Industry leaders recognized at PestWorld 2026

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) honored several industry leaders during PestWorld 2026 in Grapevine, Texas. The annual event took place Oct. 20-23 at the Gaylord Texan Resort. At the opening ceremony Oct. 20, NPMA CEO Dominique Stumpf, CAE, presented two awards:

• The NPMA Sustainability Task Force was named the 2025-2026 Committee of the Year.

• Curtis Rand, president of Rose Pest Solutions in Northfield, Ill., and chair of the NPMA PestVets Council, received the 2025-2026 Committee Chair of the Year Award.

NPMA presented eight more awards at annual awards ceremony on Oct. 22:

• Janet Hurley, ACE, senior program specialist for Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, received the ACE Professional Award, presented by the Entomological Society of America.

Janet Hurley

• Ryan Olson, COO and third-generation owner of Yankton, S.D.-based Olson’s Pest Technicians, received the Emerging Leaders Award. This award recognizes rising stars who have already made significant contributions to the association or the pest management profession and have shown potential for leadership and continued service. Rentokil Terminix sponsors the award.

Ryan Olson

• Cincinnati, Ohio-based Scherzinger Pest Control received the NPMA Gives Award, which recognizes member companies that have shown leadership through their dedication and contributions to their communities. The company was founded in 1934 by Bernard Scherzinger, and is today run by his great-grandsons Kurt and Eric Scherzinger, who are president and VP of sales and marketing, respectively. Their father, Steve, who still owns the business, is the son of Pest Management Professional Hall of Famer Ed Scherzinger (Class of 2011) — and also served as the 2005-2006 NPMA president. PestPac by WorkWave sponsors the award.

• Tower Pest Control, based in Hialeah, Fla., received the Excellence in Sustainability Award. The award recognizes companies that have made outstanding contributions to environmental stewardship in the pest management industry. Nisus Corp. sponsors the award.

• Pisgah Pest Control, based in Brevard, N.C., received the Culture Catalyst Award, which celebrates companies that have built exceptional workplace cultures through strong core values and employee engagement. Arrow Exterminators sponsors the award.

• BugBros Pest Control, based in Tulsa, Okla., received the inaugural Technology Adopter Award. The new award recognizes pest management companies that have embraced innovative technology to drive business growth. FieldRoutes sponsors the award.

• Marillian Missiti, president of Buono Pest Control in Watertown, Mass., and the 2023-2024 president of NPMA, received the Women of Excellence Award. The award recognizes female PMPs who show outstanding leadership and have made notable contributions to the development and growth of other women in the industry. Target Specialty Products sponsors the award.

Marillian Missiti

• Russ Ives, chairman of Rose Pest Solutions in Madison Heights, Mich., received the Pinnacle Award, NPMA’s most prestigious honor. The award recognizes an individual who has contributed to the success of both the association and the industry over a lifetime or career. Ives is a third-generation PMP who served as the 2015-2016 president of NPMA, following in the footsteps of his father, Bill (1977–1978), and grandfather, Harlem (1954–1955).

Russ Ives

More information on NPMA’s awards is available at NPMApestworld.org/awards.

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Skyhawk: Trapmate

Remote monitoring is changing more than how pest activity is detected. It’s changing how pest management professionals (PMPs) operate their businesses.

Skyhawk Trapmate helps pest management professionals move beyond routine trap checks with a scalable ecosystem of electronic remote monitoring (ERM) solutions designed to improve service efficiency, increase visibility and make better use of valuable technician time.

By providing timely alerts and actionable monitoring data, Trapmate allows technicians to focus their attention where it’s needed most. Less time spent checking empty traps means more time available for higher-value services, including exclusion work, inspections, and proactive pest management.

One platform, more possibilities

Trapmate goes beyond traditional rodent monitoring with a comprehensive ecosystem of reusable, purpose-built sensors supporting rodent, wildlife and insect monitoring applications.

Designed to work with the equipment that PMPs already use, Trapmate’s trap-agnostic technology integrates with a wide variety of existing traps and monitoring devices. There’s no need to overhaul existing equipment or commit to proprietary trapping systems. Simply add remote monitoring capabilities to the tools and programs already in place.

