After completing a distinguished tour of duty in the Israeli Military, Mr. Kozak came to the United States and began a career in the Security Industry. In 1976 he started Universal Alarm Systems Inc., and built it into one of the largest and most successful Burglar Alarm Companies, with armed guard response and one of the most sophisticated UL Approved Central Stations in the nation. Kozak sole Universal to ADT in 1990, and remained a consultant to ADT for several years.
In 1996, Mr. Kozak founded IntelliSec, Inc., a high-end systems integration company that engineered, installed, monitored and serviced many of the most complex security systems integration projects in the nation. In 1999, Patricoff Venture Inc., a New York based Venture Capital Group partnered with Mr. Kozak by investing IntellisSec to begin acquiring and consolidating other Systems Integration companies. Mr. Kozak led the effort to make IntelliSec one of the largest Integrators in the nation. In the year 2002, while retaining 33% of IntelliSec Holdings, Inc., Mr. Kozak left the company to begin work on his next exciting venture, which involved activities that eventually led to the founding of Elite Interactive Solutions.
Throughout his 35-year career in the Security Industry, which included senior management of mergers and acquisitions, Mr. Kozak has been responsible for conceiving and implementing many highly successful growth strategies as well as developing, cultivating, and maintaining long term relationships among senior management of many major companies within the security industry.
Elite Interactive Solutions, Inc. established in 2007, provides the platform for Mr. Kozak to utilize all of his experience and expertise in order to address his extremely passionate focus on all categories of business loss, including shrinkage, disgruntled employees, organized crime and frivolous lawsuits, vandalism and others.
With Elite, Kozak is revolutionizing the security guarding and monitoring industries. Elite uses Kozak’s unique patent pending methodologies for securing commercial facilities. The primary element of Elite’s approach involves addressing all the challenges that potentially interfere with delivering effective service. The process begins with a forensic analysis of the subject facility, which is the most critical element required to prevent crime, then implementation of custom engineered solutions for each facility, and finally, provision of interactive remote guarding that focuses on significantly enhancing security while substantially reducing security cost.
Kozak has moved Elite well past the equipment-centric Security Industry, where guards and systems have failed to deliver true crime and loss prevention. Elite’s equipment agnostic approach to security services has delivered a unique proof of concept that has resulted in the total satisfaction of clients. They get results and accountability, a true differentiation from the industry status quo.
Louis Hook – Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer:
Mr. Hook’s experience includes serving as President of LCH Technology Partners, LLC, which provided professional consulting services in the management of technology. He has over 20 years experience in the communications technology and systems management fields. From January – August 2009, he served as the Transitional CIO for the San Jose Airport, and has held the position of CIO at Los Angeles World Airports from 12/2003-6/2007. Through his consulting engagements and positions, Mr. Hook provided management, consulting, and project management services to cities, universities, and both non-profit and for-profit organizations. Other experience includes 15 years at the University of California, Los Angeles; where his most recent position there was as the Director of the Communications Technology Services Division, which consisted of a 70,000 customer, telecommunications, network connectivity, and Internet Service Provider business. The UCLA experience also included service in both Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer roles for the 1000 staff Facilities Management Division. Hook earned a BA from Occidental College with a concentration in Economics and an MBA from Harvard University. He also completed two years of coursework in the Graduate Economics Department at MIT. Click to hear message from Elite’s COO
William Gorski – Vice President and Chief Development Officer:
Mr. Gorski has over 34 years experience in the electronic building systems business, 17 of those in security systems, including operations, strategy development, mergers, acquisitions, divestiture and strategic alliance. He ran several internal start up businesses for Siemens Building Technologies including Security Systems, Critical Environments and Programmable Controller Integration. All the businesses were grown from $0 revenue to a total of over $170 million at a ROS of > 10%. Mr. Gorski is a well regarded leader in the security industry serving 3 years as a member of the Security Industry Association (SIA) board of directors, 1 year as Vice Chairman-Chairman Elect, 2 years as Chairman of the Board and 2 years as Past-Chairman on the Executive Committee. He also actively serves as a member of SIA’s Standards Committee and the Security Industry Standards Council. Mr. Gorski received a Bachelor’s Degree, with honors, in Electronic Engineering Technology from DeVry Tech and an MBA, with high honors, from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management – named a Hotchkiss Scholar. He also was granted two US patents, #5,634,590 and #6,059,260. Click to hear message from Elite’s CDO (TBD).
Keith Bushey – Vice President and Chief Protection Officer:
Mr Bushey is a forty-five year law enforcement veteran who retired from the Los Angeles Police Department as a Commander, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department as a Deputy Chief, and the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel. Other law enforcement experience includes having served as a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County, a deputy game warden for the State of California, as the Marshal of San Bernardino County, and as law enforcement liaison for the District Attorney of Los Angeles County. He has written and published extensively, and continues to lecture throughout the United States and Canada, primarily in the areas of leadership, supervision, unusual occurrences, and ethics. Click to hear message from Elite’s CPO
