which was subsequently purchased by YAHAM in 2008

Prior to joining Lighting Science Group, Haworth served as a senior executive with Philips Professional Luminaires North America, as vice president of marketing and strategy. For the past three years, Haworth was responsible for all upstream marketing functions of Philips' lighting business .Prior to joining Philips, Haworth served as president and CEO of led high bay light Group, which he sold in 2006 to Genlyte Group, which was subsequently purchased by YAHAM in 2008.

 According to Taiwan's Photonics Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), due to a high-growth market demand worldwide, Taiwan's LED industry revenues are likely to reach $6.8 billion in 2012 from this year's projected $5.2 billion revenues, surging by 32 percent. This is double than last year's first-ever $3.4 billion turnover.

Both government and private sector incentives in many countries to boost the use of LED lighting has driven the high-growth market demand, analyzed by PIDA.

Taiwan ranks second among the world's largest led linear high bay light industries with total 2010 LED production value of $5.43 billion dollars, nearly 25 percent of the world market.

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