Judges

Katherine Podolas

Industry Representative

Katherine Podolas, CPP, SCPM, is a security professional with 20 years of experience in security operations, risk management, and leadership development within the private-security sector, working closely with public-sector partners including law enforcement and government agencies. Her experience spans multiple industry verticals including healthcare, critical infrastructure, aviation, higher education, commercial real estate, retail, and corporate environments.

She currently serves as Global Program Director within GardaWorld’s Learning & Development Centre of Excellence, where she leads the development of global leadership and professional development programs supporting security personnel and operational leaders across multiple regions.

Podolas holds the Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation through ASIS International and has been appointed to serve on the ASIS North American Regional Board of Directors for the 2026–2028 term, supporting the advancement of the security profession across the region.

In recognition of her industry contributions, Podolas was named a 2026 Security Industry Association (SIA) Women in Security Forum Power 100 honoree. She remains actively engaged in initiatives supporting the advancement of the security profession and the development of future security leaders.

Kim Caron

Canadian Security Association

Kim Caron’s career in the security industry is truly impressive! Starting as a monitoring station operator in 1988, she has climbed the ranks to hold significant positions such as Central Station Manager, Director of Operations, and Director of Sales. Her extensive experience has given her a deep understanding of the industry’s challenges and successes.

Kim has also been actively involved with various associations in Canada and the US, working on alarm by-laws, technician licensing, and more. Her contributions to CANASA are notable, having served in multiple roles, including National President for three years. One of her proudest moments was receiving the R.A. Henderson Award for her outstanding contributions to the industry.

Additionally, Kim has shared her expertise on industry panels, podcasts, and has been inducted into the Hall of Fame by SP&T magazine.

Walter Chan

Internation Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)

Walter Chan is a retired Ontario Correctional Officer and accomplished leader in security and risk management, with over 27 years of experience in public sector corporate security. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he has overseen recruitment, training, investigations, and strategic development for one of the country’s largest municipal security operations. Walter holds numerous professional designations spanning security management, risk management, project management, quality assurance, threat assessment and management, investigations, and crime prevention. As an accredited master security instructor, trainer, and program designer, he remains deeply engaged in advancing industry standards through active membership in several not-for-profit organizations, including the International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO), ASIS International, the Canadian Security Association, the Canadian Association of Threat Assessment Professionals, and the International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners. Reflecting his commitment to education and workforce development, Walter also serves on multiple College Program Advisory Committees. His work is driven by a strong dedication to operational excellence, professional ethics, and public safety.

George Hanna

Internation Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)

With more than two decades in strategic security leadership, George has guided organizations across municipal government, higher education, healthcare, and private sector in transforming risk into enterprise value, merging strategic business thinking with advanced security practice.

An MBA-trained executive and holder of the CFE, CPP, and CRM designations, he has led policy-level initiatives that modernize risk governance, embed resilience, and position security as a core driver of organizational performance.

Through his commitment to the International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO), George contributes to the advancement of certification-based career pathways and inclusive workforce development, efforts aimed at raising professional standards across the industry.

As a judge for the Outstanding Security Performance Awards, he is committed to recognizing achievements that reflect innovation, measurable impact, and ethical, principled leadership—the hallmarks of tomorrow’s security excellence.

Helen Perry-Raycraft

Canadian Security Association

Helen is the Security Operations Specialist, Emergency Management Organization, Saskatoon Fire Department. 

Prior her new position, she was the Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer at Brigadier Security Systems Ltd.  Her 25 years of security experience started when she was temporary summer relief at TS Surelock Security Ltd’s monitoring station. From there, she worked various roles in that organization before moving to Brigadier Security.  At Brigadier Security, she was Sales Manager and quickly rose in the organization to VP and COO. The skills and knowledge from her past positions brought her to the City of Saskatoon where she provides security solutions to meet the City’s corporate program.

Helen enjoys working with her team, customers, and contractors and loves finding solutions to security problems. 

The City of Saskatoon’s Corporate Security team has joined CANASA and supports the continued volunteer work that Helen provides. This is Helen’s third term on the National Board and is currently the CANASA Treasurer.  She has been an active volunteer within various school and sporting organizations in Saskatchewan and looks forward to continuing to contribute to CANASA.

Helen has 3 children and 3 step children and is a grandmother to 2 beautiful children.  She enjoys time at the lake to decompress from work life and is a recreational paddler and gardener.

