Kumar Sokka

Chief Executive Officer

acre security

Jun 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

As CEO of acre, I’m proud to lead a world-class team focused on redefining how organizations protect what matters most and move security forward. Acre is a global leader in access control and security management solutions, serving enterprise, education, government, and critical infrastructure clients across 25+ countries. We're driving innovation through cutting-edge platforms, strategic acquisitions, and a relentless focus on customer success. Under private equity ownership, we’re scaling rapidly—modernizing our product portfolio, deepening integrations, and building a culture of high performance and accountability.

Board Member

Comnet

Aug 2024 - Current (2 years)

Head of Intrusion and Comnet

acre security

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025 (11 months)

Group Chief Executive Officer

acre security

Aug 2024 - Jun 2025 (11 months)

As CEO of acre, I’m proud to lead a world-class team focused on redefining how organizations protect what matters most and move security forward. Acre is a global leader in access control and security management solutions, serving enterprise, education, government, and critical infrastructure clients across 25+ countries. We're driving innovation through cutting-edge platforms, strategic acquisitions, and a relentless focus on customer success. Under private equity ownership, we’re scaling rapidly—modernizing our product portfolio, deepening integrations, and building a culture of high performance and accountability.

Global President and General Manager

LenelS

Dec 2022 - Jun 2024 (1 year 7 months)

Kumar will lead the global LenelS2 business where he will be responsible for crafting the strategic growth plan and setting the vision and priorities of LenelS2 with a focus on innovation and digital advancement. He will be accountable for delivering on the overall P&L and operational performance of the business. In this role Kumar will lead sales, marketing, global product management and engineering, operations, services and will also be responsible for driving our continued focus on customer-centricity, aftermarket services, and SaaS. Led successful exit of Lenels2 to Honeywell

Global GM/Head of Digital BU

Rockwell Automation

Oct 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 3 months)

Responsible for full Global P&L - operations, marketing, finance, people ops, commercial, delivery and managed service. • Team consists of 550+ technical and functional consultants delivering large scale digital transformation projects (Kalypso + AVATA) • Scaling digital BU globally through organic and inorganic opportunities , 30%+ growth quarterly

Business Director, OEM, Asia Pacific

Rockwell Automation

Oct 2017 - Oct 2020 (3 years 1 month)

- Responsible for +250 employees which include sales, business development and technical resources - Accountable for overall strategy for accelerated growth in AP while transitioning to Information and software sales and solutions - Enabling and coaching customers to bring value and return on investment with IoT solutions - Managing teams in all regions of Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia) - driving change and innovation with machine builders to realize the potential of digital - leading a global team to develop go to market strategies to accelerate IoT adoption

Global Business Manager (General Managment)

Rockwell Automation

Nov 2014 - Nov 2017 (3 years 1 month)

• Responsible for business P&L, greater than $200 million in world-wide sales. Accountable for manufacturing, quality, sales, product costs, margins, expenses and the overall assets employed by the business. • Direct responsibility for product portfolio and development; including competitive analysis, long-term product line planning and strategy, pricing, forecasting, marketing and product life cycle management. • Overall responsibility for management and implementation of major new product programs.

Regional Manager (Strategy and business development

Rockwell Automation

Jun 2011 - Nov 2014 (3 years 6 months)

• Manage a team of sales and marketing managers, sales operations and customer facing engineers who have grown the territory year of year at a 25% CAGR. • Influence and collaborate with Channel principals to build short and long term strategies for sustainable growth. 3 years sequential double digit growth (FY11 – FY14)

Channel Sales Manager

Rockwell Automation

Jan 2007 - Aug 2011 (4 years 8 months)

• Built business plan for team to meet 20% growth (60 Million dollars) – Aligned team with right accounts on real opportunities – team led dashboard • Managed channel partner and channel sales engineers to meet sales objectives grew 128% YoY by driving disciplined selling process, re-alignment, mgmt execution plan and review process (FY10)

Sales Engineer (leadership development program)

Siemens

Jan 2004 - Oct 2007 (3 years 10 months)

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