Life safety and electronic security are not abstractions to us — they are duty. Our leadership team carries that responsibility from the boardroom to the field, building systems that public agencies trust when seconds matter.
Chief Executive Officer · Founder
"We do not build systems to win contracts. We build them so a dispatcher, an officer, or a teacher has exactly what they need in the worst moment of someone's day. Out of 4.2 million small businesses in California, being named the SBA's Small Business Person of the Year for 2025 is an honor I share with every engineer and operator on this team. The recognition is theirs."
Under Mr. Alkurdi's direction, HQE Systems has grown from a focused life-safety integrator into a trusted partner for federal agencies, municipalities, schools, hospitals, and critical-infrastructure operators nationwide, without drifting from the veteran-led, mission-first discipline it was founded on.
Leadership at HQE isn't a title. It's a set of commitments our team is measured against, on every project, in every jurisdiction.
Every recommendation starts with the safety outcome, not the invoice. If a smaller system protects people better, that's the one we design, and we'll tell you so.
The same leaders who scope your project answer the phone after go-live. We back our work with named owners and SLA-backed support, not a ticket queue.
We design open, standards-based systems your agency can own, audit, and extend, never locked to a single vendor or a single budget cycle.
Authorized resellers and clients certify their own lead trainers and onboard staff at their own pace, with guided modules, practice environments, and progress you can see at a glance.
A leadership bench that has stood in the command center, written the code, and signed the deployment plan. Here's who steers HQE Systems.
Sets the company's mission-first direction and owns the relationships with our largest federal and state partners. SBA Small Business Person of the Year, 2025.
Runs day-to-day operations across installation, deployment and support: the rollout playbook that gets agencies live in weeks, not fiscal years.
Leads HQE's federal programs from capture through delivery: DoD, DLA and Navy installations, the proposals behind them, and the compliance each award carries.
Runs the back office that keeps the company moving: HR, finance operations, compliance paperwork and vendor management.
Owns every contract after award: scope, schedule, project management and the SLA-backed support that keeps each system current.
Leads HQE's security and compliance function: maps every solution to the frameworks auditors actually use, including FedRAMP and CJIS alignment, data sovereignty, and the immutable audit trails public agencies require.
Directs the architecture behind QRM and our mass-notification and life-safety software, keeping systems open, resilient, and audit-ready by design.
Shapes how HQE shows up: brand, web, campaigns and the stories behind every deployment.
Public safety is a promise. When an agency chooses HQE, they're trusting us with the moment their community is most vulnerable. That trust outranks every contract on our books, and our entire leadership team is built around honoring it.
Federal department, municipality, school district, or critical-infrastructure operator: the people who lead HQE Systems are ready to help you protect what matters.
