About Speaker

Lynn de Sève is founder and president of GSA Schedules, Inc., which provides expertise and support services for General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule contract submissions, maintenance and management with a primary focus on IT, industrial products, security and emergency preparedness, fire and building controls industries.

de Sève and her company have over 46 years of experience in the submission, negotiation, implementation, marketing and management of GSA Multiple Award Schedule Contracts. She served on the SIA Board of Directors for four years and on the Executive Board for two years and is the procurement policy chair for SIA's Government Relations Committee.

de Sève was awarded the SIA Statesman Award (2006), Chair's Award (2015 and 2019) and the George R. Lippert Memorial Award (2021) — SIA's highest honor for lifetime achievement—and was honored by Security Sales and Integration Magazine for the Security Hall of Fame (2022) and named a SIA Women in Security Forum Power 100 honoree in 2022 and 2023.