Pelco has spent a looooong time on the "run away, old stuff" list. Is it secure? Does it have modern features? Do they have a solution that can do FR on a moving vehicle? Have they figured out TLS to the camera might be good?
Is there some reason we should be following this thread other than to watch old timers wax poetical about that time Pelco gave out jet fighter rides at an A&E event back in the day...
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #5
I'd stack VideoXpert against any other large Enterprise VMS out there today, and the same for their cameras against most Tier A camera manufacturers.
I believe TLS has been supported on their cameras for over a year now, but I could be wrong about that.
You should probably revisit their portfolio soon. They've come a long way over the last 5 years.
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Undisclosed
Thank you for the input. I agree with you they merit a fresh investigation. (Which does imply I hope the current/next generation of management doesn't screw up the products.)
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Undisclosed Integrator #8
A page from the Marketing book from Avigilon, the end-to-end solution offer & Customer support ethic from the old Pelco, I say go for Dave Dalleske as Pelco 3.0 CEO -
Considering 2.0 was the Schneider Pelco. https://www.linkedin.com/in/davedalleske/
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #5
I worked closely with Dave, I have a lot of respect for him. Pelco could do far worse than put him at the helm.
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John Honovich
Update October 2019: New CEO Hired
Pelco announced hiring Kurt Takahashi as CEO, formerly President of access control manufacturer AMAG. Transom definitely stayed within the industry for this hire, as they said originally. Takahashi has worked on the Tyco / ADT previously as well as an executive for Quantum Secure, the PIAM / access control company.
Pelco described Takahashi's tenure at AMAG in transformative terms:
We are skeptical of Transom's 'innovative leadership' claim simply because we have not seen AMAG be 'transformed' recently (e.g., OEMing middle-of-the-pack Salient is fine but not innovative). If that is the type of innovation Transom is aiming for at Pelco, this will be a concern.
And as this LinkedIn employee trend shows, AMAG has been more flat over the last few years:
The bigger question is where this 'new' Pelco is going. It is definitely clear they are prioritizing operational improvements, which are certainly needed post spin-out from giant Schneider but beyond that, it is not clear to us what the bigger strategy or vision for Pelco is. We will continue to look into this for a potential future report.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #10
Does Pelco have a path to viability? John, what would you do if you were in Kurt Takahashi's shoes right now?
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Kevin Mundy
10/16/19 02:44pm
Many congratulations to Kurt on his new role. For those of you that have not had the pleasure of working with or for him at some point you will get to see him turn things around get that ship sailing again. Kurt is the utmost stand-up person and they could not have selected a better new leader for Pelco. He knows the space better than anyone and vast experience in all side of the business very well. Look out for great things to come from Kurt and Pelco in the future.
Best of luck Kurt!
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Kyle Baker
I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the part about "innovation" while at AMAG.
All I can say, is that Pelco has been in a terrible place. These moves maybe slow their decline to where they could compete as a middle of the road manufacturer... Maybe. But other than being out from under Schneider, none of these changes instill any confidence that Pelco will be any different in the near future.
But, I'll be fair and give them some time to prove me wrong.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #4
All kidding aside I would actually say there isn’t a better time for this to happen. If he makes the right hires in sales and drives product management and service levels up the world likes an underdog.
They won’t recover JCI now that they are TYCO, but they could get ADT Commercial back as well as Convergint.
When BOSCH bought Philips it was old OEM technology and they stumbled several times. Look at them now.
Maybe he rescues Vicon while he’s at it!
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #11
Kurt Takahasi helped turn AMAG into a joke of a company, and was quite arrogant during the process based on my observations and comments from those who had an even closer look.
I guess we now get to see if he tries the same approach with Pelco.
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Undisclosed Manufacturer #12
Here is a name from their past who could make a huge difference in their future. Bill Arbuckle
I have worked with Pelco since the early 1980’s, I knew ownership through all the transitions they made. Schneider Electric was not able to manage a company and industry they didn’t understand.
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John Honovich
Update: Adam Tabakian is out as Pelco VP Sales for North America and Latin America, Pelco confirmed to IPVM.
Incoming CEO Takahashi starts this Friday, November 1st.
Tabakian had no industry experience coming in to Pelco but he had worked with recently exited Pelco CEO Theolier at Sensata.
I don't know the internals of the situation but, generally speaking, with a new incoming CEO who has lots of industry sales connections, it would make sense for Takahashi to pick his own VP of sales. It will be interesting to see who is the choice.
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John Honovich
Pelco CEO short video talking about an 'end to end solution' and the 'new Pelco':
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John Honovich
Pelco has another new video, this one is 2 minutes longer than the brief first one. It's pretty generic in vision, mission, etc.:
It is not necessarily a bad thing, indeed, at some level, if they simply act like a normal company (Hi Schneider!), they could improve significantly.
There is also a new interview at SIW with Pelco's new CEO which is one hell of a puff piece, including quotes like:
From what people close to AMAG have told me, things were not that great at AMAG over the last few years. He could certainly turn Pelco around regardless but I don't see AMAG bringing that much credibility, never mind the issues at Quantum Secure.
Takahashi also observes:
I think that's a fair statement but it's quite a low metric - Pelco, our technology is in a poor position but not really poor?
Again, I still think they can substantially improve things simply by not being Schneider.
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