New Electrix President!

Monday, Sep 10, 2018

Please join Electrix, LLC in welcoming Dwight Kitchen as our new team leader, taking on the position of President and General Manager effective immediately. He will have responsibility for all Electrix business development and operations, reporting to Chief Executive Officer, Cory Meyer.

Dwight will be leading the company to build on Electrix's strong reputation for high quality, innovative lighting and architectural solutions. With Electrix' recent launches of the MagneConnect™ and ellumi™ product lines, we're excited to leverage Dwight's history of strategic, operational and commercial accomplishments to achieve major growth.

Dwight has a proven 30-year track record with Osram Sylvania, serving most recently as the Vice President and General Manager for Traxon e:cue North America. Prior, Dwight was the Regional CEO Luminaires for Osram Sylvania, starting up a luminaire business that grew substantially in three years by introducing "open innovation" with partners to accelerate development, extending the business to South America, and developing partnerships with peer market leaders. Along the way the new portfolio received numerous accolades including: Design Journal's Gold & Platinum Awards for Design Excellence; Lighting for Tomorrow Design Award; and Next Generation Luminaires Design Competition Award.

Dwight was instrumental in several transformations at Osram Sylvania through a distinguished career with key roles in sales, marketing, and engineering, first managing the technology shift from traditional lighting product to solid state components and then into an integrated solid state solutions provider.

Mark Lahner, will serve as the Executive Vice President for Business Development focusing on strategic relationships, industry alignment and collaboration opportunities. With his years of experience and relationships in the industry, we are confident Mark will be a vehicle to further accelerate our growth.

"Dwight comes to us with a wealth of lighting experience running various business areas of Osram. We look forward to continuing towards our goal of being a world class, customer concentric partner to our clientele in the Architectural and Industrial channels. We are also excited about the opportunities for the future with Mark focused on developing products and customers in the Architectural lighting channel," said Cory Meyer, CEO.

Electrix, LLC, is an established architectural lighting manufacturer located in New Haven, Connecticut. The rapid response focused organization has a rich, 50-year history of building well designed and elegantly engineered lighting fixtures for architectural, task and industrial applications. Electrix specializes in advanced linear LED systems for indoor and outdoor applications, cove and indirect lighting for the architectural lighting community.