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Gordon Clements - Founder & Inventor of Securshade

My name is Gordon Clements

Founder and Inventor of Securshade


For thirty five years I focused my window treatment fabrication company on servicing schools. When I turned the company over to my daughter, I decided to continue my efforts to design window coverings that improved a school's physical and learning environment. Having spent a lot of time listening to my customers' needs, I realized, "A teacher's highest priority, and best use, should be directed to providing an optimum learning experience. Being able to remotely  

lower all the shades in a classroom allows the teacher to focus on the students when shifting to an audio visual presentation, as opposed to having to manually lower all the shades. This added control provides peace of mind to teachers who feel they are teaching in a fish bowl. I also recognized that window shades can make space cooler in summer and warmer in winter - saving energy in the process. But only if they are in the down position - which is not the case seventy-five percent of the time."

This led me to conclude there were 3 main areas of improvement I should address: 

1. An ability to easily ensure that all shades were down at night and on weekends to improve energy management and security.

2. An ability to lower shades rapidly when necessary - to remove sight lines or provide protection from flying glass during a severe weather event.

3. A teacher's ability to remotely lower the shades in their classroom for an AV presentation. Manually closing the shades risks losing control of the class.

In 2013 I began work on SecurShade - a system to remotely and instantaneously lower all the shades in a building with a single push of a button, without the need for any other person's intervention. I also recognized the importance of knowing where in the building the system was activated for better decision making during a threat. This is the inspiration behind SECURSHADE.

Prior to opening Gordon's Window Décor in Vermont, I earned a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from McGill, and my early career included GE, Colgate Palmolive and DuPont before moving into the window treatment business in 1971 as General Manager of the architectural and US divisions of Hunter Douglas. In 1976 I purchased Conso Graber, the 2nd largest window treatment manufacturer in Canada. In 1981, my wife Dianne, and I, chose to move to Vermont to raise our 3 girls. This is when I started Gordon’s Window Décor.