About the National Lighting Bureau

About the National Lighting Bureau 2023-04-27T14:11:39-05:00

Welcome to the National Lighting Bureau

We exist to create demand for High-Benefit Lighting®— efficient lighting designed to optimize human performance, health, safety, and commerce — by educating those who make and influence decisions about lighting. The NLB offers educational videos from the Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum, lighting research from accredited University and research centers, and we feature members’ articles about the future of High Benefit Lighting.

Our Mission

The National Lighting Bureau (NLB) exists to create demand for High-Benefit Lighting®— efficient lighting designed to optimize human performance, health, safety, and commerce — by educating those who make and influence decisions about lighting.

Articles and News Releases

NLB staff develops original articles and news releases for magazines and journals with targeted readerships (e.g., building owners and managers, plant engineers, health-care facility administrators, retail executives, office managers, school-board members, college and university personnel, law-enforcement officials, and the general public). The articles provide guidance for achieving High-Benefit Lighting and other important information people need to know to put lighting to work for them.

Resources

The NLB offers educational materials to help nontechnical, lighting decision-makers understand lighting and the lighting issues and choices facing them. Also available free of charge are videos from the Bureau’s Annual Lighting Forum, a Lighting Designer Directory, feature articles, and more.

Publications

The NLB has produced guidebooks to help nontechnical, lighting decision-makers understand lighting and the lighting issues and choices facing them.

Tesla Awards

The Tesla Awards™ are the NLB’s way of honoring excellence in new construction and retrofit lighting designs that enhance the value of lighting for people. Projects will be evaluated based on how well they demonstrate improved visual performance, enhanced occupant satisfaction, or improved safety and security, and support current thinking on light and health recommendations. Eligible projects include indoor and outdoor lighting for commercial, institutional, residential, industrial and municipal projects completed within the 2018 and 2019 calendar years.

Lighting-Designer Directory

The NLB offers a searchable directory of lighting designers who can help you complete your next High-Benefit Lighting project.

Board of Directors

Chair
Mary Beth Gotti

Vice Chair

Ruby Jadwet
CEO and Founder
Truly Green Solutions

Secretary
Karen Willis
Industry Director
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)

Treasurer
Glen Gracia
Head of Communications & Brand
LEGRAND

Directors-at-Large

Raymond E. Kasmark
Director, Business Development
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)

Jeremy Yon
Industry Relations Leader
Current

Cary Mendelsohn, CLMC
Chief Executive Officer
Imperial Lighting Maintenance Company

Terry K. McGowan, LC, FIES
International Dark Sky Association (IDA)

Howard P. Lewis
Specification Sales
Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)
Spectro Lume, LLC

Members

Sean T. Tegart
President and CEO
Biological Innovations and Optimization Systems, LLC (BIOS Lighting)

Jane White
EVP, Sales and Marketing
Finelite

Andrew Koch
President
Kurtzon Lighting

TBD
Head of Product Marketing
LEDVANCE

Kevin Tighe
Vice President of Labor Relations and Field Service
NECA

Christina Peña
Marketing Coordinator
New Star Lighting

Paul Pompeo
President
Pompeo Group

Dan Kennedy
Director of Corporate Marketing 
QSSI

Chris Holstein
VP, Product Management
Universal Lighting Technologies

TBA
Office of the Chief Architect
U.S. General Services Administration

Jon Perper
Chief Executive Officer
Zled Lighting

Ruskin Hartley
Executive Director
International Dark Sky Association

Chad Nienhuis
General Manager
A+ Lighting Solutions, LLC

Karsten Fetten
VP of Product Management
SATCO NUVO

Staff

NLB’s Office is located in Nashville, TN. Contact staff by telephone (615-379-7707) or e-mail (info@nlb.org). NLB Executive Director Randy Reid oversees Bureau operations.