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Eurofase Taps Andy Burns for New Role

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AndyBurns 400x275May 17, 2022

Lighting industry veteran Andy Burns, LC, CLC, CLMR, has joined Toronto-based Eurofase/Fase1 Lighting as Director/Business Development-USA.

Burns has amassed decades of knowledge in both the residential and the commercial sector of the lighting industry, first as an independent sales representative with his own agency in Oklahoma and later with larger commercial lighting rep firms. Burns also has first-hand experience on the manufacturing side as VP/Sales & Marketing for Elite Lighting Corp., headquartered in Los Angeles.

Burns has been honored as a Pillar of Industry by the American Lighting Association and an Illuminating Engineering Society Award of Merit.

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