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Mid-Market Distributor

Cybersecurity Services for WAVE Electronics

WAVE Electronics is an independent distributor of surveillance, security, networking, audio video and automation products serving custom integrators and dealers from 16 locations across the United States.

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TypeMid-Market Distributor
HQHouston, Texas
Focusip surveillance, networking hardware, smart home automation, audio video, security integration, dealer training and technical support
SizeMid-Market
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CWS is not affiliated with WAVE Electronics. This page describes cybersecurity delivery services CWS offers to channel partners.

Company Profile

WAVE Electronics at a glance

Founded
2002
Operates in
16 locations across the United States, headquartered in Houston, Texas
Verticals
custom integration, residential smart home, security dealers, commercial audio video, homebuilders
Acquisitions
KOA Electronics Distribution, Panorama City, California (2024, announced September 10, 2024)
Ownership
Acquired by Kingswood Capital Management in 2018 and merged with AVAD, the distributor Kingswood had acquired in 2016

Compiled from public sources: https://www.wave-electronics.com/about-us, https://www.wave-electronics.com/locations, https://www.wave-electronics.com/wave-u/wave-electronics-acquires-koa-electronics-distribution, https://www.prweb.com/releases/kingswood_capital_completes_acquisition_of_wave_electronics_announces_merger_with_avad/prweb15811748.htm, https://www.cepro.com/news/wave_electronics_acquired_by_kingswood_capital_merges_with_avad/6623/, https://www.commercialintegrator.com/news/wave-electronics-acquires-koa-electronics-distribution/136861/.

Industry Context

The Challenge for Mid-Market Distributors

WAVE Electronics has been assembled at least as much as it has been grown. Started in Houston in 2002, it was bought by Kingswood Capital Management in 2018 and merged with AVAD, the distributor Kingswood had taken on two years earlier, then absorbed KOA Electronics Distribution of Panorama City, California in September 2024. Sixteen locations now sell surveillance, networking, audio video and automation product to custom integrators and security dealers

One counter, two quite different customers. The integrator wiring a house and the dealer dropping a camera system into a corporate campus buy from the same branch and the same catalogue, and only the second gets handed a security questionnaire by the client's IT department. That dealer generally cannot complete it. Neither can the branch, which is built for same day fulfilment and product knowledge rather than network design. So the question keeps travelling until it reaches someone who can produce a segmentation plan and evidence that it was applied, and the account has a habit of travelling with it. A company that has spent the years since 2018 consolidating the custom integration channel is unusually well placed to close that gap before an integrator closes it for them

CWS is the delivery bench WAVE can hire by the engagement. Work is scoped, staffed and completed under the WAVE name, to one standard, at customer sites across the United States and Canada, with French speaking delivery where Quebec or Canadian federal work demands it. Corova holds the scoping, quoting and project tracking, so a branch can put a services number in front of a dealer while the opportunity is still live

Positioned at the Point of Decision

Why This Matters for WAVE Electronics

Two acquisitions in six years bought WAVE reach into the commercial end of the integration channel, which is precisely where the security questions get asked. Reach without an answer just moves the dealer's problem one step upstream. Attaching engineering to the product turns a fulfilment relationship into one the dealer cannot easily replace

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