SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Safety Business Affiliation (SIA) has revealed the 2026 honorees for the 25 on the RISE Award, a program offered by SIA’s RISE group for rising safety leaders.
This initiative “honors 25 safety leaders of at present and tomorrow for his or her impactful contributions to advancing the safety trade,” in keeping with the SIA announcement.
The 2026 class of awardees will obtain funding to attend Securing New Floor (SNG), the safety trade’s govt convention, and be acknowledged throughout a particular ceremony on the convention, which is scheduled for Oct. 20-21 in New York Metropolis.
SIA 25 on the RISE Awards nominations have been open to safety trade professionals who’re below 40 or who’ve lower than two years of expertise within the trade.
Who Are the 2026 SIA 25 on the RISE Award Winners?
This 12 months’s 25 on the RISE honorees, acknowledged throughout six award classes, are:
Branding
Awarded to people who excel in content material creation and genuine private branding to construct a novel worth proposition and achieve affect for themselves and/or their corporations
Tradition
Awarded to people who’re dedicated to elevating variety, fairness and inclusion and/or company social duty by creating impactful change throughout the safety trade
- Vivian Brown, lead agent, BOS Safety
- Joseline Farias, undertaking supervisor, Convergint
- Alicia Janowicz, HR enterprise companion, Axis Communications
- Josh Tucker, territory gross sales supervisor, ASSA ABLOY Door Safety Options
Frontline
Awarded to people actively and bodily within the discipline who’re going above and past to supply customer support/set up within the safety trade
- Sebastian Pérez, discipline engineer, skilled providers, Genetec
Development
Awarded to people who’ve made vital progress in the direction of growing, implementing and streamlining business-related applications to create a aggressive benefit and obtain success
- Jim Hamilton, enterprise buyer success supervisor, March Networks
- Tradd Kendrick, enterprise improvement supervisor, System Surveyor
- Colby Mulry, director of channel gross sales, Ambient.ai
- Averie Oetjen, gross sales operations supervisor, Minuteman Safety & Life Security
- Fatima Spata-Buzzone, operations supervisor, Grid Squared Techniques
- Steven Swavely, distribution account supervisor, Resideo
Innovation
Awarded to people who display thought management surrounding new safety know-how and reimagine conventional approaches to strategic administration
- Brittany Dupree, senior director of selling, Everon
- Alma Lundberg, AI product supervisor, HID
- Rushi Mehta, software program developer, ZKTeco USA
- Nicole Swartwout, enterprise improvement supervisor, physique worn options, Axis Communications
- Sarah Teskova, vice chairman, Americas, Sharry
Management
Awarded to people in administration who possess excellent management qualities and set an instance for others to comply with
- Austin Bormann, channel gross sales govt, Motorola Options
- Cody Boyd, regional vice chairman, Tech Techniques
- Rachel Brosey, customer support consultant, dormakaba Americas
- Ligy George, program supervisor, safety and digital programs, M.C. Dean
- Hannah Livergood, director of selling, Outlined Advertising and marketing
- Maria Sturges, lead undertaking coordinator, Northland Controls
“The 25 on the RISE program is the main trade recognition program for younger professionals, and we’re proud to acknowledge the 2026 class of awardees,” says SIA CEO Don Erickson within the affiliation announcement.
“Now in its fourth 12 months, this system had an impressive candidate pool for 2026 and this 12 months’s awardees are making significant impacts throughout their organizations and the broader safety trade in areas like consulting, advertising and marketing, gross sales, tech innovation and govt management,” he says. “We sit up for celebrating this 12 months’s spectacular class of honorees at Securing New Floor.”
