Traverse City, MI – Salamander Technologies, Inc. is pleased to announce a strategic investment from TruSec, Inc. that will help position Salamander as the national standard and a global player for Resource Accountability solutions in both public and industrial safety markets. The companies will explore further consolidation and global growth opportunities prior to year-end. To this end, Salamander has added TruSec CEO, Jeff Hattara, to its Board of Directors effective immediately. Hattara was formerly CEO of Datacard Group, a global leader inentity management solutions and printers.
“I am excited about this strategic partnership with TruSec and immediate opportunities to accelerate growth in our core domestic market as well as penetrate international markets,” stated Russ Miller, President and CEO of Salamander Technologies. “Since his days at Datacard, Jeff Hattara has been a supporter of our vision for uniting our country’s first responders with a common system forentifying and tracking personnel and assets during incidents and emergencies. He brings a wealth of experience and connections in industrial and global markets – key areas for our growth strategy.”
“We are thrilled about joining forces with Salamander,” stated Jeff Hattara. “They are the dominant leader for resource accountability in the U.S. emergency services market with the best solution, the best brand, compelling intellectual property, and trust within the community of first responders. We intend to extend Salamander’s solution and public safety pedigree into adjacent industrial and international safety markets. The prospects for growth are unlimited.”
Salamander Technologies is the nation’s leading provider of tracking solutions and field-based incident management tools. Salamander’s pedigree lies in its ability to create high-capacity cards and site passes and then use those cards to track anyone at the site of an incident, including first responders, mutual aid, victims, evacuees, visitors, and others. The company’s “Data-in-the-Tag™” advantage uses PDF 417 barcodes, RFID, and smart card technologies to increase site security, health and safety, time savings, and federal reimbursements. Based in Traverse City, Mich., the company provides simple, scalable, and interoperable accountability solutions to the public safety, government and private sector markets that comply with National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Personalentity Verification (PIV) mandates. The Salamander Technologies interTRAX® Suite is protected by U.S. Patent No. 5,596,652; 5,793,882; 5,573,278; 6,761,312; 7,191,934. www.salamandertechnologies.com.
TruSec (TSI), Inc. is a privately held management company dedicated to providing large-scale secureentity and credentialing services to the public and private sectors worldwide. TSI also provides integration services with payment and access control systems. The company is headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota with sales and service offices in Washington State, California, Kansas, Maine and North Carolina.
For more information, contact: Cathy Maddasion Salamander Technologies, Inc. Phone: 231-932-4397 Email: cmaddasion@salamandertechnologies.com Web: www.salamandertechnologies.com