From commercial food facilities and warehouses to residential and wildlife accounts, Trapmate provides flexible monitoring solutions that can grow alongside a pest control business.

Its wireless, battery-powered devices operate through a cellular-connected platform, eliminating the need for customer Wi-Fi or hardwired infrastructure. Designed for real-world pest control environments, sensors can be deployed, repositioned and reused as service needs evolve.

Built for the business of pest control

Trapmate brings together purpose-built hardware, reliable connectivity and intuitive software in one integrated platform.

Real-time activity alerts and reporting help PMPs transition from scheduled routine checks to more informed, exception-based servicing.

The result is greater operational efficiency, more effective technician deployment and improved service documentation that helps demonstrate value to customers.

More than monitoring — it offers better outcomes

Trapmate isn’t simply about knowing when a trap has been triggered. It’s about giving PMPs the information and flexibility to make smarter operational decisions.

By reducing unnecessary site visits, improving visibility between inspections, and supporting more proactive service programs, Trapmate helps pest control businesses protect their customers’ properties while creating opportunities to improve productivity and scale their operations.

About Skyhawk

Based in Derry, N.H., Skyhawk Trapmate is a division of Skyhawk, a U.S.-based company specializing in remote monitoring technology for pest and wildlife professionals. Trapmate’s wireless, battery-powered sensors provide real-time trap activity and data to enhance technician efficiency, reduce service visits and increase client retention.

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Nisus: NCOMPASS

The NCOMPASS Environmental Monitoring System, new from Nisus, leverages cutting-edge sensors and an advanced analytics platform to provide detailed insights about the health of a structure, allowing pest management professionals (PMPs) to track trends that indicate conditions which may be conducive for pests, mold, and fungal activity.

“The NCOMPASS system is a state-of-the-art platform that can benefit every home and commercial structure, offering data-based insights for more effective control strategies and a new level of peace of mind for customers,” Jim Sparks, Nisus’ senior director of product sales, noted in a news release. 

NCOMPASS sensors are placed in areas of a structure that are vulnerable to environmental changes. The sensors can be placed in wall voids, crawlspaces, attics, near plumbing penetrations, and other strategic locations to provide localized monitoring. The sensors monitor for relative humidity, temperature and wood moisture. They also monitor acoustic anomalies that can indicate the presence of insect pests and wildlife. A proprietary app allows service providers to manage customer accounts. 

“A lot happens inside a home that you can’t see during a routine service visit,” Harry Bryan, Nisus’ VP of business development, said in the news release. “The NCOMPASS system uses advanced monitoring technology and artificial intelligence to alert the PMP when conditions fall outside of optimal ranges for the environmental conditions it monitors.”

NCOMPASS Project Leader Kim Kelley-Tunis, Nisus’ VP of regulatory and technical services, agrees. “We go where the science goes,” she said in the news release. “As technology and research evolve, the more opportunities we can identify to better serve our customers and provide them with the most well-informed solution strategies available.” 

The NCOMPASS system “puts a cutting-edge, monitoring tool into the hands of PMPs and allows businesses to provide their customers a long-term service that helps them protect their property in a whole new way,” says Lee Barrett, Nisus’ president and CEO. “After years of development, we are proud to finally introduce this to the industry.” 

About Nisus

Nisus is a 100 percent employee-owned company that manufactures sustainable pest control, wood protection and agricultural solutions that marry uncompromising standards and cutting-edge research at its production facility in Rockford, the heart of East Tennessee. Nisus manufactures all of its products in the United States and is an award-winning Responsible Care Member of the American Chemistry Council. Nisus is also a member of NPMA, PPMA, UPFDA and supports Green Pest Management.

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Polti: Cimex Eradicator

Built for pest management professionals (PMPs), the Cimex Eradicator delivers superheated (356 degree Fahrenheit) dry steam that penetrates cracks, crevices and fabric layers where bed bugs hide — killing adults, nymphs and eggs on contact in fewer than 2 seconds. Its patented nozzle chamber produces 55 percent less moisture than standard steamers, so mattresses and furniture stay dry. Bed bugs can’t build resistance to heat, your customers don’t have to leave the house, and there are no label restrictions or recurring chemical costs.

