Becklar Safety and Monitoring
Monitoring
Becklar Safety and Monitoring
Monitoring

About Becklar Monitoring

Protecting People and Their Valuable Assets

Our History​

Becklar Monitoring has a long history of innovation, caring, as we protect people and their valuable assets. Based in Utah, our connection to the West runs deep. Even in our name, Becklar, is derived from the Bechler River in Yellowstone National Park, where our founder, Josh Garner, enjoyed peaceful days fishing with his father.

Our monitoring journey goes back 40 years to when AvantGuard Monitoring began operations in Ogden, Utah. Our pioneering spirit has guided us ever since, from acquiring Freeus, the leading North American provider of mobile personal emergency response systems (PERS), to establishing Becklar, to uniting the Freeus and AvantGuard businesses into one entity. Future acquisitions of Armstrongs Monitoring based in Canada and Eyeforce Remote Guarding have established Becklar Monitoring as the industry leader in providing a comprehensive suite of critical event monitoring solutions including video & remote guarding.  

Our History

Becklar Monitoring
Becklar Monitoring History

Our Mission

Knowing you have a partner you can trust

We bring together innovative technologies and caring people to enhance our customers’ freedom, confidence, and peace of mind. We envision a future of a safer, more connected world.

Our Core Values
We Care FIRST

At Becklar, we strive daily to show our customers, partners, and employees that we care by living the following values.

Becklar Core Company Values We Care F.I.R.S.T.

Fun

We love what we do. We invest in developing a rewarding, fun culture. We laugh and joke, enjoying the company of our coworkers.

Innovation

We lead, not follow. We believe that innovative solutions that make the world a safer place happen at the intersection of humanity and technology. We are driven to be better every day.

Relationships

“We” is always greater than “I”. We build authentic relationships where everyone has a voice. We lean on each other, trusting that everyone is doing our part. 

Service

Caring is at our core value. We support and serve our customers, team members, and communities in moments that matter.

Teamwork

None of us is as smart as all of us. We combine exceptional partners, coworkers, and customers to collaboratively and passionately achieve a common goal.

Our Leadership Team

Steve Richards

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Steve Richards is a seasoned CEO with over three decades of leadership at numerous publicly traded and private companies. A skilled leader known for systemically driving growth via organic and acquisition-driven initiatives, his track record includes experience across technology, media, communications, business process outsourcing, and recurring services firms, all marked by a consistent history of driving transformational growth and exceptional client service.

Josh Garner

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN & FOUNDER
Josh Garner founded Becklar and launched his career as the founder of AvantGuard. He built the company from a small mom-and-pop central station to a national leader in the wholesale monitoring space. This 3rd generation alarm guru led AvantGuard to become one of the fastest-growing wholesale monitoring companies in the United States. He saw the opportunity to expand the markets served by acquiring Freeus and forming Becklar.

Ray Langhaim

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Ray Langhaim is an experienced CFO with numerous publicly traded and private companies. Leadership and our We Care First core values are rooted within him. Ray has worked with companies from $40m to $3B. He started his career after graduating from Fresno State in 1990 with Ernst and Young in San Jose, California and received his CPA. During his assignment as an expat in the Philippines he learned to SCUBA dive. He also enjoys football and being a husband, father, and grandfather.

Tyler Tribe

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCT OFFICER
Tyler Tribe is a seasoned technology executive with almost three decades of experience in creating software solutions. He is passionate about helping organizations develop world-class customer and employee experiences, building strong teams, and collaborating on vision and strategy for global corporations and small and medium-sized businesses. Before joining Becklar, he spent twenty years at IBM.

Clint Halverson

CHIEF PEOPLE & ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
Clint Halverson is a people and culture leader with an HR heart and a business mind—a strategic leader with broad and diversified business experience. Clint has extensive experience leading organizational design and effectiveness, human resources, culture and engagement, talent acquisition, total rewards, and talent development. Before joining the Becklar team, he spent 15 years with a publicly traded real estate company, ultimately spending his last six years as their head of people.

Kirsten Kelley

VP OF MARKETING & NEW
OFFERINGS
Kirsten Kelley brings over two decades of enterprise software offering management and marketing experience to the Becklar team. Kirsten spent most of her career at IBM in various roles, including sales, channel management, product and offering management, and marketing. A proven leader, she worked with cross-functional teams and partners to improve customer retention and analyst recognition for IBM products and services.

Justin Bailey

PRESIDENT, BECKLAR MONITORING
Justin Bailey is President of Becklar Monitoring and has led the company through dramatic growth and evolution. Beyond expanding the customer base, he developed hybrid partnership models that leverage AvantGuard’s technology. He joined AvantGuard in 2010 as VP of Strategic Development, leading their IT team in software development and developing and implementing various technological advancements, such as AI monitoring.

Troy Iverson

SR. VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES
Troy Iverson is the Vice President of Sales at Becklar Monitoring. He has been with Becklar for fifteen years and brought incredible growth to the dealer and subscriber base at Becklar Monitoring. Iverson's noteworthy contributions go beyond the day to day tasks he oversees. He truly cares about his customers and the people he works with. Iverson has been major contributing part of building a company and creating one of the most successful sales teams in the industry.

Terri Bendixsen

VP OF ACCOUNTING & CONTROLLER
Terri Bendixsen is a driven financial leader with 15 years of accounting experience for various companies in Nutrition, Manufacturing, Retail, Real Estate, and Healthcare. Her background working with public and private companies provides a diverse skillset in financial reporting, process improvement, and team leadership. She thrives at implementing processes to facilitate growth and drive financial success.

Richard Watts

VP INFORMATION SECURITY
As an information technology and cyber security leader Richard Watts brings over two decades of IT experience to Becklar as the Vice President of Information Security. He is a strategic leader with a clear track record of building and managing teams responsible for enterprise-scale projects, including data center design, redundant network connectivity, enterprise telephony, and cyber security initiatives for privately held and large, publicly traded companies.

Jeffrey Bradford

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
Jeff Bradford brings 25 years of extensive marketing experience and insights to the Becklar team. Jeff worked with a national tech company in the healthcare arena where he created a new brand and go-to-market launch strategy for their new Products and Services Division. Today Jeff leads the Becklar Marketing Team, orchestrating all marketing activities for Becklar and its subsidiaries, AvantGuard Monitoring Centers and Freeus.

Floribel Duran

VP PEOPLE & TALENT
Floribel brings over a decade of People and Talent experience to Becklar. Floribel thrives by leveraging her business knowledge to support business partners and leaders in organizational and staffing strategies. Her passion in HR is driving employee engagement through strengthening culture and having a nimble mindset in a rapidly changing work environment.

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