Dr. Simon Begemann
LED Business Development Consultant, Simon Begemann
Member of the Technology Council
Council Member Biography
Simon Begemann is an Independent LED-Lighting business development consultant and one of the pioneers of Solid State Lighting. He is also Lighting Technology Expert at Cerflex International. He was the Chief Advisor for the European Lighting Research Center at Eindhoven University, where he was Lighting Professor. He was Senior Vice President at Philips Lighting, responsible for developing new business opportunities for existing technologies in new applications and new technologies. He is the Founder of LumiLeds Lighting, a joint venture between Agilent and Philips Lighting. He specializes in LED based Solid State Lighting. Prior, he was the Founder of Ph. Lighting Electronics. He is also the Founder of the Euro Lamp Co's lobby, EU Brussels. He was also member of the Directors Council of The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York. He has expertise in legislation concerning lighting, and the Lamp Industry's efforts for replacement of ineffic (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2002 - Unspecified
- LED Business Development Consultant, Simon Begemann
- 1999 - 2001
- Founder, LUMILEDS LIGHTING U.S., LLC
- 1984 - 2008
- Professor, Technical University Eindhoven
- 1977 - 2001
- Senior Vice President, KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
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LED's will be disruptive to the Lighting Industry.
January 22, 2009
Lighting -- Eye Popping Future | www.forbes.com
LED technology will create the same disruptive revolution in the Lighting Industry as Digital Imaging did in the Chemical Imaging Industry . 1. LED technology will enable new possibilities for Lighting design in existing applications and open up new applications where the sky will be the limit. 2. It will fundamentally change todays Lighting Industry which consists of a few global lamp manufacturers and thousands of local and regional fixture manufacturers . 3. The market will change from a lampreplacement business into a system replacement business , resulting in a declining ( conventional) lamp business and a booming LED- module and systems business. Totally new players will enter the business ,challenging the existing players of which a few have positioned themselves well to emerge as successful future players .
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| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 16437 |
| Technology Council Members in Member Programs | 8640 |
| Experts in the Leisure & Lodging Council | 4887 |
| Experts in the Automotive Council | 3422 |
| GLG Leaders in the Technology Council | 187 |
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