Interviews + Opinion

Chuck Swoboda, formerly CEO of Cree, provides his perspective on GE’s sale of its lighting business in a recent contribution to FORBES.

Part of my contribution to the April 2020 issue of tED Magazine was a short interview with the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Alex Baker, who has raised the alarm that lifetime claims for LED products are often misrepresented.

My contribution to the April issue of tED Magazine, the official publication of the NAED, included a roundtable by experts on the future of lighting.

For an article I produced about germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) for the June issues of ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR, I had the pleasure of engaging the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Mark Lien in a short interview about GUV. The IES recently produced a guide to GUV.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Felipe Leon, Integrated Lighting Campaign Lead, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for an article I’m developing about the Integrated Lighting Campaign (which will replace the Interior Lighting Campaign) for the Lighting Controls Association, now a sponsor of the U.S. Department of Energy program.

In this guest post, Mick Ventola, the founder and managing director of Ventola Projects, shares his experiences of the COVID crisis and its impact on business operations – and how best we might prepare for when life gets back to some semblance of normality.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Steven Pyshos, Business Development Manager, Commercial Downlighting, Cooper Lighting Solutions, and Rebecca Hadley-Catter, Manager, SOURCE Lighting Education Center, on the topic of light + color, specifically looking at developments with TM-30. The interview is being used to write an article on this topic for tED Magazine’s July issue.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Sally Lee, LC, Business Development & Special Projects, LEDVANCE LLC on the topic of light + color, specifically looking at developments with TM-30.

In a recent “Forces of Change” podcast, the Illuminating Engineering Society’s Mark Lien talked to Dr. Robert Karlicek of LESA at RPI to discuss how intelligent lighting systems can transform how people live and work.