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Avnet | Appointments | Jul 10, 2025
Avnet Announces Gilles Beltran as New President
Avnet Announces Gilles Beltran as New President Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT) has appointed Gilles Beltran as President of Avnet EMEA. Currently President of Avnet Silica, one of Avnet’s European semiconductor specialist divisions, Gilles Beltran will be succeeding Slobodan Puljarevic and Mario Orlandi, who have co-led the EMEA region with distinction for seven years. Read more »
Signify | Appointments | May 28, 2025
Signify names As Tempelman as Chief Executive Officer
Signify names As Tempelman as Chief Executive Officer Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that As Tempelman will become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Signify from September 1, subject to his appointment to the Board of Management, with Željko Kosanović continuing as interim CEO until then. Read more »
Awards | Organic Lighting | May 19, 2025
FortaCast: ‘Best in Show’ Win at 2025 Lightfair Innovation Awards
FortaCast: ‘Best in Show’ Win at 2025 Lightfair Innovation Awards Organic Lighting is proud to announce that its patented FortaCast solution has been awarded the Overall Most Innovative Product and Best Outdoor Luminaire at the 2025 LFI Innovation Awards – one of the world’s most prestigious honors in the architectural and commercial lighting. The judging panel were highly impressed, highlighting the solution was truly innovative and “original, unique and application specific.” Read more »
Awards | LightFair | May 13, 2025
Congratulations to all the LightFair 2025 Innovation Awards Winners
Congratulations to all the LightFair 2025 Innovation Awards Winners The 2025 LightFair Innovation Awards celebrated cutting-edge design, performance, and technology in lighting. Top honors went to Organic Lighting Systems’ FortaCast, BIOS Lighting’s SkyView Tile, DALI Alliance’s DALI+, and ams OSRAM’s EVIYOS Shape—each recognized for pushing the boundaries in outdoor, indoor, control, and chip-level innovation. Read more »
DALI Awards | Awards | Mar 25, 2025
Winners of DALI Lighting Awards 2024/2025 Announced
Winners of DALI Lighting Awards 2024/2025 Announced The winners of the prestigious DALI Lighting Awards 2024/2025 have been revealed. Organized by the DALI Alliance – the global industry organization for DALI lighting control – the awards spotlight the best implementations and innovations in DALI lighting control across the globe. Read more »
ams Osram | Fraunhofer | Awards | Deutscher Zukunftspreis | Nov 28, 2024
A Research Team from ams OSRAM and Fraunhofer Wins the Deutscher Zukunftspreis for Digital Light
A Research Team from ams OSRAM and Fraunhofer Wins the Deutscher Zukunftspreis for Digital Light Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier honored the winners of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2024 at a formal ceremony in Berlin. The award was presented to a team of experts led by Dr. Norwin von Malm and Stefan Grötsch from ams OSRAM and Dr. Hermann Oppermann from the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM for the technological implementation of their idea — an LED matrix that turns car headlights into projectors. The LED technology developed by the team opens up new possibilities for innovative designs thanks to its high-resolution light distribution and its energy efficiency. Read more »
Appointments | Casambi | Nov 04, 2024
Casambi Announces Generational Change in Board of Directors
Casambi Announces Generational Change in Board of Directors Global leader in wireless smart lighting control, Casambi, is pleased to announce a significant leadership transition as part of its broader strategy for accelerated growth. Effective November 1, 2024, Kay Pawlik has assumed the role of Chairman of the Board, succeeding long-standing chairman Antti Kokkinen. This change marks a generational shift in Casambi’s leadership, aimed at supporting the company’s continued expansion in its core markets of EMEA, North America, and APAC. Read more »
Helvar | Appointments | Sep 09, 2024
Helvar Welcomes Kim Långström as New CEO
Helvar Welcomes Kim Långström as New CEO Helvar is pleased to announce that Kim Långström has officially assumed the role of CEO as of September 2nd, 2024. With extensive experience in the smart building industry, Kim is ready to lead Helvar into its next phase of growth and innovation while advancing its mission to provide intelligent, sustainable lighting solutions. Read more »
AcuityBrands | Appointments | Aug 01, 2024
Acuity Brands Appoints Sach Sankpal to Lead Lighting Business
Acuity Brands Appoints Sach Sankpal to Lead Lighting Business Acuity Brands, Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (“Acuity”), a market-leading industrial technology company, announced that Sach Sankpal, SVP and Chief Growth and Transformation Officer, has been appointed as President of Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (“ABL”). Read more »
Appointments | Ennostar | Lextar | Jun 13, 2024
Ennostar Announces High-Level Appointments
Ennostar Announces High-Level Appointments Ennostar Inc. announced its high-level personnel changes. Following Ennostar’s Board of Directors resolution, Mr. Patrick Fan, President of its subsidiary EPISTAR Corporation, and Dr. Terry Tang, President of Lextar Electronics Corporation will be swapping roles, effective July 1, 2024. Additionally, Mr. BY Chang will step down as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Spokesperson of Ennostar effective immediately, with Mr. Jerry Liu taking over the position. Read more »
Zumtobel | Awards | May 23, 2024
Zumtobel Group Awarded the Third Consecutive ECOVadis Gold
