Owned by the Canon Group and built on Google Cloud, we are a passionate team of security and cloud experts on a mission to make surveillance systems easier and more flexible for a safer world. We are forward thinking, fast moving, and obsessed with solving your organization’s problems in the simplest way possible.
Arcules is the intuitive, cloud-based platform that unifies and makes sense of the data from your surveillance system for security and beyond. We are device-agnostic with a simple plug-and-play experience that sets up in minutes, saving both time and money while providing the flexibility to adapt as your business grows. Arcules is constantly updated with improvements and security patches as part of our affordable subscription model. Security is an important investment, but you shouldn’t have to buy into a whole new system of hardware and hire a specialist just to use it.
We are a diverse, passionate group of people that share a desire to create the world’s most user-friendly, affordable, flexible security and insights tool. Our teammates are known as “superheroes” because we embody that comic-book overachiever mentality backed by a personal duty to make the world a safer place for everyone. As part of the Canon Group, we are bound by the “San-Ji” Spirit of self-motivation, self-management, and self-awareness. Integrity and openness are reflected in our team, as well as our product, because those values carry over into everything we do.
Our History
Incubation unit formed within Milestone Systems
Canon purchases Milestone Systems
Arcus spins off from Milestone Systems
Arcus becomes Arcules, a Canon company
Incubation unit formed within Milestone Systems
Canon purchases Milestone Systems
Arcus spins off from Milestone Systems
Arcus becomes Arcules, a Canon company
Today & Beyond
So where are we now? Arcules is rapidly growing and baking even more security, simplicity, and flexibility goodness into our product than ever before. We are partnering with some of the industry’s best known integrators, while also approaching more customers directly about how we can support their organizations using the Arcules solution. We see our cloud platform as being not just the future of security video, but really an all-inclusive analytics tool that offers you meaningful operational insights using the data from your cameras, sensors, door controllers, and various business devices.
The best part? We do it all with one little appliance and manage it securely for you remotely.
One Price. Any device. Anywhere. Anytime.
Our Leadership Team
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Vice President of Product
Cloud and Security Architect
Director of Marketing
Head of Site Reliability Engineering
Director of Human Resources
Senior Principal Engineer
VP of Customer Experience
Director of Sales, APAC
Our success is not possible without the work of our superheroes (employees) and the value they bring to the team.
Learn more about the people behind the technology below!
Our success is not possible without the work of our superheroes and the value they bring as part of the team.
Learn more about the people behind the technology.
Kana Horie
Software Engineer
What is your favorite book?
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
What is one word you would use to describe your team?
AMAZING!
If you had a superpower, what would it be?
Flying! Because the older I get, the more scared I’m becoming of flying on a plane lol
Myke Thompson
Inside Channel
Business Manager
What is your favorite book?
The Bible
What is one word you would use to describe your team?
Agile
What made you decide to come work at Arcules?
The technology and the direction in which it’s going. Cloud is now and Arcules is how.
Andy Ong
Software Engineer
What do you like to do in your free time?
Cooking, basketball, dancing, video games, practice guitar, and snowboarding whenever possible.
What is one word you would use to describe your team?
Inspiring
What do you like best about working at Arcules?
They have talented and passionate people. It’s difficult to know everyone, but it’s amazing to hear what they love to do in their free time.
Molly McCaughin
Regional Sales Manager
What’s one thing that your coworkers would be surprised to know about you?
I’m a classically trained vocalist and love singing with my local choir.
What is one word you would use to describe your team?
Entrepreneurial
What has been your most exciting experience at Arcules?
Solving REAL problems with a solution that “just makes sense!
Guna Tamilchezhian
Software Engineer
What do you like to do in your free time?
Practicing yoga, freehand drawing, practicing cricket, etc.
What is one word you would use to describe your team?
Nurturing
What do you like best about working at Arcules?
A flat structure, cutting edge tech stack, friendly co-workers, etc are the few things that I like the most working at Arcules.
Chief Executive Officer
As Arcules CEO, Andreas Pettersson is leading the Arcules team in reinventing traditional video monitoring for modern enterprises. Since the company’s formation in 2017, Arcules has introduced an award-winning integrated video surveillance service that brings together video data, access control and analytics into one unified platform. In 2019, the Arcules Integrated Video Cloud Service received the SIA New Product Showcase award for cloud solutions. Prior to becoming CEO, Andreas was Chief Technology Officer.
