Josh Garner is the CEO of Becklar, LLC, the parent company of AvantGuard and Freeus. He launched his career as the founder of AvantGuard where he built the company from a small mom-and-pop central station to a national leader in the wholesale monitoring space. AvantGuard has pioneered innovative solutions in central station redundancy with real-time disaster recovery as well as innovative monitoring solutions in IoT, PERS, traditional, and hybrid monitoring.  A 3rd generation alarm guy, Garner grew up in the alarm industry working for his family’s legacy business, Mountain Alarm. He founded AvantGuard under the Mountain Alarm umbrella in 2002, later buying it as a stand-alone entity in 2008. In 2015, he purchased Freeus, which at the time was a small manufacturer of  mobile PERS units. Today, Freeus has grown to be the leading manufacturer of mPERS devices in the United States, with over 400K connected devices.