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Jennifer M Hoben has
joined American Glass
Light as their
Eastern Regional Sales
Manager. Jennifer has
over 23 years in the
lighting industry.
Jennifer’s e-mail is:
Jennifer@AmericanGlassLight.com
David Vukovich is the new
Northeast Regional Sales Manager
for LSI. Previously
Vukovich worked for Acuity
Brands Lighting as Eastern
Region Specification Manager.
Jeffrey Augustine is no
longer with Osram Display
Optic and is seeking
opportunities elsewhere.
Augustine, a 20 year lighting
industry sales veteran, has
worked for Osram-Sylvania,
Philips, and Heraeus.
Augustine specializes in
medical, scientific, and SSTV
lighting sources such as xenon,
HID, and LED's. Augustine has
sold LED technology into the
medical, aviation, and airfield
markets. Augustine has an
extensive network of industry
contacts in key markets. He may
be reached at
jeffreyaugustine@gmail.com
Tim O'Brien,
former Vice President and
General Manager of
Architectural Lighting &
Controls at Cooper Lighting,
has left the industry and
joined Mathews Bronze as the
President. He can be
reached at
tobrien@matthewsintl.com
Peter Hegedus,
LC formerly of SPI
Lighting, has been
appointed as National Sales
Manager with
Electrix, Inc.
Peter brings over 10 years
of sales and management
experience to the New Haven,
CT based company and will be
working out of offices in
the Buffalo, NY area.
Please join us in welcoming
Peter to the Electrix team;
he can be reached at
phegedus@electrix.com or
by phone at (203) 868-9341.
To learn more about Electrix,
Inc. please visit
www.electrix.com
Effective June 4, 2007,
Paul Pohl has returned
to
Cooper Lighting
in Denver, CO as Marketing
Manager for the
Ametrix
product brand. Pohl has also
served as Marketing Manager
for Cooper Lighting's
Shaper
and
Lumiere
brands. He can be reached at
paul.pohl@cooperlighting.com
Kandy Kernes,
formerly of Hydrel,
has accepted the position of
Western Regional Sales
Manager with Visa
Lighting. Kandy brings
16 years of lighting
industry experience to the
California, Oregon,
Washington, British
Columbia, Nevada, Arizona,
Alaska and Hawaii Visa
Lighting territory. Kandy
resides and will be
headquartered in
California.
You may email Kandy at
kkernes@visalighting.com
or to learn more about Visa
Lighting please visit
www.visalighting.com.
Frank J. Dillenburg,
V P Operations/Sales, has
retired March 2, 2007. He
was employed by Radionic
Industries, Inc.
(ballast Manufacturer) for
the past 12 years and wants
everyone he met and worked
with to know how much he
enjoyed our industry. He can
be reached at .......
FJDillenburg@AOL.Com
Cooper Lighting
has promoted Ted
Brickenden
to the
position of Director of
Architectural Exterior
Products.
John Bagwell
has joined the Lighting
Controls team of Lithonia
Lighting as
Director-Synergy Controls.
Bagwell has more than 20
years experience in the
lighting control
marketplace. Prior to
joining Lithonia Lighting,
he was one of the founders
of Triatek, which later
became part of Automated
Logic Corporation (a United
Technologies company), and
headed up their lighting
control business.
Rich
Westrick
has accepted the position of
Director-Embedded Controls.
Westrick has been with
Lithonia Lighting since 1997
and was most
recently Director-Synergy
Controls beginning in 2005.
After 40 plus years in the Lighting
Business, Jim Pate is
retiring. He has been employed with
Hubbell for the past 29 years and
wanted everyone in the industry who
he has met and worked with to know
how much he has enjoyed our industry
He can be reached at
J_R_Pate@comcast.net
Cooper Announcements:
Tim O'Brien promoted to VP, GM
Architectural and Lighting Control
Products.
Tom Benton will lead strategic
initiatives related to energy solutions.
Danny Castillo, promoted to VP,
Marketing.
It is with deep regret and sorrow that
we learned of the death of our friend
and colleague,
Robert J.
Anderson, who passed away on
Tuesday, November 28th.
Michael D. Morin, formerly
Central Sales Manager with WAC
Lighting, has accepted a
specification sales position with
Architectural Lighting Associates in
Dallas, Texas.
Greg Deal,
formerly of Cooper Lighting has been
appointed Vice President of Sales for
New Star Lighting. Greg can be
reached at
gdeal@555.com.
Dave Coker,
Sales Manager of
ILC
(Intelligent Lighting Controls),
is no longer with them and is exploring
other opportunities. Dave can be
reached at
daveacoker@aol.com
Rob
Chassé joins the BEGA/US.
BEGA/US has added the position of Central
Territory Manager to better serve their
representatives in the 18 state region.
Rob’s exceptional educational background
includes the following achievements:
An A.S. in Engineering Science from The
State University of New York, a B.S. in
Architectural Engineering, Illumination
Engineering emphasis from the University of
Colorado, Boulder and an M.B.A. in Marketing
from the University St. Thomas in St. Paul,
MN.
Bringing with him nearly twenty years of
engineering and sales experience in the
lighting industry, Rob has had the roles of
Applications/Research and Development
Engineer, Technical Sales Engineer and North
East Regional Sales Manager. For the last 15
years, Rob has been a manufacturer’s
representative in Minnesota and has
represented BEGA/US for all of that time.
Based out of the Twin Cities, where he lives
with his wife Mary, daughter Melisse and son
Charles, Rob will have ready access to the
central territory. When not promoting
BEGA products, Rob enjoys fly fishing,
hunting and skiing, as well as classic motor
boating.
With his strong lighting
background, sales and marketing
skill set and addictive
enthusiasm, Rob is eager to get
into his territory to continue
marketing the BEGA/US product
line and philosophy.
Please join us in welcoming Rob
Chassé to the BEGA/US team
