Mark Roush is principal of Experience Light – a 20-year consultancy in marketing and education focused on the customer experience. He has 47 years in lighting design, technology, application, and education with companies including Signify (Philips), Acuity, Holophane, Howard Brandston Lighting Design, LumiLEDs, Dialight, and Lucifer Lighting where he has held various leadership, marketing, application engineering, design, and business development roles.
He has had direct responsibility for the operation of the Light & Vision Center for Holophane (1983), the genesis and success of both the Lighting Application Center for Philips (1988) and Center for Light & Space at Acuity NYC (2003) while contributing to the design of the Lighting Classroom for PSE&G’s Pacific Energy Center (1991). In the Signify Lighting Application Center alone, Mark was lead faculty and taught the Fundamentals of Light and Color to over 50,000 attendees.
Mark has been a faculty member of two universities teaching lighting in architecture and interior design, contributed to numerous articles in LD+A and other lighting industry Magazines, and has served numerous IES Technical and Service Committees as member, secretary, and chair. Mark is Past President of the IES and the IALD Education Trust, IES Fellow and Distinguished Service Award Recipient, Lighting Certified, and facilitator of the LIGHTFAIR Innovation Awards for the past 25 years.
He has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois specializing in Illumination Studies, and is well known as an industry ambassador, public speaker, facilitator, and panel moderator for numerous industry events. He currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.