Professional Profile: Jamie Wood - 2013

Family: Wife (Lynn) and four children ages 11, 8, 7 and 1.5

First job unrelated to your current field: Real Estate

First job in current field: Account Manager at Celadon Security

What your firm does now and its plans for the future? With a focus on customer service, HPS is the fastest growing contract security firm in the northeast and provides service to top real estate, hospitality, industrial and educational organizations.

Hobbies: Spending time with my wife and kids at our home in Gloucester - preferably on the beach.

Favorite novel: The overnight security log at any HPS site

Favorite film: “Slap shot”

Keys to success: Be available to your clients at all times and listen to what they tell you. Work while others sleep. Successful people become successful by doing things that other people don’t want to do, when they don’t want to do them.

Person(s) you most admire (outside of family): Members of our staff who work a full time job during the week; then work for HPS on the weekends to put their children through college.

If you had to choose a different profession, what would it be? Professional hockey