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GEORGE KHALAF
Michael D’Amour, the new president and CEO of Newark energy-efficient lighting management firm LUMEnergi, hopes to revolutionize lighting efficiency and open new markets in commercial and industrial sectors.
"Our goal is to dramatically improve energy efficiency," he said. "The easiest way to be green is with lighting.(Our lighting control systems) pay for themselves in two to three years without subsidies and in nine months with subsidies."
LUMEnergi’s features include automatic dimming, software-power source communication, personal and desktop control, power scheduling and occupancy sensors. The company can install its own technology or retrofit existing systems to provide savings, lower energy consumption and decrease carbon footprints.
"We can reduce lighting energy by 50 to 70 percent," he said. "We feel we do something immediately measurable."
LUMEnergi was founded in 2008 with initial funding from Noventi Ventures and Low Carbot Accelerator Ltd. As CEO, D’Amour oversees 35 employees and hopes to increase that number by 50 percent by years end.
"I joined a great team. I felt I could focus on the energy and technology that was already here, building market partnerships and presence," he said. "We have installations currently going into major industrial and government buildings."
The Los Altos Hills resident was formerly president of D’Amour and Associates, where he led market and product research for the cleantech industry. D’Amour founded D’Amour and Associates in 1977, and between his entrepreneurial ventures has acted in a consulting capacity with the firm ever since.
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LIGHT BRIGHT: Michael D’Amour, new president and CEO of LUMEnergi, plans to increase the company's staff by 50 percent.
He was previously COO of DRC Computer Corp. from 2006 to 2008, CEO of Veridicom International, Inc. from 1998 to 2001, co-founder of Quickturn -- funded by entrepreneur Vinod Khosla and Menlo Park-base Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers -- from 1987 to 1999 and vice president of research and development for electronic design automation pioneer Daisy Systems from 1981 to 1987.
A graduate of the Naval Air Technical Training Center, D’Amour is married and has one son and one daughter.
GEORGE KHALAF writes for the San Francisco Business Times, a sister publication.
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