Jon Sargent | Revere Chamber Board

The most useful thing about me is that I

didn’t come up the way you’d expect —

and that’s exactly why I catch what the

conventional path walks right past.

I learned to run a business in professional kitchens. Dish pit at fourteen, executive chef in

my twenties. People underestimate that classroom. A kitchen is a high-pressure operation

with brutal margins where excellence is a system and the team is everything — and it

turned out to be the finest education I could have asked for. So when a back injury ended

that career, I didn’t go looking for a softer version of it. I taught myself an entirely new trade

— commercial access control systems, the infrastructure that moves people through

cities, airports, and venues — and founded On Spot Solutions in 2019. Today I’m building

ATLAS to preserve the hard-earned tribal knowledge of the trades and pass it on to the next

generation of field service professionals.

I’ve spent my whole life being told no by the institutions that were supposed to open doors

for me — and getting in anyway. That’s not a chip on my shoulder. It’s a skill.

I’ve called Revere home for more than a decade, and I chose it on purpose — a city bold

enough to give America its first public beach, built on the then-radical notion that

something that good shouldn’t be fenced off for the few, but open to everyone. That’s the

spirit that drew me here, and it’s the one I’ve lived by all along: tell me a door is closed, and

I’ll build my own — then hold it open for whoever’s coming up behind me