Martin Renkis is the Vice President of OpenBlue Security and Innovation at Johnson Controls. He was the former founder and CEO of Smarvue. Smartvue surpassed YouTube in daily video uploads and provided video services for some of America’s largest ISPs as well as surveillance solutions to thousands of businesses around the world before it was acquired by Johnson Controls. Martin is a prolific inventor with more than 60 patents and an entrepreneurial mentor at Vanderbilt University.
With four locations in Southern and Northern California, Texas and New Jersey, 7th Generation Recycling is an organization dedicated to protecting the environment and supporting local communities. The larger the company has grown, however, the more issues they found with collections at remote locations – mainly with vandalism and theft of donations.