Life Safety Alliance Announces Top 40 Global Thought Leaders List

MEDFORD, N.J. — The Life Safety Alliance (LSA) today announced its second annual list of the Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security and Life Safety, including two SSI editorial advisory board members: Elite Interactive Solutions marketing director Scott Goldfine and MacGuard Security Advisors president Kirk MacDowell.

This honor “represents an effort to bring enhanced objectivity, transparency and rigor to the process of identifying influencers and thought leaders in the field,” according to the alliance announcement. While several top 40 thought leaders from 2024 make a repeat appearance, more than half of this year’s honorees are new.

The 2025 LSA global thought leaders “represent the entire industry, including life safety, physical security, cybersecurity, risk management, loss prevention and intelligence,” according to the alliance announcement. Honorees comprise practitioners, service and technology providers, researchers, academics and other professionals from more than a dozen countries, the announcement says.

Inside the 2025 Life Safety Alliance Global Thought Leaders

This year, Andrew Thorburn, enterprise security & risk manager at Wesco Anixter, formerly Atlas Gentech NZ Limited, from New Zealand, led the effort to identify candidates. He also chaired the committee that revised some of the scoring and categories used in 2024 “to better reflect both the breadth and nuances of thought leadership,” according to the LSA announcement.

Candidate scores were determined using a proprietary algorithm that considered various factors, including conference presentations, webinar and podcast appearances, LinkedIn reach, academic courses taught and volunteer leadership positions held, among others, from May 1, 2024, to April 30, 2025.

A formula weighted these factors to generate a final score.

After reviewing the credentials of hundreds of professionals in the life safety and security fields, LSA contacted more than 200 candidates it identified as “some of the most active and influential thought leaders in the industry,” according to the alliance announcement.

Candidates were given the opportunity to provide evidence of the criteria requested “to better showcase their activities,” the announcement says.

“After an inaugural year that exceeded our expectations for both interest in the recognition and quality of the Top 40 recipients, we are delighted to see both repeat honorees from 2024 as well as a large group of fresh faces,” says Becky Lane, acting CEO of the Life Safety Alliance.

“As awareness of and interest in this recognition has grown, 2025 was even more competitive than 2024,” she says, “especially since Andrew Thorburn led an effort to draw in as many candidates as possible from everywhere around the world.”

“I’m very proud to lead the LSA Top 40 recognition program because it uniquely reflects the direct and measurable impact of practitioners and academics on thought leadership in security risk management and life safety,” says Thorburn in the alliance announcement.

“We cast a wide net to identify individuals who have demonstrated impact, innovation, and ethics, while also considering factors such as geography, market size, and market maturity,” he says.

Those who made the list will receive an LSA challenge coin commemorating their achievement as well as a digital certificate.

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