he Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Jeff Huggins of ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions as the 2025 recipient of the SIA Committee Chair of the Year Award, which recognizes individuals for excellence in leading SIA committees and advancing member objectives. SIA will present Huggins with the award at The Advance, SIA’s annual membership meeting, which will be held April 1 during ISC West.
Huggins is the vice president for government programs and national accounts at ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions. He served in and ultimately retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after 22 years, working in the intelligence/reconnaissance field throughout his career, with more than 15 years of that service stationed at overseas locations or on deployments to the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Caribbean, South America, North Africa and Arctic regions of the globe.
Upon retirement from the Corps, Huggins started his civilian career working in the security industry supplying access control, intrusion and video solutions to the financial/banking industry. He has subsequently spent his time in the security industry in leadership roles throughout his career running installation, service, sales and business development programs.
Huggins has been with ASSA ABLOY since 2014, where he currently leads the government and national accounts programs. He was instrumental in the establishment of the ASSA ABLOY Veterans Network, which has established veterans groups at the company’s various locations across the country and conducts various “give back” activities in support of its veteran employees and local community veterans groups.
Since 2024, Huggins has served as the first-ever chair of SIA’s Veterans in Security community, which focuses on the issues and concerns of veterans and active military members who are in – or are interested in joining – the security industry.
“I would first like to acknowledge all of the hard work that all of the committees throughout SIA do to support the security industry,” says Huggins in the SIA announcement. “Each are volunteers and have very important roles in their own organizations and our collective mission to keep America safe!