Zumtobel Group Awarded the Third Consecutive ECOVadis Gold For the third time in a row, the Zumtobel Group has been awarded a gold medal by the independent sustainability rating platform EcoVadis. In an industry comparison, the lighting group is ranked among the top 1% of all companies assessed by the platform. The successive recognition with the gold medal underlines the consistent and continuous development of the Zumtobel Group and its sustainability activities. Read more »
BrightStar Awards | Awards | May 23, 2024
LEDs Magazine Recognized More than 50 Products with BrightStar Awards
LEDs Magazine Recognized More than 50 Products with BrightStar Awards LEDs Magazine to announced the recipients of its third annual BrightStar Awards. Re-launched from the past Sapphire Awards program, the BrightStar Awards acknowledge innovation in solid-state lighting components, controls, and finished luminaire systems for general lighting and specialty applications. Read more »
Instrument Systems | Appointments | Apr 05, 2024
New Managing Director at Instrument Systems
New Managing Director at Instrument Systems On 2 April 2024 the position of the Managing Director passed from Yasumasa Kuboyama to Dr. Yuta Yamanoi, who together with CEO Dr. Markus Ehbrecht form the new Instrument Systems management team. Read more »
Appointments | Feb 13, 2024
New appointments to Recolight Board of Directors
New appointments to Recolight Board of Directors Recolight is pleased to announce the appointment of two new directors to their board. They are Steven Reed, Commercial Manager at Trilux, and Stephen Bell, Services Transformation & Compliance Director UK & IE at Zumtobel. Both have over 20 years of experience in the lighting industry and are a valued addition to the Recolight board. Read more »
CIE | Awards | Feb 08, 2024
CIE Gold Pin Awardees
CIE Gold Pin Awardees CIE Gold Pins are the highest honour awarded by the CIE. Established in 2007, the awards are granted once every four years at the time of the CIE Session. A distinguished committee of the President, President-Elect and Past-President selects nominees, which are confirmed by the Governing Board. Read more »
Awards | DALI Alliance | Feb 01, 2024
DALI Lighting Awards 2023 Winners Unveiled
DALI Lighting Awards 2023 Winners Unveiled The winners of the DALI Lighting Awards 2023, organised by the DALI Alliance – the global industry organisation for DALI lighting control – have been announced. Each of the eight categories recognises the best use of DALI lighting control in projects from around the world, with the winners chosen by a renowned panel of judges including lighting designers, media specialists and global lighting experts. Read more »
LpS Digital Awards | Awards | Dec 11, 2023
LpS Digital Award Winners 2023 Announced
LpS Digital Award Winners 2023 Announced Last Thursday, December 7, 2023, at the LpS Digital Summit, the prestigious LpS Digital Awards were presented, celebrating outstanding achievements in the lighting sector. Read more »
Casambi | Appointments | Nov 29, 2023
Casambi Appoints Mark McClear as New CEO
Casambi Appoints Mark McClear as New CEO Global smart lighting control company, Casambi, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark McClear as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. McClear takes over from Kari Mettälä, who, following five years of dynamic leadership, has stepped down to pursue other strategic priorities. Read more »
CIE | Awards | Oct 31, 2023
CIE Waldram Gold Pin Awardee 2023: Naomi Miller
CIE Waldram Gold Pin Awardee 2023: Naomi Miller In 2023 Naomi Miller from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Portland, Oregon (US) received the highest recognition awarded by the CIE for work in applied illuminating engineering, the Waldram Gold Pin Award for Exceptional Outstanding Contributions in Applied Illuminating Engineering. The award puts a special focus on work that relates to recent CIE publications and recognizes Naomi Miller’s outstanding and exceptionally broad contributions in this area. Read more »
L-Prize | Signify | Awards | Oct 31, 2023
Signify Wins Prototype Phase of U.S. Department of Energy’s Prestigious L-Prize Competition
Signify Wins Prototype Phase of U.S. Department of Energy’s Prestigious L-Prize Competition Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that it is a winner of the Prototype Phase of the U.S. Department of Energy’s L-Prize competition. Signify’s winning prototypes – the Generation Flex modular luminaire and Interact Next Gen scalable connected lighting system – were chosen for their exceptional performance across six areas: efficacy; quality of light; connectivity; product life cycle; technical innovation; and diversity, equity and inclusion. Read more »
Ledvance | Appointments | Oct 13, 2023
Ledvance Merges Branding and Communication Divisions for a Unified Future
Ledvance Merges Branding and Communication Divisions for a Unified Future Garching-based lighting company, Ledvance, has announced the unification of its Global Brand Management and Corporate Communications departments, effective from October 1st. The decision to merge these departments is aimed at fostering a more holistic approach to branding and embedding the corporate identity more deeply into its communications. Read more »
Tridonic | Appointments | Oct 13, 2023
Tridonic – Thomas Ender Takes Over as SVP Global Sales
Tridonic – Thomas Ender Takes Over as SVP Global Sales Thomas Ender is the new Senior Vice President Global Sales at Tridonic and as such heads the company’s international sales organisation. Thomas Ender succeeds Christoph Zimmermann who decided to leave the company at the end of September. In his new position, Thomas reports directly to Tridonic CEO Hugo Rohner. Read more »
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