Dr. David H. Sliney, Ph.D., serves as chair of the IES Photobiology Committee and holds a Ph.D. in biophysics and medical physics from the University of London, Institute of Ophthalmology. He worked for the US Army Public Health Center until retiring in 2007. His research interests focus on UV effects upon the eye, optical hazards from intense light sources and lasers, laser-tissue interactions and laser applications in medicine and surgery. He served as member, advisor and chairman of numerous committees active in the establishment of safety standards for protection against non-ionizing radiation (ANSI, ISO, ACGIH, IEC, WHO, NCRP, and ICNIRP).

Richard Vincent is the Manager, the Brickner Research Unit on Community Medicine and TB/UV Studies at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai Hospital in New York. He is a leader in the refinement of upper-room germicidal UV for control of infectious disease, such as tuberculosis. He has been a consultant to many healthcare facilities in providing guidance on efficacy of germicidal ultraviolet and spoken throughout the world on this technology. He has long been active in the IES Photobiology Committee and is currently the chair of an ASHRAE Committee preparing guidance on Upper Room germicidal UV. Further he chairs the CIE TC 6-52 on the gonioradiometric measurement of UVGI luminaires.

Diane Borys is an award-winning Architectural Lighting Designer and founder of Noctiluca Lighting Design and Consulting, based in San Diego, CA. With a background in Architectural Engineering, Diane specializes in balancing the Art and Science of Lighting Design for commercial and hospitality projects. Since 2006, Diane has been passionate about ensuring each project is a creative, coordinated visual experience that is cost effective, energy-efficient, meets owner goals and celebrates the Architectural environment. 

Megan Carroll is a Senior Specification Sales Manager with New York Digital, Acuity Brands with over thirty years experience in various sales & marketing roles. Most recently, she served as the Chairwoman for the 2018/2109 IES Annual Conference. She also chaired the IES Illumination Awards from 2014-2016 and has served on the Medals Committee, the IA committee & the annual conference steering committee. Megan is a member of the IESNYC.

As Facility Service Manager with Center for Energy and Environment, Erik provides training to building operations and management staff in both the public and private sector to improve building operations and maintenance, increase occupant comfort, and reduce energy consumption. Erik is also involved in sales and client relations for the One-Stop Efficiency Shop small business lighting program.  

Mark has designed interior and exterior lighting systems for a wide range of applications including residential, municipal, retail, healthcare and both conventional and nuclear power plants. Over several decades he has provided lighting education while working, presenting and teaching across four continents. He serves on over twenty lighting related committees including ASHRAE, ANSI, IEEE, ISO and the IES. As a part of his job he also monitors over 100 lighting related organizations.

Mark is a columnist for Lighting Design and Application Magazine (LD+A) writing on the changes in our industry and he hosts a podcast on lighting trends and technologies. Mark has served on multiple boards and is currently on several executive committees advising various organizations. Mark ran the educational centers for both Cooper and Hubbell Lighting and was the Director of Government & Industry Relations for OSRAM SYLVANIA before joining the Illuminating Engineering Society and he serves as lighting consultant to the IES today through his company, Augmented Illumination.

Bob Preston is Lighting & Energy Specialist with Capital Electric - A Sonepar Company. Bob is Lighting Certified by the NCQLP and is a member of the IES. He has been with Capital Electric for 32 years. Bob supports energy efficient lighting activities, coordinates utility incentive programs for the sales team and their customers, and has, for many years, spearheaded lighting education events across all of Capital Electric’s footprint. 

Randy Reid is the CEO of LumEfficient, a company focused on heavy industrial Lighting. He is also the Editor and Publisher of the EdisonReport.  In addition, Reid recently became the Executive Director of the National Lighting Bureau.  Reid is a past president of the Illuminating Engineering Society and 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.

David Haar is the Senior Director of Strategic Marketing at Vital Vio. He has over 30 years of experience in branding, communications, lead generation, research, analytics, and product management, domestically and globally. He brings extensive marketing leadership experience to Vital Vio having built high-performance marketing teams, driven profitable growth and cultivated stellar brands within the healthcare and technology sectors for startups, growth and public companies. Most recently David led his own marketing consulting firm, delivering strategic and tactical expertise to companies that did not need or could not afford a full-time, executive-level marketing professional. Prior to that David served as senior vice president of marketing for InfuSystem, a healthcare services company, and as vice president of marketing for National Medical Health Card, a pharmacy benefits manager. David has a BA in English from the University at Albany; in his spare time, he can be found in his kayak attempting to trick bass with fake worms.

Dr. Edward Nardell is a professor in the Departments of Medicine and of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an associate professor in the Departments of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an associate in medicine in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), in both the Division of Global Health Equity and the Pulmonary Division. His research interests involve the control of tuberculosis under resource-limited conditions, with a focus on the pathogenesis of drug-resistant tuberculosis, its airborne transmission, and transmission control in institutions.

Dr. David H. Sliney, Ph.D., serves as chair of the IES Photobiology Committee and holds a Ph.D. in biophysics and medical physics from the University of London, Institute of Ophthalmology. He worked for the US Army Public Health Center until retiring in 2007. His research interests focus on UV effects upon the eye, optical hazards from intense light sources and lasers, laser-tissue interactions and laser applications in medicine and surgery. He served as member, advisor and chairman of numerous committees active in the establishment of safety standards for protection against non-ionizing radiation (ANSI, ISO, ACGIH, IEC, WHO, NCRP, and ICNIRP).

