Peers & Profiles

Bryan Smith started his now 20-year career at the ground floor, so to speak, as a draftsperson working his way to a senior position at SMS Engineering, one of the largest independently owned consulting engineering firms between Calgary and Toronto.

LDS Nicholds Illumisoft 400

Illumisoft Lighting is an innovative company headquartered in Ottawa that focuses on suspended ceiling troffer LED fixtures that utilize optical film technology to achieve a high level of performance and efficiency.

LDS Beare Stanpro w 400

A conversation with Jeff Beare, Executive VP of Marketing at Stanpro, on the evolution of emergency lighting.

As LightForm approaches its twenty-fifth year serving architects, designers, and lighting enthusiasts across Canada, founder and owner Richard Assaly has a lot to be proud of. Since he first established LightForm in a 1200 square-foot space in Edmonton, Alberta...

As of February 2021, Martin Stephenson is the new President and CEO of Signify Canada. Given that he took office nearly a year into the pandemic and its related restrictions, it is easy to imagine him drawing on past experience to lead Signify’s response to this current health challenge and its consequences for Canadians and Canadian business.

Six years ago in February 2015, I interviewed David Nathaniel and called the profile I wrote “A Talent for Being There at the Right Time.” We met again this past February, this time virtually (without a cup of his wonderful expresso coffee). What follows is a summary of our conversation — “A Talent for Still Being There at the Right Time — Part 2.”

As an advanced networked lighting controls company serving the industrial and large commercial sectors, EcoGrid Technologies has demonstrated a commitment to innovation and the progression of the industry by utilizing open-source technology.

EIN 39 CS AEA 400 “It was amazing,” Alberta Electrical Alliance CEO Tara Ternes said of their first Virtual Electrical Learning Expo. “It was a built from scratch platform, based on our 26-years of experience doing the Expo,” so it certainly didn’t go without its challenges. “Going forward it will be much easier,” she said, adding that they learned a lot in the process of putting together and putting on the event virtually with Ivy Design, a marketing firm based out of Calgary, Alberta.

Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Mercury Lighting services national retail, multi-residential/commercial property management, energy service companies (ESCO), and auto dealerships. “From design to specifications, we offer turn-key services that go beyond the typical distributor model,” explained Mercury Lighting Vice President, Eric Tordjman.

“Never forget to look at the big picture.” These words of advice are from the father of Jason Prevost, his first mentor, who worked as a marketing specialist. Jason has repeated them often over the past two years during what might have been the hardest personal crisis of his life.

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