JD Killeen

Canadian Security Lifesaver Association

JD Killeen is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and seasoned security practitioner with extensive experience spanning risk management, physical security operations, investigations, and business development. He brings to the judging panel a well-rounded, practitioner-level perspective on what genuine excellence in the security industry looks like.

Throughout his career, JD has developed a sharp instinct for identifying risk, and an equally strong talent for developing creative, cost-effective solutions that address it. He understands the real-world pressures security professionals face, and values innovation, practicality, and client-centred thinking in equal measure. These principles will guide his evaluation of nominees across all categories.

A respected figure in the Canadian security market, JD has built his reputation on forging strong partnerships, elevating team performance, and delivering lasting value for clients across diverse sectors. He is passionate about recognizing and celebrating the professionals who raise the bar for the industry, which makes the OSPAs an important cause.

Jason Larkin

Canadian Security Lifesaver Association

Jason Larkin is the Director, Security Operations at Menkes Property Management Services in Toronto, leading security programs across a major downtown commercial office portfolio totaling 4.5 million square feet of office space across seven towers, plus 500,000 square feet of retail. He oversees contract security service delivery, security technology and systems, incident preparedness, and operational governance in complex, high-traffic environments. Jason serves on industry boards including the Canadian Security Lifesaver Association, and Toronto’s PATHComm, and is active with the ASIS International Security Services Steering Committee, contributing to initiatives that advance professional standards, training, and recognition of frontline security professionals. He is also a member of the Downtown Toronto SAFE Group, and is a member Toronto SHIELD, supporting strong collaboration between property security and law enforcement. He brings a practical landlord-operator perspective to risk mitigation, emergency management, and integrating people, process, and technology in public-facing assets.

Steve Hoffman

Canadian Security Lifesaver Association

Steve brings more than 30 years of experience in the security industry, including the last 20+ years in senior leadership and executive roles. His expertise spans security, risk management, and operational leadership across both the public and private sectors. Steve holds a Master of Arts in Leadership from Royal Roads University and is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) through ASIS International. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Security Lifesaver Association (CSLA) and is passionate about celebrating excellence and recognizing the outstanding contributions of security professionals who help keep people, organizations, and communities safe.

Chad Kalyk

Canadian Security Lifesaver Association

Chad has been a board member of the Canadian Security Lifesaver Association since 2022 where he has helped advance the organizations purpose: recognizing security professionals whose direct actions resulted in saving an individual’s life, while also enhancing the public perception around the professionalism of the private security industry.

With nearly twenty years of experience in Canada’s private security industry, the last decade of which have been in an Executive capacity, Chad is strategic business leader who cares deeply about professionalizing the industry through strategic leadership, innovation, advancing best practices and fostering ongoing learning and development.

Roxanne Krause

Canadian Security Lifesaver Association

Roxanne serves on the board of the Canadian Security Lifesaver Association and brings over 20 years of experience in both the private and public sectors.

The Canadian Security Lifesaver Association® is a non-profit organization that seeks to recognize these security professionals and raise awareness of their significant contributions to Canadians. There are approximately 220,000 licensed security guards (professionals) in Canada (2024). These individuals interact with the public daily in every facet of their lives, through work, their residences, and entertainment facilities- literally where the public work, live and play.  Their efforts often go beyond the role of ‘policing and enforcement’. There are countless examples of unrecognized incidents in which security personnel, through their direct actions, have saved individuals lives.

Jessica Minion

Internation Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)

Jessica R. Minion serves as the Executive Director of the International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO), bringing more than 15 years of expertise in the financial security sector, with a specialization in anti-money laundering and regulatory compliance. A passionate advocate for professional development and global advancement in the security industry, Jessica combines strategic leadership with a deep commitment to elevating standards across the profession. IFPO—an internationally recognized organization dedicated to education, certification, and career development—continues to empower security professionals worldwide.

Parnell Lea

ASIS International, Canada

Parnell Lea is the current Security & Life Safety Director for Brookfield Properties Calgary office portfolio. He brings over 41 years of experience in security management for Class A office properties.

Parnell also provides leadership through active participation as a Chair of the BOMA Public Safety Committee and Calgary’s Core-Comm Radio System Steering Committee and  is an active member of the ASIS Chapter 162 Executive.

Parnell was awarded the Jim Gray Safer Calgary Award in 2007, the ASIS Ron Minion Canadian Security Pioneer Award in 2017, and BOMA’s Malcolm Bryce Award for Volunteer Leadership in 2007, 2020 and 2023.

Mike Soberal, CPP

ASIS International, Canada

Mike is a highly accomplished security professional with a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation and over 30 years of experience in security, investigations, health and safety, and risk management.

