Irene Lam

IRENE LAM is the vice president of product development for the newly formed integrated offerings within building management system business in Johnson Controls. In this role, she is responsible for developing, leading, and driving the vision, technologies, and solutions strategies for cloud and on-premise platforms. She has spent the past six years as VP of R&D in access control and video solutions in Tyco Security Products. Lam joined Tyco in September 2004 as product manager for Software House.  Over the course of her more than ten years with Tyco, she has held multiple roles within product management and R&D primarily focus on access and video. Prior to joining Tyco, she was the senior product manager at CyOptics, a fiber optics startup headquartered in Waltham, MA.  She has over eleven years of product marketing and management experience in several high tech companies including Texas Instruments, Lasertron, and Corning.  Her success at Tyco and now Johnson Control is attributed by not only hard work and dedication but a vast network of sponsors, advisors, and mentors.  She was recognized by Security System News as one of the top 10 Women in Security for 2015 for her contributions to the security industry. Lam earned a BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. @tycosecuritypro