Sentry Industry Solutions

Sentry Interactive delivers smart building access, visitor management, and workplace communication solutions to all industries. Modernize your workplace, wherever it may be with Sentry integrations.

Solutions for All Sectors

Commercial

Smartphone keyless entry for employees and visitors with the ability to manage multiple sites as easily as one remotely.

Industrial

Maximize on-site safety, compliance, and security by making access points keyless and preventing lost or stolen access passes.

Residential

Provide tenants with contactless entry and share time-limited access to tradesmen from anywhere, at any time.

Education

Smart keyless entry and management for schools and universities, digitalizing physical ID cards and e-registration.

Financial

Securing financial facilities and data with banking-level encryption and smartphone NFC door entry.

Hospitality

Provide members and guests with a mobile NFC digital pass and eliminate the need to issue physical access passes.

Logistics

Save time through contactless entry and keyless storage options. No more forgetting keys, your smartphone is your key.

Healthcare

Introduce NFC access to your health centre for smart, safe, and seamless access and identification of staff and patients.

Fitness & Health

Fitness & Wellness

Maximize membership potential with our cloud-based access control solution, empowering members with digital passes for increased revenue.

Solutions for All Departments

Risk and Compliance

It’s your job to maintain legal and regulatory compliance by researching, analyzing, and communicating regulatory requirements and obtaining the appropriate approvals.

Simply put it’s a lot of responsibility and pressure. We understand that, and here’s how we have helped others with the same pressing challenges:

  • Post-COVID workplace. (Hybrid work environments are the new normal; Capacity Management, VMS, Enhanced Access controls are key)
  • Company culture. Post Pandemic (Inclusion and diversity) FOMO,
  • Big data & people analytics. (how to spot trends and document your polices)
  • Compliance resilience.

Operations

Sometimes that “keeping the whole wheel spinning” task isn’t as easy as some may think. Operations leadership has had to manage multiple economic and health crises, unparalleled attrition, and an ever evolving workplace and employee base. These conditions have driven new employee and customer engagement protocols, remote working on an unprecedented scale, the re-engineering of supply chains, and numerous bankruptcies and consolidations. CEO’s are demanding new and creative ways of doing business. You don’t have to navigate this new world on your own, here are just a few ways we can help:
  • Business continuity
  • Reduction in attrition
  • Implementation of regulatory policy
  • Efficient management of brick and mortar facilities
  • Profitability and growth post pandemic

Front of House

Facilities professionals have to lead with purpose and Sentry Interactive enables them to do just that. Not only are you dealing with normal management of buildings, offices and people, now you have to deal with a whole new plane of existence. Here’s where we can provide facilities management with practical solutions:
  • Improving Space Utilization
  • Managing Workplace Technology
  • Managing Meeting Rooms
  • Managing Facility Maintenance
  • Planning Moves and Expansions
  • Helping Employees Navigate the Workplace
  • Improving the Employee Experience

Physical Security

Allowing for the right or credentialed access to the facility has been the long standing mission of the security team. They keep a watchful eye on the facility and the valuable assets within, providing the necessary access to keep the wrong people out and the right people feeling safe and secure. In today’s world it’s an extremely important job. Sentry Interactive can play a key role in advancing the first line of defense and access points for your team. Here are a few themes we help with, that we’re sure your security team has top of mind…
  • Focus on privacy protection
  • Cloud based access control
  • Access control aggregation
  • Mobile access control
  • Supply chain line of sight
  • Access control and video analytics solutions

Marketing & Communications

You wear a lot of hats in your world, but one of the most important is keeping the brand on track by communicating effectively with one of your most important audiences… your employees. They are the biggest advocates for your brand and without them, you are communicating empty promises to the marketplace. Sentry allows you to communicate and connect at the right time with the right people.
  • Internal marketing
  • Brand activation
  • Employee engagement
  • Revenue generating advertising
  • Predictive analytics
  • Targeted messaging structures

Value-Add Partnerships

You understand the ever-evolving world we live in, and you’re re aligning your portfolio or products to better appeal to new and existing customers. We are actively seeking strategic partners to complement our go-to-market strategy and grow your top line and our marketshare. Let’s talk about how we can help each other.
  • Revenue focused partner model
  • Easy to understand and articulate to customers
  • Straightforward installation
  • Appliance as a Service “SaaS” model

Ready to Go?

Whether you’re a startup or a global enterprise, we’ve got a product and plan perfect for you. Gain smart keyless entry that works with any door entry system.

William Bainborough

Board of Directors

William is an experienced British entrepreneur, founder, and accomplished board executive and advisor for a number of businesses. He is the CEO and co-founder of Doordeck, the world’s only true cloud-based access control aggregator. He is also the managing director and founder of Group Secure, a leader in providing security, CCTV, and access control solutions, products, and installation for high-net-worth individuals in the UK. 