His career has included leadership roles with major organizations across industries, including aviation, cannabis, pharmaceuticals, logistics, transportation, and commercial properties, where he led national and international security programs, complex investigations, and large-scale system implementations. He currently work for the City of Red Deer Alberta as their Corporate Security Specialist and currently serves as a Director on the ASIS Canada Board.

Brine Hamilton

International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS)

Brine has spent over 15 years in the security industry focusing primarily on the healthcare vertical in roles ranging from frontline security to a number of leadership positions. Currently Brine is a System Engineer with Omnigo Software, and faculty at Fleming College (where he has twice been named a Top 10 Prof) and Seneca College in addition to serving on the Board of Directors as 2022 President of the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety.

Additionally Brine is the host of 3 podcasts, the recipient of the 2020 IAHSS Ontario Chapter Security & Safety Leadership Award and named to Canadian Security’s Top 10 Under 40 list in 2020.

Yolanda Hamblen

International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)

Yolanda brings over 16 years of information and physical security experience in roles leading strategy development for Cybersecurity Operations and Education & Awareness programs and managing Cybersecurity Engineering and Cybersecurity Emergency Response teams and Cybersecurity consulting, audits and compliance (GRC). Many years of her career have been spent in a risk advisory capacity supporting governance, compliance, risk assessment, fraud investigations, business continuity and disaster recovery planning, auditing, tabletop exercises and resilience training, in addition to cybersecurity transformation and program management.  Yolanda also served 7 years with the British Police Force as a Police Constable and Police Detective.

Yolanda also Hosts the Security Circle Podcast with (IFPO) The International Foundation for Protection Officers in pro bono ‘giving back to the community project’. The podcast series features ‘Best in Class’ guests that represent security excellence in our global security community with the singular purpose of connecting our communities’ front lines with industry giants, it has achieved a status of being in the top 22% of downloaded podcasts in the world. (Reported by Buzzsprout)

Yolanda sits on the Advisory Board of IFPO UK. She is an ASIS Member and sits on the ASIS International Information Security Steering Committee after serving 3 years tenure on the ASIS Physical Steering Committee, and she finds ways to connect with other women security professionals around the world in small projects, including mentoring young women professionals.

Yolanda is currently a feature columnist for Security Buyer and writes for each issue.

Yolanda co-hosts The Security Vine Podcast, the first podcast of its kind celebrating security, wine and entertainment.

Passionate about Mental Health Yolanda is now a Mental Health First Aider and advocates for good mental health and wellbeing in all roles both in and out of work. Yolanda is passionate about amplifying the voices of the marginalised in our communities and is also an LGBTQ+ Ally and promotes evolving allyship.

Glen Kitteringham

International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO)

Dr. Glen Kitteringham, DSyRM, M.Sc. has worked in the security industry since 1990. He worked as a security guard, supervisor, manager and director in a variety of in-house and contract positions in retail, property management and investigations. He managed a department of 110 managers and staff across nine properties in Western Canada for 13 years developing a first-class security program winning numerous awards. Consulting since 2010, clients come from agriculture, banking, education, energy, government, health care, property management, publishing, security, and technology.  As a consultant he has completed over 600 projects. 

Dr. Kitteringham obtained his Professional Doctorate in Security Risk Management from the University of Portsmouth, his Master of Science post-graduate degree in Security and Crime Risk Management, a Diploma in Criminology and numerous university certificates in Security Management, Terrorism Awareness, General Management, Adult Learning specializing in Adult and Community Education, e-Learning & Workplace Learning. He obtained his Certified Protection Professional designation through ASIS International in 2002.    

He has over 250 publishing credits to his name including four books: Security & Life Safety in the Commercial High-Rise, Lost Laptops = Lost Data, The Science and Art of Security Risk Assessment & Security Officer to Chief Security Officer: A Guide to Workforce Competencies, Risks and Career Planning. 

He has conducted research into Security Practitioners Perspectives of the Alberta Basic Security Training Programme, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in the Commercial High-Rise, Laptop Theft Prevention, Offender Perspectives on Shoplifting, How Security Officers Manage Workplace Violence, The Competence of Security Officers and What They Say About their Work, & co-led an international team in developing the Security Officers and Patrol Services Competency Model on behalf of the International Foundation for Protection Officers which was approved by the United States Department of Labor in 2022. He is currently conducting a meta-analysis of Security Officer Employee Retention Tactics. 

