CIMCON Lighting Appoints Rick Schuett as Vice President of Sales for the Americas

Rick Schuett

September 28, 2017

CIMCON Lighting, Inc. has announced the appointment of industry veteran, Rick Schuett as Vice President of Sales for the Americas.

Rick comes to CIMCON with 25+ years’ experience in the lighting and building controls, IoT and SaaS industries, where he has held executive leadership roles. He was most recently SVP Worldwide Sales at the Echelon Corporation where he was responsible for driving the Company’s go-to-market strategies in both the lighting and LonWorks-based embedded systems business. Prior to Echelon, Schuett held key senior management roles at a variety of lighting and building controls companies including Lutron Electronics, Autani and Encelium. 

“We are pleased to have Rick join CIMCON and drive the acceleration of our Americas’ business,” said Anil Agrawal, CEO, CIMCON Lighting. “His knowledge of the lighting controls space combined with his passion for enabling connected Smart Cities is a perfect fit with CIMCON’s accelerated push to grow the market for connected Smart Cities.  Rick will be instrumental in bringing our new sensor platform that enables smart parking, traffic counting, noise and pollution data collection, waste management optimization, and more to market.”

www.cimconlighting.com.

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