Fla. lighting company moving executive team to R.I.

LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP is moving its executive team to Rhode Island.
LIGHTING SCIENCE GROUP is moving its executive team to Rhode Island.

(Updated 3:36 p.m. and 9:33 a.m.)
PROVIDENCE – A Florida company is moving its executive team of 10 employees to Rhode Island.
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo, along with Edward Bednarcik, CEO of Lighting Science Group Corp., will hold a press conference Monday about the company’s plan to move to West Warwick.
Lighting Science Group, a public company based in Melbourne, Fla., has 81 employees, according to its company snapshot on Bloomberg Business. It specializes in LED lighting solutions.
By 2017, it expects to have 50 employees in Rhode Island, at 1350 Division Road, suite 102, West Warwick, a company spokesperson said.
According to a news release about the Monday event, Lighting Science Group held “an exhaustive search for a new home” that offered “access to a highly educated, tech-savvy work force with close proximity to large regional markets.”
Raimondo and Lighting Science Group Chief Technology Officer Fred Maxik will discuss the company’s LED technology and how it can benefit Rhode Island from an energy and innovation standpoint.
The event begins at 12:15 p.m. at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum on Benefit Street. Products will be shown, and at 12:30 p.m., speakers will begin.
The release said that Maxik and Bednarcik look to “capitalize on the progressive environment for technology companies … network of passionate business leaders, world class institutions and supportive state politicians to assist in growing a dynamic company.”

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