About Polti

Founded in 1978, with North American headquarters based in Los Angeles, Calif., Polti was built on two pillars that characterize the company and its products to this day: quality and innovation. Over the decades. Polti has combined technological innovation with Italian-made quality and environmental compatibility to offer a clean and simple vision of the future. As a European leader in steam appliances, Polti’s patented products are available in more than 50 countries worldwide.

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PMP Hall of Fame profile: Mark Boyd

The 2026 PMP Hall of Fame dinner and induction ceremony took place Oct. 19 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. This year’s inductees are Mark Boyd, founder of Control Solutions Inc.; Bobby, Raleigh and Dennis Jenkins of ABC Home & Commercial Services; Frank Meek of Rollins; and the late Gene White of Rentokil. Visit the PMP Hall of Fame website.

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Mark Boyd is a second-generation pest management professional (PMP) who went on to found Control Solutions Inc. (CSI), a hybrid manufacturer offering a broad portfolio of post-patent and innovative products across pest control, turf and ornamental, animal health and consumer markets.

Boyd

After more than three decades in the pest management industry, the world-class innovator and visionary retired from CSI on Sept. 1, 2025. Scratch that; he hasn’t fully retired. Currently, Boyd is working as a consultant, helping a few companies structure their businesses for growth.

Starting young

It’s not easy to leave an industry you grew up in.

For Boyd, it all started in 1958, the year he was born. Boyd’s grandfather helped his father, Richard, purchase an existing company called Ford’s Pest Control in Pasadena, Texas. Back then, the small business earned $15,000 in revenue each year.

“It came with one pickup and one technician, RV Davenport,” Boyd recalls. “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did not exist at the time, and RV taught my dad how to mix the chemicals we used.”

Ten years later, not only was his father mixing chemicals for his pest control business, but he was also selling the products to consumers and PMPs out of a small storefront.

“My two brothers and I worked with my dad weekends, summers and afternoons after school, making the products and bottling them,” Boyd says.

As the only son interested in the business and a career in the pest control industry, Boyd stuck with it. His identical twin brother went on to become an anesthesiologist in Houston, Texas, and his older brother teaches at the Houston Community College, now known as Houston City College.

Boyd and his father transformed Ford’s Pest Control into a successful formulation and distribution company, and in 1976, renamed the company Ford’s Chemical and Service.

As the decade came to a close, Boyd enrolled at Texas A&M to study chemical engineering. By his sophomore year, however, he set out on a different path.

“With encouragement from my dad, I switched majors and received a degree in entomology,” he says. “My dream at the time was to get married, work extremely hard and try to make $1 million by the time I reached 30.”

One by one, Boyd realized his dreams. He and his wife, Marilyn, married in December 1979 while in their senior year at Texas A&M. They met in high school and had their first date at age 15. Their son, Blake, is 43; their daughter, Kristen, is 38, and they have five grandchildren.

In 1982, at age 24, Boyd graduated from Texas A&M and joined his father in the business full-time. The company consisted of about six trucks for the pest control service business, a small formulation facility and a retail storefront.

“A few years later I was introduced to Mel Goldberg, who was representing Makhteshim Agan Industries in the United States, and we started buying diazinon and chlorpyrifos from Israel,” Boyd says. “The relationship flourished, and every year Ford’s Chemical became a bigger company.”

Forging ahead

In 1989, Boyd and his father sold the business to Roussel UCLAF. The deal came with a three-year contract to run Roussel Non Crop in the United States. After Boyd’s contract expired, he left the company and immediately started over by launching CSI.

“We had a few years of not formulating and producing any product due to the non-compete agreement,” Boyd says. “But by 1995, CSI was off and running.”

Then tragedy struck. In 2004, a fire broke out in CSI’s manufacturing facility. No one was hurt, but the building and its contents were destroyed.

“I made a strategic decision for CSI to partner with Adama, an Israeli [agricultural chemical] company,” he says. “The partnership lasted 22 years and was very successful.”

