36 Security Dealer & Integrator / www.SecurityInfoWatch.com April 2017
America's Fastest Growing
Security Dealers and Systems Integrators
I
magine a room filled with the owners of the 10 largest ADT deal-
ers in the country. en imagine that six of them decided to join
forces and merge together into a single, cohesive company. Wel-
come to the reality of SafeStreets USA, which, thanks to both
organic growth and mergers over the years, stands as the sec-
ond-fastest growing security service provider in SD&I;'s Fast50.
"e group of us have known each other for quite some time," explains
Kevin Gaylord, the newly named CEO of the combined SafeStreets USA.
"At one time, we were all independent companies, but all the owners knew
each other and started working together. One by one, each kept joining the
conglomerate. ose are the roots of the SafeStreets story."
e road to those six companies merging – Eversafe Security Systems,
First Detection Systems, AlarmTeam, Absolute Security, ASC Security USA
and Gaylord Security – began in 2008, when Todd Herman, Mike Robson
Succession
by Merger
SD&I; 2017 Fast50 No. 2:
Through regional
dealer acquisition,
SafeStreets USA
has paved both
its path to the
future and its
path to growth
and success
By Paul Rothman
Kevin Gaylord, who
founded Gaylord
Security back in 1995,
was named CEO of
the newly merged
SafeStreets USA in
March, following the
retirements of Todd
Herman, Mike Robson
and Barry Simmons.