Roxanne Krause

Canada Lifesaver Security Association (CLSA)

Roxanne Krause has over 20 years experience in both the private and public service. She started her career as a uniformed, contract security guard and is now the Director, Security.

Parnell Lea

Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA)

Parnell Lea is the current Director of Security for Brookfield Properties Calgary portfolio. He brings over 37 years of experience in security management for Class A office properties.

Parnell also provides leadership through active participation as a Chair of the BOMA Public Safety Committee and Calgary’s Core-Comm Radio System Steering Committee and  is an active member of the ASIS Chapter 162 Executive.

Parnell was awarded the Jim Gray Safer Calgary Award in 2007, the ASIS Ron Minion Canadian Security Pioneer Award in 2017, and BOMA’s Malcolm Bryce Award for Volunteer Leadership in 2007, 2020 and 2023.

Roy Manias

Building Owners and Managers Association International (BOMA)

Roy Manias has over 30 years of Security and Life Safety Experience at high profile mixed-use urban properties. His career with The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited has progressed to his current role as Senior Director, Security and Life Safety.

As part of the Security Operations Team, Roy’s dedication is to provide strategic, policy and operations direction to Cadillac Fairview properties in the critical areas of Physical Security, Emergency Management, CCTV/ACMS Technology and Life Safety.  Prior to joining National Security Operations, Roy held overall operational responsibility of the Security and Life Safety Program at the Toronto Eaton Centre.

Roy holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honours from York University and is currently a Master’s Student in the Disaster and Emergency Management Program.

Roy is active in various committees in downtown Toronto including a long standing member and Chair of the BOMA Toronto, Security Risk Management Advisory Committee.

Patrick Neal

Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies – Vancouver (CASIS)

Patrick Neal has been involved in the justice and public safety field since 1982. During is career he has been in the Canadian Army, worked as a prison librarian, was a security supervisor at Vancouver General Hospital (the largest teaching/trauma hospital in British Columbia).

Throughout his career, he has used data and information to; develop better responses to justice and public safety incidents, inform policy development, develop insights into how people search for and use data and information.

In 2019, he completed his Doctor of Social Sciences at Royal Roads University (Victoria, BC). Most recently, Dr. Neal has shifted his focus to exploring the future of national security and public safety through the lens of transhumanism, augmented reality, and the human body as the conflict zone due to technology adoption in human organs.

His areas of interest are:  cyber deterrence, information weaponization, social contract theory, and intelligence /analysis within the cyber –domain.

When not in the cyberspace you can find his interests are exploring museums, old books, antiques, and fishing.

Jody Reid

Canadian Security Lifesaver Association

Jody Reid has been involved in the service and security industry for three decades. He started his career in security as a contract security officer working at a multitude of sites including shopping centers, industrial properties, and office towers. He spent 16-years at Chinook Centre, Calgary Alberta Canada’s largest shopping, dining, entertainment, and professional services complex. Jody worked his way up from patroller to bike patrol member, through multiple supervisory positions to the senior manager role.

Since 2014, Jody has been leading the security team at The Bow Tower, one of Western Canada’s largest and most prestigious skyscrapers. Education continues to be a cornerstone of Jody’s development. He started his formal post-secondary education at Loyalist College obtaining a Diploma in Law and Security Administration. He has completed Certificate Programs in Security Management from the University of Calgary, Emergency Management from the Justice Institute of British Columbia, and Adult Educator from Mount Royal University. Jody is currently the ASIS Canada Regional Vice President of Region 6C: Saskatchewan, Edmonton/Northern Alberta, Calgary/Southern Alberta, and Pacific/Vancouver Chapters.

An ASIS International member since 2008, he has been an active volunteer with ASIS Chapter 162 Calgary/Southern Alberta Chapter since 2011, serving on the Board in numerous capacities including multiple Chapter Chair terms, Vice Chair, and Secretary. As a progressive and creative leader, Jody promotes an environment where the security mindset assists to enable business. He brings enthusiasm to safety, security, and service that redefines expectations.

David Sulston

Industry Representative

David has been involved in the industry for over 30 years, and holds a Master’s of Science Degree with Merit in Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester. David is board certified through the American Society of Industrial Security as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Physical Security Professional (PSP).

David is a founding member of the Commercial Real Estate Security Group, and a co-founder of the Canadian Security Lifesaver Association. David is Co-Chair of the BOMA Security and Risk Management Advisory Committee and was recognized as one the 2021 IFSEC Global Top 20 Security Executive Influencers and was awarded as the 2022 Canadian Security Director of the Year.