BUSINESS HAPPENINGS
CertaSite acquires Dayton’s Copp Systems
CertaSite, a commercial fire protection and life safety company, recently announced it has acquired Copp Systems, a security and fire protection business in Dayton. The acquisition is CertaSite’s sixth in Ohio and 24th overall.
CertaSite prides itself on high levels of customer service, responsiveness, building safety and code compliance to customers across the Midwest. The company goes beyond compliance, focusing on partnerships and professionalism while providing customers a simplified and dependable solution to managing all the fire protection and life safety systems in commercial buildings.
A well-established secu- rity and fire protection business with more than 100 years rooted in Day- ton, Copp has extensive experience in providing full-service security solu- tions along with fire pro- tection services for fire alarms and monitoring to their loyal customers.
With the close of the acquisition, all Copp employees are joining the CertaSite family. Copp’s owner Bill DeFries will remain with the company in a new role to expand the access control and video surveillance business to new markets across Certa- Site. This product expan- sion will bring a new area of technology to Certa- Site’s customers.
Visit www.certasitepro. com for more information.
Kumar and Luttig named Kettering Foundation senior fellows
María Teresa Kumar and J. Michael Luttig have accepted appoint- ments as senior fellows, the Charles F. Kettering Foun- dation announced recently. They join nine senior fellows from diverse backgrounds and political views appointed since Novemb e r t o strengthen the Foundation’s focus on encouraging civic participation and fighting the rise of authoritarianism and threats to democracy in the U.S. and around the globe. The senior fellows are drawn from both major parties, with distinguished records in government, higher education, civil society, business a n d journalism.
Kumar is co-founder and president of Voto Latino, a 501(c)(4) advocacy organization, and its sister nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization, Voto Latino Foundation. Together, the organizations have registered 1.4 million voters in key battleground states since 2004. Kumar is an Emmy-nominated analyst for MSNBC. She has been named among Bloomberg’s 100 Influential Latinos, Washingtonian magazine’s 100 Top Political Influencers, and Elle’s 10 influential women in Washington.
Luttig served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Before being appointed to the federal bench by President George H. W. Bush, he served as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel and counselor to the attorney general of the United States at the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1991. Luttig is a board member of the nonprofit Society for the Rule of Law,
unded by a group of conservative pro-democracy lawyers and jurists who have served at the highest levels of government in previous Republican administrations.