Sondae Esposito, who has served as USPA Worldwide’s Govt Vice President for a number of years, has been appointed to President, succeeding Michael Evans, who has held the place since 2005. Evans will hold his place as CEO.
MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Sondae Esposito was elevated to guide USPA Worldwide, which has greater than 5000 safety contractors, together with Panic Room USA, a secure room group. The information comes only one week after USPA opened its latest chapter in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. This promotion might point out {that a} lady would in the future lead one of many world’s main safety companies.
Michael Evans, USPA’s President and Chief Govt Officer for 16 years, will concentrate on the Kingsman Division and stay the CEO, in response to a USPA consultant.
Esposito and Evans’ plans have been revealed in an inner communication simply hours after USPA marketed a job opening for a Vice President of Operations, a Manhattan-based position with a beginning annual wage of $225k with 10% revenue sharing, on their web site.
The ascension of Esposito to the highest place on the safety agency is probably going a sign that Evans, who has led USPA since 2005, is leaning towards naming a girl to succeed him when he retires.
“Sondae has a confirmed monitor document of working auspiciously throughout the corporate and is well-known and revered within the safety trade for her distinctive character and capabilities,”
Evans stated in a press release commending on Sondae’s efficiency.
The substitute of the President is a major change in USPA. Evans is broadly thought to be one of many safety trade’s most profitable CEOs, having established anti-piracy, abduction help, and anti-kidnapping divisions in international locations resembling Mexico and Africa, in addition to founding Kingsman 16 years in the past and establishing USPA Nationwide Safety, the corporate’s home uniformed safety branches. Evans has been Esposito’s mentor since she joined the corporate in 2007 when she started working within the enterprise improvement division.
The USPA emblem might be discovered on uniforms as far afield as Sierra Leone, Mogadishu, and parts of Southeast Asia, in addition to the Caribbean Islands, Europe, and Canada.
When requested why Evans selected a girl to guide world operations in a male-dominated trade, he said, “I feel Christopher Hitchens said it greatest when he was requested methods to restore the issues in some violent locations of the world.” “We remedy these issues by empowering ladies,” he remarked. I embraced his counsel a few years in the past, and it’s the key to my success and the USPA’s long-term viability.”
In response to an inner message, Esposito has already taken over as president and will probably be accountable for appointing the agency’s subsequent vice chairman by July 1.