Paul Donald Forbes is an experienced teacher, researcher, manager, advisor, and consultant. His positions have included Professor in Temple University Medical School, Director of Charles River Phototoxicology  research and testing laboratory, and Senior Toxicologist in the Toxarus consulting firm. He has instructed undergraduates, graduate students and dermatology residents; has supported development of, and ongoing research in, phototoxicology laboratories such as the FDA’s NCTR, Arkansas.  Scientific meetings, collaborative research and client services led him throughout Europe, UK, Australia and Japan over a 45+ year career. He has provided leadership in scientific societies; his current professional efforts are invested in consulting on new product development.  PubMed lists 45 peer-reviewed articles; other publications include professional standards and other guidance documents.  Memberships include American Society for Photobiology, Academy of Toxicological Sciences and IARC panels.

Dr. Rolf Bergman is currently an independent consultant (sole proprietor) in lighting technology and measurements. After graduating with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1972 from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Bergman worked for over twenty-eight years at GE Lighting, all at Nela Park, Cleveland, OH, both as an individual contributor and manager in lamp technology. While at GE Lighting he was involved new product and process development, measurement capability and industry standards. Dr. Bergman was named Chief Scientist, Lamp Technology in 1992, a position he held until retirement in 2001. Currently, among other consulting work, he serves as an assessor of lighting laboratories for accreditation to NVLAP, and accrediting body organized at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Richard Vincent is the Manager, the Brickner Research Unit on Community Medicine and TB/UV Studies at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai Hospital in New York. He is a leader in the refinement of upper-room germicidal UV for control of infectious disease, such as tuberculosis. He has been a consultant to many healthcare facilities in providing guidance on efficacy of germicidal ultraviolet and spoken throughout the world on this technology. He has long been active in the IES Photobiology Committee and is currently the chair of an ASHRAE Committee preparing guidance on Upper Room germicidal UV. Further he chairs the CIE TC 6-52 on the gonioradiometric measurement of UVGI luminaires.

Dean Saputa has served the HVAC community for more than three decades, helping to educate and train facility managers, specifying engineers and industry professionals with an emphasis on air and surface treatment and cleaning technologies. The vice president and co-founder of UV Resources, Mr. Saputa is an active member on several ASHRAE Technical Committees including serving as a past Chair of TC-2.9 (Ultraviolet Air and Surface Treatment); Chair of SPC-185 (Method of Testing Ultraviolet Lamps), and Founder of GPC-37, Guidelines for the Application of Upper-Air Ultraviolet Germicidal Devices to Control the Transmission of Airborne Pathogens.  He is a contributing author of the 2019 ASHRAE Application Handbook, chapter 62: “Ultraviolet Air and Surface Treatment,” as well as ASHRAE’s position document: “Filtration and Air Cleaning” that was reaffirmed in 2018.

Dr. Paul Jensen has worked at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for over 30 years. He is currently serving as the Lead for Airborne Infection Prevention & Control and Laboratory Biosafety, both domestically and internationally, and is assigned to the Global TB Branch, Division of Global HIV/AIDS & TB (DGHT), Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

As Facility Service Manager with Center for Energy and Environment, Erik provides training to building operations and management staff in both the public and private sector to improve building operations and maintenance, increase occupant comfort, and reduce energy consumption. Erik is also involved in sales and client relations for the One-Stop Efficiency Shop small business lighting program.  

Mark has designed interior and exterior lighting systems for a wide range of applications including residential, municipal, retail, healthcare and both conventional and nuclear power plants. Over several decades he has provided lighting education while working, presenting and teaching across four continents. He serves on over twenty lighting related committees including ASHRAE, ANSI, IEEE, ISO and the IES. As a part of his job he also monitors over 100 lighting related organizations.

Mark is a columnist for Lighting Design and Application Magazine (LD+A) writing on the changes in our industry and he hosts a podcast on lighting trends and technologies. Mark has served on multiple boards and is currently on several executive committees advising various organizations. Mark ran the educational centers for both Cooper and Hubbell Lighting and was the Director of Government & Industry Relations for OSRAM SYLVANIA before joining the Illuminating Engineering Society and he serves as lighting consultant to the IES today through his company, Augmented Illumination.

Bob Preston is Lighting & Energy Specialist with Capital Electric - A Sonepar Company. Bob is Lighting Certified by the NCQLP and is a member of the IES. He has been with Capital Electric for 32 years. Bob supports energy efficient lighting activities, coordinates utility incentive programs for the sales team and their customers, and has, for many years, spearheaded lighting education events across all of Capital Electric’s footprint. 

Randy Reid is the CEO of LumEfficient, a company focused on heavy industrial Lighting. He is also the Editor and Publisher of the EdisonReport.  In addition, Reid recently became the Executive Director of the National Lighting Bureau.  Reid is a past president of the Illuminating Engineering Society and 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.

Megan Carroll is a Senior Specification Sales Manager with New York Digital, Acuity Brands with over thirty years experience in various sales & marketing roles. Most recently, she served as the Chairwoman for the 2018/2109 IES Annual Conference. She also chaired the IES Illumination Awards from 2014-2016 and has served on the Medals Committee, the IA committee & the annual conference steering committee. Megan is a member of the IESNYC.

Diane Borys is an award-winning Architectural Lighting Designer and founder of Noctiluca Lighting Design and Consulting, based in San Diego, CA. With a background in Architectural Engineering, Diane specializes in balancing the Art and Science of Lighting Design for commercial and hospitality projects. Since 2006, Diane has been passionate about ensuring each project is a creative, coordinated visual experience that is cost effective, energy-efficient, meets owner goals and celebrates the Architectural environment.