Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 25, 2002
MARTIN ALLEN ROENIGK is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Compudyne Corporation. In 1965 he received his BA degree from
Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and his MBA in Finance
and Accounting at the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business in 1967. Mr. Roenigk earned his CPA while working at
Arthur Andersen & Co. in the late 1960s. After a stint in Vietnam
courtesy of the U.S. Army, he joined the Travelers Corporation in
1970. The first half of his 23-year career at Travelers was
involved with private placement, researching industrial credits
throughout the US, and running the Public Bond and Preferred
Stock departments for Travelers. The second half of his career
was as Vice President ' Corporate Strategy and Research, where he
was responsible for planning, operations research, acquisitions
and divestitures and Director ' Dillon Read & Co. Mr. Roenigk's
career ended with his participation in the late 1993 negotiation
and sale of Travelers to what was then Primerica and is now
Citigroup. In 1995, he sold a company he controlled,
MicroAssembly Systems, to CompuDyne Corporation. As part of this
transaction Mr. Roenigk and his partner, Alan Markowitz, put new
capital into CompuDyne and he assumed the position of Chairman
and CEO. Profile
CompuDyne in the past year?
Mr. Roenigk: We've had a sort of flattish year, which isn't too
bad, I guess, for 2001, with earnings up a
