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Russell MacDonnell Built the Business That Answers When Alarms Speak
After a banking crisis took away the company he had assembled, Russell MacDonnell returned with a new investor group, built again and chose the long game: a family-run monitoring business designed around people, preparation and signals that cannot be ignored.
Grant Walter
Grant Walter is the Chairman, CEO and President of KoreLock, a Denver-based IoT technology company that sells turnkey embedded smart lock platforms to the lock and access-control industry. Rather than making locks or software, KoreLock builds the printed-circuit-board module, firmware and cloud that let any manufacturer ship a Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connected lock. Its patent-protected, gateway-free Wi-Fi direct technology sits inside tens of thousands of locking devices across 65+ countries. In 2023 Walter was named a Security Industry Innovator for that WiFi-ready platform.