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Amer Maleh is the VP of Sales-Strategic Accounts at Delta Light Group North America and has been in the architectural lighting industry for over 17 years. 

He started his career as a lighting designer at L’Observatoire International working with award winning architectural firms such as Ghery Partners, Atelier Jean Nouvel, and Steven Holl. 

In 2010 Maleh opened his own lighting firm in New York City to work on multiple project typologies with a focus on high-end residences. 

He has since held many leadership roles in the industry including design, manufacturing, sales, sourcing, and distribution. 

From 2019 to 2021 Maleh was the Global Director of Sourcing and Supply Chain of Lighting at WeWork before returning to manufacturing and design, joining Delta Light in 2022.

With a background in Electrical Engineering, Maleh holds master’s degrees in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and Architectural Lighting from Parsons the New School of Design.

Maleh served as a lighting guest critic at Pratt, New York School of Interior Design, and Parsons, where he also taught as a part time lecturer in the MFA program from 2010 to 2015.

Maleh has been awarded an IES Illumination Award and has been featured in both LD+A and Architectural Lighting magazines.

Janet Lennox Moyer, IALD, internationally known lighting designer has received many design awards, judged lighting competitions, been published extensively & taught all over the world since serving as teaching assistant for her undergraduate lighting course at MSU. Jan taught landscape lighting at UC Berkeley and Rutgers University in the Landscape Continuing Education departments during the 1980-1990s. 

Ms. Moyer’s practice included interior, commercial/residential lighting. Her emphasis shifted to landscape lighting in 1983. Projects include landscape lighting of Levi Plaza,SF, the Detroit Civic Center, Pierce Transit, Tacoma, Washington incorporating a 200 foot long ‘Waterwall’; interior lighting at the Skywalker Ranch, a palace in Abu Dhabi; interior/landscape lighting at the Far Niente Winery, a resort in Safaga, Egypt; several areas of the Chicago Botanic Gardens & the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin, a Palm Aboretum and Conservatory in Northern California, Special residential properties across the nation.

Jan is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, originally published in 1992 by John Wiley and Sons, now in it’s 3rd edition with expanded information on documentation, garden evolution an extensive drawing appendix, and how the disruptive technology LED changes landscape lighting and how to plan for the future.

Jan’s new book The Art of Landscape Lighting, released April 8, 2022 with over 800 color photos/detail drawings explains Jans’ thinking/planning to respond to project needs and challenges covering her 45 years of design. 

In 2010, Jan Founded the International Landscape Lighting Institute, an educational 501(c)(3) Public Charity that holds 5-day, 5-night intensive courses. Each day includes morning lectures, afternoon workshop sessions, and evening mockups. ILLI teams have designed and installed five permanent landscape lighting exhibition in the USA and Tokamachi, Japan. 

Jan is committed to sharing her knowledge and striving to raise the bar for the landscape lighting industry. 

Peter has over 20 years of experience in both architectural and theatrical lighting design. His company, Conceptual Lighting, LLC, is a diverse architectural lighting design firm that develops lighting systems for a variety of commercial and residential spaces. Houses of worship, restaurants, educational facilities, health care facilities, and exterior landscape lighting are all common project types handled by the firm. The small size of the firm assures attention to detail and a personal commitment to each project. Peter Romaniello’s theatrical lighting design background allows for an approach to lighting that is both aesthetically pleasing and technologically correct.

David Warfel is founding designer of Light Can Help You, author, and educator at the crossroads of architecture, light, and integration.  He is former head of the graduate lighting design program at the University of Illinois.

David’s company, online at lightcanhelpyou.com, built the revolutionary Signature Custom Lighting Design service to be an affordable, easy, and highly professional option for lighting design.  The LCHY team partners with custom integrators nationwide to help them grow in lighting fixture sales and navigate the complex and rapidly changing world of light. 

His design credits range from projects at Carnegie Hall and Las Vegas’ Luxor to Chicago’s Hyde Park Arts Center and multiple themed spaces for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.   His work and writing have been featured in Technology Design, Fine Homebuilding, Lighting Australia, and multiple times on Houzz.com.  David blogs at languageoflight.blog and lives in Madison, WI.