CONTRIBUTORS

Leif Elgethun

Leif Elgethun is a serial entrepreneur with fifteen years of full stack clean energy experience and deep market expertise in commercial and industrial building energy retrofits. He has founded and led five companies to profitablity including two exits. A licensed Professional Engineer and LEED accredited professional, he has three engineering and science bachelor degrees and a Masters in engineering. When he isn't busy building Retrolux or helping improve his community, Leif can often be found biking, running, mountaineering, skiing, or rafting up and down mountains across the country.

Marc Hodges

Marc Hodges is the Director of Solution Sales/ Lighting for Sonepar USA. Marc works with all 14 Sonepar USA Operating Companies (OpCo) maximizing the capabilities and expertise Sonepar offers to its customers. Marc received his BA and MBA from the University of Mississippi and started his lighting career in Lyon, France. He then held various positions with Cooper Electric Supply in New York City. Marc also worked for Southern California Illumination (SCI) in Los Angeles in Specification Sales and as a lighting specialist for Irby Electric in Nashville, working in the renovation market and focusing on industrial customers. Marc lives in Franklin, TN with his wife and 3 daughters. He enjoys watching soccer, reading books and playing golf.

Meet our Editor

Randy Reid

Randy Reid began his career in 1983 with GE Lighting and has helped shape the lighting market over the past four decades. He served as President of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 2002-2003 and was chairman for the IES Annual Conference in 2010. Randy received the IES President’s Award in 2011 and again in 2020.

In 1999, he founded the EdisonReport where he serves as the Editor and Publisher today. In February of 2019, Randy was appointed the Executive Director of the National Lighting Bureau, a non-profit organization dedicated to high-benefit lighting. In 2020, Randy launched designing lighting (dl), a digital magazine serving as a new voice for the lighting design community. In addition, Randy owns LumEfficient, a heavy industrial lighting company.

Randy is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. He holds a Bachelor of Science from University of Alabama and an M.B.A. from the University of Tennessee.

Editor and Publisher

Randy Reid

VP, Advertising Sales

Cliff Smith 917.705.3439

Production and Design Coordinator

Angie Hullfish

Art Direction

Seraphine Morris

Staff Writers

Parker Allen

Katie Smith

Jacob Wright

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Board Of Directors

Think the LED Transition Is Over? It’s Only Begun.

By Marc Hodges

Before and After: A College Upgrade where Quality of Light is More Important than Energy Saved

By Randy Reid with Katie Smith

Viva Light Vegas!

By Leif Elgethun

Key Takeaways from LightFair 2022 in Las Vegas

What’s New Embodied Carbon, An Emerging Trend

By Park Allen

Challenges Facing the Lighting Maintenance Contractor: What To Consider

By Jacob Wright

Conference News: 69th NALMCO Annual Convention and Trade Show

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