The Platform Behind the Podium: How Pono Security built an operation that could win Olympic contracts

How Pono Security built an operation that could win Olympic contracts.

From a Hawaiian Island to the Olympic Stage

How Pono Security scaled from Maui to 8 states and Olympic-level contracts, and what it took to build an operation that could grow that fast.

Pono Security started with bar and restaurant security on Maui. Today it runs an armed division across 8 states and has been trusted with security for the Olympic Trials and World Games, competing against firms many times its size.

Join the Pono Security team for a real look at what changed as they scaled: how they connected billing to labor hours, brought multiple states under one system, and built the kind of reporting that wins bids against bigger competitors.

If you’re running guard operations today and thinking about what growth actually requires, this is the session for you.

What you’ll take away:

  • How billing tied to labor hours protects margin as you add sites and states
  • What multi-region operations require from a platform, and from a team
  • How clean labor data becomes a deciding factor in competitive bids
  • What changes (and what doesn’t) as a security firm scales from one market to many

Your Hosts

Eric Waddell

Eric Waddell

COO
at Pono Security

KP Singh

KP Singh

Director of Sales
at Pono Security

Nathan Shanks

Nathan Shanks

VP of Product Management
at Trackforce

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