Inventor of Kastle Systems building security system dead at 83

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Inventor of Kastle Systems building security system dead at 83

Jeff Clabaugh | [e-mail]
January 22, 2025, 10:58 AM

Gene Samburg, founder of Falls Church, Virginia-based Kastle Systems, has died at age 83.

Samburg may be best-known for the building security cards and fobs carried by thousands of D.C.-area office workers, and tens of thousands more across the country.


Gene Samburg, founder of Kastle Systems, has died. He was 83. (Courtesy Samburg family)

He founded Kastle Systems more than 50 years ago, capitalizing on his experience in technology and security to build what has become one of the largest building security companies in the country.

No cause for his death was reported. An obituary said he died peacefully at his home in Arlington on Jan. 14.

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Jeff Clabaugh
Jeff Clabaugh has spent 20 years covering the Washington region's economy and financial markets for WTOP as part of a partnership with the Washington Business Journal, and officially joined the WTOP newsroom staff in January 2016.

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