Jeff Burgess
Jeff Burgess
Chief Executive Officer, BCDVideoJeff Burgess is Chief Executive Officer of BCD International, Inc., the security industry benchmark in providing innovative technological leadership and an extraordinary customer experience. Burgess began his career in 1979 as a shipper for a computer company and worked his way up to vice president of sales in just seven years. His sales career in the IT industry continued at various other companies over the course of 20 years before he founded Burgess Computer Decisions (BCD) in 1999. BCD started as an IT reseller building high-availability servers for Fortune 500 companies. In 2008, Burgess transformed BCD into BCDVideo and transitioned the company to a builder of enterprise-quality video surveillance recording solutions. While BCD International had been a legal name for the company for several years due to foreign business, it was in 2019 that the company brought it to the forefront in order to better serve its global customers, channel partners, and numerous OEM affiliates. The company is comprised of the three divisions: BCDVideo, Video Storage Solutions (VSS), and BCDOEM. Over the last decade, BCD International, Inc. has provided innovative solutions and exceptional customer service to security integrators, thus becoming the most trusted source for guaranteed IP video solutions. Today, BCD International’s global footprint includes more than 100,000 installations in 75 countries and countless verticals. Odds are that you passed a facility being recorded by a BCD solution in your travels today.
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The video storage boom shows no signs of slowing down. The talk is not typically how much storage; but where and how to store. Locally-housed (on-premises) storage continues to be...
How did the overall economy impact the security marketplace in 2015? In as much as security is more and more becoming a necessity, it would be difficult to gauge whether the economy had any direct eff...
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BCD Founder and Chief Executive Officer - Jeff Burgess has officially announced his retirement. Burgess, who turned 66 on July 25, 2023, began his computer career back in 1979 after landing a warehou...
BCD, the global video data infrastructure provider, has developed a new version of its custom Harmonize iDRAC software integration that enables the health monitoring with similar functionality of De...
BCD, the security industry pioneer in video data infrastructure solutions, and Canon India Pvt Ltd, the sales and marketing subsidiary of Canon Inc., have announced a new strategic distribution partne...
BCDVideo, the global video data infrastructure solutions company, announced the appointment of Fredy Issa as Managing Director of the Middle East, Russia, Africa, and Turkey (MERAT) region. With 15 ye...
BCDVideo, the pioneer in video data infrastructure, announces that it has partnered with Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company for video surveillance storage in the cloud. In an industry moving rapidl...
BCD International, the global video data infrastructure front-runner, announced the opening of the BCD International Inc. Netherlands Build Centre, located in the southern Netherlands. Building on the...
Messe Frankfurt’s ASMAG Security & IoT published its 2020 Security 50 list, naming BCD International as one of the 50 “most influential security companies in the world.” Of the 5...
BCD International has announced the hiring of Jonathan Benedick, a military veteran with an active top secret/SCI security clearance and eight years of proven experience in the United States Air Force...
BCDVideo, a BCD International company, announces that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company®, has named BCDVideo to its 2020 Fast Growth 150 list. Each year, CRN® recognises the fastest-gro...
BCD International, the security industry benchmark in providing innovative technological leadership and extraordinary service, announces that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named BCDVid...
The State of Illinois has enacted a ‘stay at home’ order effective as of Saturday, March 21, at 5pm to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. This means all residents are mandated to...
BCD International announces the launch of a new online tool that allows customers to track the status of their order in real-time. The online tool, OTFD Live is easy-to-use and does not require custom...
BCDVideo announced the landing of the company’s 100,000th video surveillance recording appliance. The pioneer in video data infrastructure and appliances for the physical security industry is ce...
BCDVideo, the provider of purpose-built IP video surveillance solutions, is marking its 20th year in business at the Global Security Exchange (GSX) in Chicago. Since its founding in 1999, BCDVideo has...
Inc. magazine has revealed that BCDVideo, the security industry pioneer in purpose-built video surveillance recording appliances, is No.3688 on its 37th Annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking...
BCDVideo, a global provider of IP video surveillance solutions, announces the addition of Nick Parisi to its executive team. Parisi, who will serve as a chief financial officer, has held a variety of...
BCDVideo, the security industry provider of innovative technological leadership and extraordinary service, announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named BCDVideo to its 2019 Solut...
BCDVideo was recently named as one of the “Best Places to Work in Illinois” in 2019. The awards program began in 2006 and is promoted by The Daily Herald Business Ledger in partnership wit...
BCDVideo, the provider of IP video surveillance infrastructure and appliances for the physical security industry, announced the hiring of Matt Strautman, who will serve as channel manager leading busi...
BCDVideo, the provider of enterprise-quality, purpose-built IP video storage solutions, and Scale Computing, a pioneer in edge computing and hyperconverged solutions, announced the certification of BC...
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