Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> November 26, 2003
MARTIN A. 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. Responsibilities included 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. Mr. Roenigk became Chairman, CEO and
the largest shareholder of CompuDyne, positions he retains to this date.
Mr. Roenigk is also an avid preservationist and conservationist and owns
two restored National Register historic hotels in Eureka Springs,
Arkansas, and conservancy land in Newton County, Arkansas. Profile
give us a picture of what's happening at the present time?
Mr. Roenigk: CompuDyne, on the NASDAQ national marketplace, has