Andreas is an executive leader with more than 10 years of international business development, engineering and product management leadership experience. Andreas joined Milestone Systems in 2010 and held Product Manager and VP of Professional Products positions before joining Incubation & Ventures at the end of 2012. In 2014, he relocated to Silicon Valley. As U.S. Director for Product Management & Marketing, he created teams within the fields of hardware and software engineering, user experience, and business development.
Education:
MS in Computer Science and Engineering | MBA, Industrial Management and Economics, Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden | Executive management programs at Stanford, CA
Chief Financial Officer
As CFO, Steve is charged with leading the financial, legal and risk direction of the company, ensuring the strategic infrastructure, system, and processes are in place to facilitate growth as well as manage the compliance and reporting requirements of the organization.
Steve has over 20 years of experience leading small, to mid-sized companies through their growth cycle from early revenue through profitability and beyond. His experience in technology SaaS companies includes both private and public companies coupled with numerous ownership structures. Helping business leaders address operational challenges through strategic process, financial planning & analysis, and risk mitigation is a passion. Steve has completed multiple buy and sell-side M&A transactions throughout his tenure at numerous companies. Additionally, Steve holds a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation.
Education:
BS in Business Administration from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona with an emphasis in Finance, Real Estate, & Law.
Chief Revenue Officer
Nigel Waterton leads the sales and marketing efforts for Arcules as Chief Revenue Officer. calling on his 22 years of experience building and managing large, high-growth technology organizations.
Waterton joined Arcules from Aronson Security Group, where he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development and led a cross-disciplinary team within the company as well as with ASG’s strategic partners to identify the key areas of optimization and innovation needed to deliver value to clients. Over the course of his career, he has held a variety of senior-level sales and leadership roles with well-known brands, including Protection One and RFI Security. Waterton is recognized as an industry leader, has been quoted in numerous print and online publications and has sat on multiple industry councils and advisory boards.
Chief Technology Officer
As CTO, Jeff Kunzelman drives the end-to-end product vision and technology development for establishing Arcules as the premier cloud IoT service for enterprise companies.
Jeff is a technology and product executive with over 25 years of experience building companies, teams, and technologies. Jeff has been the architect for Phoenix BIOS, an early development leader at Yahoo!, and CTO at both consumer and enterprise SaaS start-ups. He has had two exits as an entrepreneur.
He is passionate about growing and equipping developers, and creating cohesive cross-functional teams to drive ownership and maximize velocity. When he’s not leading, he’s coding, and when he’s not coding, he’s 3D printing, mountain biking, or trying out a Kickstarter product.
Education:
BS in Computer Science, University of California Riverside
M&S (Muscles & Scars), from many startups
Mike Goos is Vice President of Product at Arcules where he is responsible for product management and user experience. Before joining Arcules, Mike was Vice President of Product and Design at AllyO which was acquired by HireVue in 2020. In this role, he owned the SaaS platform product roadmap and managed and mentored a team of product managers and designers who obsessed over customer needs and prospect problems. Previously, he held Senior Director of Product Management roles at HealthTap and Shutterfly, and was Director of Product Management at Line 2 where he led successful releases of telemedicine, e-commerce and cloud telephony applications, respectively.
When Mike is not working, he is enjoying the hiking trails of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Education:
BA in Economics from Vassar College, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Cloud and Security Architect
Ben Rowe is the Cloud and Security Architect at Arcules. In this role, he leads the development of Video Cloud IoT technologies for enterprise customers.
With over a decade of experience in engineering, Ben specializes in bringing secure, stable and scalable systems to market. His vast knowledge and skills include researching, designing and implementing systems in a variety of verticals from Entertainment to Agriculture.
Director of Marketing
As Director of Marketing, Lisa Harris leads the Arcules global marketing team, focusing on extending and growing the marketing function to meet the demands of the business– now and in the future. She designs and implements robust marketing efforts and strategies across the Arcules organization, including product marketing, demand generation, brand positioning and design, events, and content marketing.
As a marketing executive for more than 20 years, Lisa brings a wealth of leadership and marketing experience to Arcules. She has spent the past four years at Envysion, most recently as the Senior Director of Marketing. During her tenure, she and her team were responsible for the success of the company’s video intelligence business, driving demand generation, and the market positioning of the company’s technologies and services. Lisa is passionate about helping organizations grow by giving them a powerful voice in the markets they serve and helping them build the teams to do it.
