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Ruud Lighting Incorporated has announced the promotion of Christopher Ruud to president, a role that his father, Alan Ruud, held since founding the company in 1982. In his new role as president, Christopher will oversee all U.S.-based business units and operations. Alan will retain his role as chairman and CEO.

Cooper Lighting’s Jim McCarthy, Senior Marketing Specialist, has been awarded a 2009 Pillar of the Industry award from the American Lighting Association (ALA). Established in 2000, the ALA Pillar of the Industry award recognizes exceptional contributions that have advanced the programs and interests of the lighting industry and the ALA over the past 12-18 months. [...]

The 2009 IALD Lifetime Achievement Award, the greatest honor bestowed by the International Association of Lighting Designers, was presented to Derek Phillips, FIALD, founder of DPA Lighting Consultants and first to practice architectural design in the United Kingdom (UK), at IALD Enlighten Americas 2009 in Sonoma County, CA USA on October 10, 2009. The IALD [...]

Susan Solomon Auerbach, executive vice president – corporate development for Generation Brands was inducted into the American Lighting Association’s (ALA) Lighting Hall of Fame on September 15 at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. As the granddaughter of Henry Siegel, founder of Sea Gull Lighting, daughter of the late Edwin Solomon and a senior executive of [...]

WAC Lighting President Shelley Wang received Residential Lighting Magazine’s Industry Leadership Award on September 14 during the 2009 American Lighting Association Annual Conference held in Palos Verdes, CA. In other news, WAC Lighting Co-Founder Tai Wang was honored with the “Asian American Visionary” Award from the International Leadership Foundation at its annual gala in Washington [...]

LUXIM Corp., manufacturer of plasma lighting, has announced the appointment of Randy Reid as vice president of marketing. Reid will report to CEO Tony McGettigan. As a member of LUXIM’s management team, he will develop the company’s marketing and alliance strategies, and implement program initiatives for the company’s LIFI technology. Reid joins Luxim from Metrolight, [...]

Four more designers at Schuler Shook are now LEED Accredited Professionals. Michael White, Senior Designer in the Minneapolis office; Paul Whitaker, Lighting Designer and Theatre Planner also in Minneapolis; Giulio Pedota, Principal in the Chicago office; and Miory Kanashiro, Lighting Designer in the Chicago office. This rigorous exam–and it is, ask anybody who has taken [...]

OSRAM SYLVANIA recently named Rick Leaman as president and CEO, effective Oct. 1. Leaman will succeed Charlie Jerabek, who will assume a new role as the company’s vice chairman. Leaman has been executive vice president and general manager of OSRAM’s global Automotive Lighting division in Munich, Germany since 2006. His 25-year lighting career has included [...]

Keith T.S. Ward has joined LED company Luminus Devices Inc. as its new president, CEO and member of the board of directors. Previously, he was president and COO of EYE Lighting International of North America, a subsidiary of Iwasaki Electric Co. Ltd., of Tokyo Japan. Before EYE Lighting, Ward served as general manager at the [...]