About Speaker

Lynn de Séve is the founder and president of GSA Schedules, Inc. In addition to her SIA membership, de Séve is a member of the National Contract Management Association and ASIS International. As a member of SIA, she served on SIA’s Board of Directors for four years and on the SIA Executive Committee for two years as secretary. de Séve is the procurement policy chair of SIA's Government Relations Committee, serves on the steering committee for the SIA Women in Security Forum and is a past member of SIA’s Member Engagement and Experience Committee. In 2006, she received the SIA Industry Advocate Award for her leadership related to public policy challenges impacting the electronic physical security industry, and she was presented with the SIA Chair’s Award in 2016 for her efforts in procurement policy and support for the industry and again in 2019 alongside the rest of the SIA Women in Security Forum steering committee. In 2021, she received the George R. Lippert Memorial Award, an honor presented annually to a distinguished individual for long-term, selfless service to the security industry and to SIA. de Séve has presented at many industry events, training seminars and SIA GovSummit conferences and is a frequent contributing writer for security industry publications.

de Séve’s company, GSA Schedules, Inc., provides expertise and support services for General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule Contract submissions, GSA contract maintenance and management with a primary focus on the security industry. de Séve and her company have over 35 years of experience in the submission, negotiation, implementation, marketing, contract administration and management of GSA Multiple Award Schedule contracts and state contracts. Over her many years of working in the government marketplace, de Séve has established strong alliances with manufacturers, system integrators, manufacturer’s representatives and industry organizations, and of equal importance are the partnering relationships she has established while working with GSA and federal government agencies on behalf of her clients. She served for over 10 years as the industry chairperson for the executive council of the GSA Alliance for Quality Business Solutions at the GSA Southwest Acquisition Center (Region 7) in Fort Worth, Texas; in this capacity, she served as a participant, organizer and presenter in GSA Industry Day training events for GSA contractors.