In fact, the business grew every year; revenue started at $57 million and has grown to $275 million. Even more impressive, according to Boyd, the company’s gross margin percentage also grew.

“None of this would have been possible without the trust and respect the partners had for each other. We supported each other’s wishes and visions well,” he says. “I have tremendous pride in the team of people that has been assembled to run the complex Adama Consumer & Professional business. It is the best team in our industry by far, and the future of the company is very bright.”

(Photo: Mark Boyd)

From the ashes of the 2004 warehouse fire, top, rose a CSI that was even stronger and more successful. (Photo: Mark Boyd)

Fulfilling a need

Over the years, CSI transitioned from a post-patent pest control solutions formulator to a hybrid supplier with a stable of novel products. The company has brought to market such innovative products as dry flowable baits, a patented Precision Delivery System, as well as encapsulated and pressurized solutions.

Pest management is just one of CSI’s product lines. Others target golf and turf, consumers and production animal. It also provides technical and custom solutions.

“I am truly blessed for the experience I had working with a great partner and very smart people at CSI over the years,” Boyd says. “I cannot imagine a more fruitful life doing anything else.”

Anyone who has visited CSI’s headquarters cannot help but notice the showroom and office featuring more than 120 animal trophies from three continents and numerous countries. Every animal was acquired on family hunting trips, except for the Bengal tiger, which was a gift.

“My father retired after the sale to Roussel, and he immediately planned a trip to Africa to hunt,” Boyd explains. “My 8-year-old son and I went with him. Many of the animals seen in the front office came from that hunting trip to Namibia.”

Thirty years later, Boyd took his son and his 8-year-old grandson to Zimbabwe. “My son shot a 16-foot crocodile, and I hunted for 10 days to get a leopard.” On this trip, his grandson shot his first animal: a springbok, just like his dad did when they were in Namibia. According to Boyd, both catches were eaten a day later for dinner.

Like most hunters, Boyd had the focus, confidence and patience to make a killing in the pest management industry. He is quick to credit his family, partners and colleagues.

“The pest management industry was and is the foundation of CSI,” he adds. “The people in this industry have made my working years very special for me.”

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Rockwell Labs: BorActin Insecticide Powder

The broad label of BorActin Insecticide Powder, a long-lasting non-repellent dust, allows for a wide choice of application methods such as a liquid spray, foam or even a mop solution or drain treatment. The product combats crawling insects such as cockroaches, ants and silverfish, as well as small flies (drain flies, fruit flies and phorid flies). It can be used in residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural applications, including both food and non-food areas, and for darkling beetle control in poultry houses.

Precision milling in pharmaceutical-grade equipment yields a superfine, odorless powder with no clumping and superior “dustability.” It is excellent for void treatments.

BorActin contains 99 percent boric acid as the active ingredient and is not corrosive to stainless steel. It remains active until removed and will not break down in heat or ultraviolet (UV) light. It is available in a one-pound bottle, a five- and 25-pound pail, and in a box of 36 four-ounce mop packets.

About Rockwell Labs

Founded in 1998 by Pest Management Professional Hall of Famer Dr. Cisse Spragins (Class of 2018), North Kansas City, Mo.-based Rockwell Labs offers products that are conceptualized, developed and formulated in-house. New products undergo extensive testing in-house, in the field and at major universities before they are produced and launched in the professional market.

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Cetane Associates: Free Value Range Analysis

A business valuation helps owners understand what their company is truly worth, whether for a sale, succession planning, financing, or long-term growth strategy. It can also identify opportunities to increase value and improve future marketability.

Cetane provides detailed, market-based valuations backed by real transaction data and extensive mergers and acquisitions (M&A) experience in the residential and commercial service industries, giving business owners accurate insights they can trust.

About Cetane Associates

Cetane is a leading provider of financial advisory services to business owners in the propane, heating oil, pest control, lawn care, landscaping, HVAC and plumbing industries. Clients engage Cetane to advise on sales, spin-offs and acquisitions, as well as to perform valuation and ad hoc corporate finance assignments.

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