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Kings Secure Technologies Announces Leadership Transition

August 12, 2025

Kings Secure Technologies (KST) is pleased to announce a significant leadership transition within the organisation. Grant Kennedy, the founder of KST group company, Quidvis has now left the business to reside with his family overseas. We would like to thank Grant for his support and wish him well for the future.

Demonstrating strong leadership and continuity, Paul Ottley, who has served as Quidvis UK Managing Director since early 2024, will now assume responsibility for all aspects of the Quidvis business, including spearheading software development and guiding the team through this important transition. Paul brings with him a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the security and risk management industry, and we are confident that his leadership will propel the business forward into an exciting new chapter.

Bob Forsyth, CEO of Kings Secure Technologies, commented, “We wish Grant all the very best as he embarks on this new chapter. The business is in very good hands under Paul’s leadership, and we are very excited by the future growth and opportunities the Quidvis services can offer our clients.”

Kings Secure Technologies remains committed to delivering exceptional service and innovative solutions to our clients. We thank our partners, clients and team members for their ongoing support during this period of transition.

 

 

About the Kings Secure Technologies group of companies

Kings Secure Technologies (KST) is a leading group of companies providing specialist solutions within the Risk, Security and Fire and Life Safety systems sector and operating in a wide range of industries. With our head office based firmly in West Yorkshire and satellite offices in Scotland, the Midlands, East Anglia, Reading, London, the South East and South West, we focus on delivering cutting-edge innovative solutions ensuring a full end-to-end risk management approach for our clients.

Our fully-protected and highly-accredited Technology Monitoring Centre (K-SOC), alongside our Compliance & Risk Management solution from Quidvis provide our clients with round-the-clock monitoring and intelligence-led analysis and reporting, actively preventing criminal activity on our clients’ sites.  For more information go to: www.kingsltd.co.uk

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