About

Helping each other immediately, can make all the difference in an emergency starting with very early detection. Until an emergency occurs, we rarely think about our current safety systems. It’s a false hope. Medical emergencies happen quickly, people feel vulnerable to violence, and responders often state, “we can’t do it alone”.

When creating RescueGIS, we listened carefully to many world leading experts and leveraged the most advanced technologies to design our systems. Our partners such as AWS enabling generative AI and global scale, Esri with indoor and outdoor maps, and others are instrumental in our ultimate delivery of the advanced safety capabilities to customers. Ease of enrollment, system use, and support are hallmarks of our values stemming from the high bar of our founders’ corporate aviation high-tech and community policing backgrounds.

Our History: Emergency conditions and violence are common and like many others, I have been personally affected. The tipping point was the Parkland Florida incident, when my daughter as a junior in High School came home and asked, “What do I do if something like this happens in my school.” I was shocked, knowing there is little on campus that can help, and in 2018 we chose to act.

Our focus ever since has been on very early rescues, simplistic use, privacy, mobility, and non-intrusive solutions. The first sales of our patented Smart Shield occurred late in 2019 covering the entry areas and protecting 13 schools. In February 2020 every school and business campus closed for Covid 19.

We then shifted full time to develop RescueGIS. As our company and system capabilities grew, we realized the enormous needs for immediate rescues and live on-scene responder intelligence worldwide. This led us to build for scale.

Today, technologies of RescueGIS with 38 patented claims makes innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) and geographical information system (GIS) technologies. Together with our industry partners we apply our capabilities to safety and security, delivering powerful new features for individuals, sites, and communities.

More broadly, our private cloud-based systems are positioned between; the rapidly advancing IoT device variations and mobile internet connectivity everywhere. This makes our technologies applicable to a very wide market, delivering valuable capabilities to wearables devices, cameras, and drones, as well as satellite to devices, and indoor positioning solutions.

We are a team of entrepreneurs and distribution partners with vast technology, security, and community policing experience. At our core, we care greatly about the well-being of people, and particularly for children.

Chad Ahrens, ArmorGIS Founder and CEO

Chad Ahrens: CEO
Entrepreneur with corporate aviation and successful turnaround experience. Founder and CEO of ArmorGIS. B.S. in Business Admin and B.S. in Computer Science, with technical expertise in IoT, GIS and advanced materials.

Michael Rhind: CFO
Experience healthcare startup executive with successful sale to PE firm. VP Finance and Controller, Cancer Centers. CPA, 35 Years experience, Initially at Price Waterhouse, BA Economics and Business

Ward Clapham: Alternative Policing Advisor
Law enforcement experience including alternative neighborhood policing success. Author and police leadership speaker. Superintendent in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), and Chief of Police for Metro Vancouver Transit.

Tim Hageman: Firsthand Policing Advisor
Retired police captain with 33 years of law enforcement experience in Field Operations and Administration & Investigations. Host of the Behind The Line podcast, real life policing and military accounts. B.S and M.S. Criminal Justice Administration.

Kirk Fabrizio: SVP Business Development
Technology sector entrepreneur and co-founded of 310 Nutrition with extensive product marketing, channel development experience. B.S. in International Business Management

Rob Paulsen: SVP Distribution
Highly experienced distribution selling success with large technology OEMs and value-added resellers VARs. Performing management, sales, development, and channel management. Hospital board member supporting his rural community. BS, M.Ed, MBA.

Gary Baughman:
Sales ManagerSales and sales network development experience, successfully training and running national and regional sales teams. Former senior sales network manager at Lafayette Interior Fashions manufacturing.