James is a passionate and accomplished business leader with more than 28 years of lighting and electrical industry experience. He previously served as Partner and Director of Sales for a sales and market development company, with an exclusive agreement with a leading LED sports lighting manufacturer. This company was responsible for all professional sports lighting in the U.S. and all sports lighting vertical markets for ten states in the U.S.
Following college and six years of worldwide service in the United States Marine Corps, James began his lighting career as a Rep Agency principal in Las Vegas. While working for some of the top companies in the world, he has held a variety of positions with increasing responsibilities, including District Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Business General Manager, and VP of Sales and Marketing. He has had the good fortune to provide solutions for professional stadiums, arenas, ballparks, and iconic public projects like bridges and monuments. In addition, James is known for helping lead these companies in their transition from traditional transactional selling to the new world of developing and selling solutions, systems, and services.
He is an active member of the IESNA and is a longtime associate member of the IESNA Sports Lighting Committee, serving on the Broadcast subcommittee.
Ken is a highly successful and results-driven executive with over 25 years’ experience in management, competitive market expansion, and sales leadership. He is well-versed in Energy Management and Sustainability across most modalities and has a proven track record of executing construction and rehabilitation projects to reflect corporate energy and sustainability goals. Ken has expertise in energy-efficient LED sports lighting applications for both upgrade and new construction, helping customers realize energy reductions of 50% and more.
Ken has an extensive background working with national utility programs, distributors and sports lighting, bringing with him a vast expertise related to energy programs and sports lighting technology. During his most recent leadership role with a major sports lighting company, Ken had a notable impact on LED Sports Lighting sales. He played a significant role in expanding company sales year over year for Professional, NCAA, High School, and Municipal Sports venues. In addition, Ken’s relentless dedication to customer satisfaction is consistent with the Mission and Values of Midstream Lighting.
Gail McNulty brings a wealth of business, marketing, and sports lighting experience to her role at Midstream Lighting. After a successful tenure at Musco Lighting for their legacy technology, Gail led growth initiatives for the Ephesus brand, introducing new LED technology to expanded markets and sales regions across the US. When NGU Sports Lighting evolved as a sales and marketing arm of Ephesus, Gail developed marketing and media strategies to launch their successful growth into additional markets. In addition, she established a path for successful partner relationships to assist the growth of global brands and ongoing satisfaction for sports lighting customers.
Gail has continued to engage her passion and consulted with companies to assist their expansion, including developing business plans and fostering company cultures which retain small company values while developing corporate efficiencies and procedural standards for internal and external customer satisfaction. She is ready to focus on guaranteeing public and private leaders have an opportunity to choose an energy-efficient, affordable, high-performance Sports Lighting System for the benefit of their community, safety and performance of athletes, enjoyment for fans, and satisfaction of stakeholders through their engagement with Midstream Lighting.
Eliza brings a diverse background in education, lighting distribution and project management to Midstream Lighting. A Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Tampa, she began her career in education as a public-school teacher in Florida before joining one of the nation’s largest design-build electrical contractors. There she applied her skills to managing large scale lighting projects with multiple stakeholders. Eliza helped to drive project management and estimating strategy in her department and was instrumental in planning and successfully executing complex lighting projects.
Eliza is a gifted educator and brings that approach to leading our customer service, quotations and project management group at Midstream Lighting.
Before joining us, Todd worked in the aviation industry – supporting airports with their ever-evolving security and airside lighting needs. Todd brings over three decades worth of experience and expertise in engineering, six sigma quality, programme management, operations and service to Midstream.
He coordinates all sales and delivery activities across the North American aviation market for us. And he oversees Midstream’s in-house lighting design and manufacturing teams to ensure that quality and schedule are met.
In his previous role, Todd was the Global General Manager, Honeywell Airport Business.
Away from the world of lighting, Todd is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt, holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration (MBA), with a focus on Government Contracting. Throughout his career, Todd has been active in AAAE, ACI-NA, and IESALC.
Jonathan has been involved in horticultural lighting since high power LEDs first began to disrupt the greenhouse grow lighting market, replacing traditional HPS lamp technology. At Plessey Semiconductors, a leading UK LED manufacturer, Jonathan successfully built a new Horticultural Lighting Division and was responsible for development of the Hyperion LED grow light brand.
Hyperion LEDs are now installed in a wide variety of greenhouses around the world, from University research facilities to huge commercial greenhouses that produce vegetables, fruit, flowers and medicinal cannabis, 24/7, 12 months of the year.
In 2020, Jonathan led a buy-out from Plessey to establish Hyperion Grow Lights as an independent business with Jonathan as MD and main shareholder. Following further growth and development of the Hyperion brand, the business was acquired by us in 2022 to form the Horticultural Division of Midstream, celebrated with the launch of our new, industry leading Hyperion Pro Series of LED grow lights.
Ken is a leading Lighting Industry Executive – From 1998 until he retired in 2013, Mr. Cornett served as Director of Hubbell Lighting, Inc. a leading manufacturer of sports lighting fixtures and controls. Additionally, he held leadership and management positions at Sylvania, Lightolier and Thomas & Betts. Mr. Cornett began his career in the lighting manufacturing industry in 1982. Mr. Cornett holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
Kimberly brings a wealth of experience as a Senior Brand, Communications and Marketing Executive. She’s well versed in cultivating world-class scalable brands, developing marketing and digital strategies and fostering, inspiring and galvanising teams. Kimberly has helped countless brands in the luxury hospitality, FMCG, technology, travel, and sports industries innovate and transform what they offer – with significant commercial success.
Previous clients include Reebok, PepsiCo, Sotheby’s Real Estate, NewsCorp, AEG Sports & Entertainment, Horseshoe Bay Luxury Golf, Spa & Resort, and Prezzo Restaurant Group. As a Midstream Senior Advisor, Kimberly plays a crucial role in providing strategic insights, building brand equity and developing innovative strategies that position our clients, and ourselves, for continued success.
