About Us
Gary D'Aries is an electronic security entrepreneur. He began his career as a manager at RUSCO Electronic Systems in 1979 before founding Integrated Access Systems (IAS) in 1982, where he was CEO for over twenty years. While running IAS Gary developed the Geoffrey Access Control System which helped grow IAS into a thirty million dollar, 150 employee internationally recognized company. IAS was sold to Ingersoll Rand in 2003, and Gary became Vice President within the Security Technologies Division. At Ingersoll Rand Gary spent almost seven years managing the profitable software and controls business unit and also created the Bright Blue access control product as well as serving on the Senior Leadership Committee developing technology strategy.
Gary Johnson has over thirty years of experience in the access control industry. His past experience includes being the Director of Engineering first at LINX Technologies and later at Geoffrey Industries, where he was responsible for all hardware, software and firmware development. Under his management the Geoffrey product offering grew to be a global enterprise solution. Gary was also a Software Center of Excellence Lead at Ingersoll Rand and director of Engineering for the Schlage Security Management System and Bright Blue products.
Dave Chisholm is a Stanford University graduate whose honors thesis focused on robust network communication and efficient software for digital signal processing. Dave has worked at IBM's prestigious Extreme Blue development program and consulted for various institutions including the University of California at Berkeley and the Swiss Consulate in San Francisco. Dave worked at IAS / Geoffrey and then Ingersoll Rand for eight years, managing software development on several projects and implementing complex features such as database redundancy. Dave founded Calypso Technologies, LLC, a consulting and technical services company, in 2009 and directed all operations there for two years.