Kastle Assembles Leadership Team to Reshape the Managed Physical Security Market
Kastle, the managed physical security platform protecting over 1 billion square feet of U.S. commercial real estate, announced the appointment of five senior executives, the most significant leadership expansion in company history.
With new commercial, operational and marketing horsepower, the company is accelerating the development of its platform, scaling its offering across enterprise clients and the $1 trillion commercial real estate sector.
“Business leaders can no longer afford to treat security as a compliance checkbox,” said Haniel Lynn, CEO, Kastle. “Physical security is now a strategic asset, a competitive differentiator that directly impacts return on investment, tenant satisfaction and investor confidence. We’ve built this leadership team to meet that moment.”
Each executive was selected to accelerate Kastle’s three core growth imperatives: platform innovation, managed services expansion and scaled growth across its portfolio.
Matt Burke, Chief Operating Officer: Burke’s tenure at Johnson Controls, where, as SVP, he led a $5.0B P&L with 14,000 employees, positions him to tackle Kastle’s core scaling opportunity: operationalizing excellence across a growing managed security platform. As COO, Burke will own pricing architecture, contract strategy and the systems that ensure every engagement delivers measurable value consistently.
Neil Thomas, Chief Revenue Officer: Thomas brings a rare combination of enterprise software and physical security market expertise from his tenure as a global enterprise corporate vice president at Motorola Solutions. As CRO, he will architect Kastle’s next-generation go-to-market strategy, expanding penetration in Fortune 500 enterprise accounts, opening new verticals and building the infrastructure to support aggressive revenue growth.
Chad Pierce, Chief Information Officer: Pierce’s role is central to Kastle’s value proposition: Enterprise clients increasingly need physical security integrated across HR, IT, facilities and identity systems, not as a standalone function. Pierce knows this mandate intimately from his tenure as CIO at WeWork, where he led the company through major, global enterprise transformations. As Kastle’s CIO, Pierce will own the company’s internal technology strategy across four areas: enterprise systems (including ERP, CRM), data infrastructure, enterprise integrations and information security.
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Lindsay McLain, Chief Marketing Officer: McLain joins with a mandate to position Kastle as the intelligence authority in enterprise security and workplace safety. Her experience leading marketing at Avigilon and Openpath, combined with Kastle’s distinctive capabilities, managed services model and proprietary Barometer dataset, positions her to define an emerging category and shape industry conversation.
Steven Weingarth, Vice President, Go-to-Market: Weingarth, architect of Kastle’s modern marketing engine, will lead the expanded strategy. Weingarth will build and scale the go-to-market technology stack and lead generation platform that will fuel Kastle’s next chapter of growth, much like he did at Motorola Solutions and Openpath before that. From establishing a high-impact digital footprint to building the automation infrastructure that moves prospects seamlessly from marketing into the sales pipeline, Weingarth is engineering the systems that make growth repeatable, measurable and effective.
Kastle’s leadership also includes Jason Slocum, CEO and president of i2G Systems, who was recently named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2026 Award Winner for Michigan and Northwest Ohio.
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