Transcend Lighting

Brian's History and How Transcend Got Started

Brian has a degree in Optical Engineering and spent his entire career working with LEDs or LED lighting. Originally Brian worked for an LED manufacturer that built LEDs for display, e.g. rear projection television or business projectors. He then moved into general lighting work for some large lighting companies, both in management and application engineering roles, where he designed a number of different lighting products ranging from streetlights to office lighting, and managed teams of engineers doing electrical engineering, thermal engineering, mechanical engineering, and also quality control.

Brian's family has a small farm with chickens and sheep and fruits and vegetables. They used grow lights to start their seedlings and get a jump on the season before transplanting outside. Brian built the first iteration of Transcend LED lights to help his family grow more efficiently. Word got around the small farming community and a bunch of local farmers requested the lights. Brian then realized there was a big opportunity for a well-designed, advanced lighting system specifically for agriculture.