Things You Didn't Know
Guardsmark is the largest employer of former FBI agents in the world.
The New York Times editorially praised Guardsmark for reducing the number of unnecessarily armed security officers, an action that cost the company a significant amount of business at the time.
Guardsmark offers free individual health coverage to 100 percent of its full-time security officers.
As a high school senior in Little Rock, CEO Ira Lipman publicly denounced segregation at Central High School, which became integrated with the matriculation of the “Little Rock Nine.”
Mr. Lipman’s role in the desegregation crisis led to a friendship with NBC news legend John Chancellor. In 1995, he established the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism to honor his hero. 1979 by the Advanced Passenger Train.