Head of Site Reliability Engineering
As Head of SRE, Sakura Mizuno leads Arcules’ SRE team with laser-focused vision to enable velocity and scalability in Arcules’ products and service delivery chain while maintaining reliability and end-to-end security.
Sakura is an accomplished technology leader with years of experience in all facets of cloud native engineering and scalable systems, as well as being well-versed in cloud solutions from the Google Cloud Platform, AWS and Azure. Prior to Arcules, Sakura has spent over fifteen years with The Capital Group Companies, where she led architecture and platform engineering teams in the adoption of a hybrid multi-cloud strategy and DevSecOps culture.
She is passionate about building high-performance teams to manage, automate, and streamline complex engineering designs. When she is not leading, tinkering with IOT automation projects, she is in the kitchen, designing and experimenting with new recipes for family and friends.
Director of Human Resources
Stephanie got her start at Arcules as an HR consultant during the company’s first month. The company’s commitment to building a strong workplace culture that creates an environment where employees can take risks and innovate is what kept her coming back and eventually ending up as the Director of Human Resources. Stephanie has over 15 years of HR experience, including previous work in grocery, small business consulting, manufacturing and distribution. During her HR career, she has overseen hiring and on-boarding for new grocery stores, helped to open a new distribution center for a vitamin company and ran her own consulting business. Her HR writing has appeared on several sites, including Workology, The HR Gazette, HR Writer and TalentCulture.
Stephanie also has a non-profit background and founded an all-volunteer organization to advocate for fair chance hiring policies and to help the formerly incarcerated get back to work. She maintains a strong commitment to community organizing and has served on the Orange County Re-Entry Partnership advisory committee and volunteered with other local organizations. When she is not working at Arcules or in her community, she enjoys reading, baking, hiking and road tripping.
Education:
BA in English, California Lutheran University
MA in Women’s Studies, San Diego State University
Senior Principal Engineer
As a principal engineer and architect, Morten Sommer leads development of cloud based video and IoT solutions. He is passionate about creating innovative integrated solutions for enterprise customers.
Morten was one of the original developers of the Milestone XProtect Corporate VMS and has more than 15 years of experience in the security industry. He joined Milestone Systems in Denmark in 2002 where he has held various engineering and management positions. In 2007 he joined a startup and headed up development of a cloud based service for sharing online publications. After returning to Milestone Systems in 2009 he has led several technology development and research initiatives and has been running technology adoption programs for partner engagement. In 2018 he relocated to Orange County, CA to join the Arcules team. When he is not innovating he enjoys sunny California with his family on hikes, mountain bike rides and the occasional round of golf.
Education:
MS in Engineering, Technical University of Denmark
PhD in Applied Mathematics, Technical University of Denmark
Vice President of Customer Experience
Edward Hobart leads Arcules’ efforts to deliver an unmatched end-to-end customer experience and focuses on enhancing the company’s position as customers’ first choice for a unified cloud security platform. Hobart is a data-driven customer experience management executive with more than 20 years of experience focusing on transforming global organizations through superior customer-centric processes, designs and cultures.
Previously, he was Vice President of Customer Experience B2B Survey Strategy and Implementation at Wells Fargo. Hobart led the Voice of the Customer survey team responsible for developing and executing surveys across the global $25-billion commercial and corporate investment banking businesses.
Prior to his role with Wells Fargo, he was responsible for the customer experience at medical device and technology provider, Breg, and pharmaceutical manufacturer, Zoetis.
Director of Sales, APAC
As Arcules Director of Sales, APAC, Erik Friis Mondorf leads sales and distribution of the company’s products across the region. In this role, Mondorf is responsible for building the company’s market presence, strengthening strategic partnerships, and growing the customer base across the APAC region.
Mondorf has a background in sales and executive management with some of the world’s most influential companies. He most recently served as President and Representative Director at Milestone Systems K.K. in Tokyo where he spearheaded Milestone’s business in Japan from greenfield to the leading video management business in the region. Earlier in his career, he served as Minister Counsellor with the Trade Council of Denmark, Royal Danish Embassy, Tokyo, to advise on technology best practices and deployment. He also served in progressively senior sales roles at Accenture, The East Asiatic Company, and IBM.