William established his first business at just seventeen and brings 20-plus years of in-depth experience and industry knowledge. He has a proven track record for building businesses from the ground up—and then leading them to profitability and a successful exit across a myriad of sectors including hospitality, retail, security, telecommunications, and e-commerce. William’s leadership, vision, and experience in creating cutting-edge SaaS-based technology platforms will prove invaluable for Sentry Interactive moving forward.

Denis Hébert

Denis Hébert

CHAIRMAN & CEO

Hébert began his career at Honeywell International where he held several leadership positions including Managing Director for the Automation and Controls business in France and eventually President of the NexWatch Corporation from 1999-2002. Hébert led HID Global as President & CEO over a transformative 12-year period from 2002-2015, where he provided strategic guidance and grew the business tenfold through a mix of strong organic and acquisitive growth. Most recently, Hébert was President of Feenics Corporation which is a cloud-based access control company that was successfully sold to ACRE LLC at the end of 2021. Hébert also served on the Board of Directors for the Security Industry Association (SIA) from 2009-2020 and was nominated to be Chairman of the Board for SIA from 2016-2018. He is currently Chairman of the Board for Nightingale Security based in Newark, CA.

Stephen Taylor Matthews

Board of Directors
Stephen is a very accomplished attorney, member of the Texas State Bar, licensed commercial real estate broker, and an avid philanthropist. He is an experienced executive board member, serving in leadership positions for more than 20 community councils and corporate boards—ranging from Boy Scouts of America to the ABBA Business Leaders Council, and most recently the American Bank BOD, the Real Estate Council of Austin, and the Marbridge Foundation BOT. With more than 35 years experience, Stephen and his firm, Barrond & Adler, L.L.P. are devoted to eminent domain cases in Texas.

Jon Davis

Board of Directors

Mr. Davis is an Experienced corporate board member, having served on boards of public, private equity-backed, and venture-backed companies. Jon possesses deep industry expertise in dairy, food processing, food technology and manufacturing, and food, beverage, and entertainment services. 

During Jon’s tenure of 25 plus years, he’s led operations, research and development, and mergers and acquisitions. He’s served as CEO and has been the founder and active board member for many successful enterprises—from startups to billion-dollar corporations. While COO and CEO of Davisco Foods International, Jon built a state-of-the-art cheese plant which was awarded the United States Dairy processing plant of the year in 2005 by Dairy Foods magazine. Currently, Jon is active with several non-dairy projects, including investments in local real estate, the Wayzata Brewworks, and his latest venture the new CōV restaurant in Edina’s Galleria.

Joe Caldwell

Founder and Chairman of the Board

Joe is an American entrepreneur, investor, and accomplished executive. He has co-founded, founded, and led many successful businesses, including US Internet, a leading fiber internet service provider, Securence, a leading provider of email filtering software, and Ravon, an industry-leading digital voice communications service. 

It was Joe’s venture, Municipal Parking Services (MPS), that inspired him in 2020 to start Sentry Interactive, an advanced touchless and staffless detection platform.

Caldwell currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board for Municipal Parking Services (MPS), a global tech company based in Austin, TX responsible for inventing and patenting technologies that assist in parking and security enforcement.

Joe was named one of Minnesota’s 500 Most Powerful Business Leaders for the past two years—and is a seasoned corporate board member. He’s served on boards of public, private equity-backed, and venture-backed companies—and has deep industry expertise in all aspects of digital technology.

Jason Bohrer

Jason Bohrer

Board of Directors

Jason Bohrer is one of the visionaries behind our mission to bring people back together safely and securely, in any environment, through Sentry’s advanced digital communications and detection platform. With over two decades of senior leadership experience, Jason’s track record of success spans across sales, operations, product innovation, strategy, and technology for domestic and global companies like Bexar Technology Partners, CPI Card Group, HID Global, and Motorola, Inc. Prior to launching Sentry Interactive, Jason was actively involved with several key technology transitions across multiple industries, including the contact and contactless EMV transitions in the U.S. payments industry and the adoption of smart card and mobile technologies in the global access and identity market. Jason was an inaugural member of the University of Chicago Executive Institute and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He also serves as the Executive Director for two industry-leading not-for-profit organizations: the Secure Technology Alliance and the U.S. Payments Forum.
Brent Terry

Brent Terry

Chief Operating Officer
Brent Terry leads the operations and solutions organizations at Sentry. This includes all product innovation, development, and operations management. A veteran in the technology space, Brent has more than 30 years of experience across a myriad of industries, like physical security technology and building automation, SAAS, hardware and software product development, internet, digital TV, interactive TV, digital media, telecommunications, and medical products and services. Prior to Sentry, Brent has spun up successful startups and led high-performing teams for some of the biggest global, Fortune 500 companies, including ARRIS, Conerco, Motive Communications, SeaChange International, and IBM. Brent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana. He also is the committee Chairman and Program Director for a non-profit organization responsible for the rollout of smart cards for physicians and first responders.