Life safety and electronic security are not abstractions to us — they are duty. Our leadership team carries that responsibility from the boardroom to the field, building systems that public agencies trust when seconds matter.
★ SBA Person of the Year · 2025
Chief Executive Officer · Founder
"We do not build systems to win contracts — we build them so a dispatcher, an officer, or a teacher has exactly what they need in the worst moment of someone's day. Out of 4.2 million small businesses in California, being named the SBA's Small Business Person of the Year for 2025 is an honor I share with every engineer and operator on this team. The recognition is theirs."
Under Mr. Alkurdi's direction, HQE Systems has grown from a focused life-safety integrator into a trusted partner for federal agencies, municipalities, schools, hospitals, and critical-infrastructure operators nationwide — while never drifting from the veteran-led, mission-first discipline it was founded on.
Leadership at HQE isn't a title — it's a set of commitments our team is measured against, on every project, in every jurisdiction.
Every recommendation starts with the safety outcome, not the invoice. If a smaller system protects people better, that's the one we design — and we'll tell you so.
The same leaders who scope your project answer the phone after go-live. We back our work with named owners and SLA-backed support, not a ticket queue.
We design open, standards-based systems your agency can own, audit, and extend — never locked to a single vendor or a single budget cycle.
Authorized resellers and clients get to certify lead trainers, to onboard staff at their own pace with guided modules, practice environments, and progress tracking you can see at a glance.
A leadership bench that has stood in the command center, written the code, and signed the deployment plan. Here's who steers HQE Systems.
Sets the company's mission-first direction and owns the relationships with our largest federal and state partners. SBA Small Business Person of the Year, 2025.
Owns the rollout playbook that gets agencies live in weeks, not fiscal years — coordinating installation, training, and go-live across every jurisdiction we serve.
Directs the architecture behind FORTRESS and our mass-notification and life-safety platforms — keeping systems open, resilient, and audit-ready by design.
Maps every solution to the frameworks auditors actually use — FedRAMP and CJIS alignment, data sovereignty, and the immutable audit trails public agencies require.
Translates each agency's real-world constraints into a buildable design — scoping life-safety, electronic security, and notification systems that fit how teams actually work.
Owns the relationship after go-live — driving the SLA-backed support, training refreshes, and proactive system health checks that keep partners protected long-term.
