Dr Liam Kelly, CEO & Founder, Nualight
Dr Liam Kelly founded Nualight, a pioneer in the provision of LED lighting for refrigerated displays in the food retail industry, in 2004.
| Dr Liam Kelly, CEO & Founder, Nualight | |
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| Date | Wednesday 17 November 2011 |
| Venue | NovaUCD |
His previous commercial LED activities include the establishment of CorkOpt Ltd. in 1994, to develop and manufacture LED-based luminaires for the machine vision industry. CorkOpt was acquired by USA-based StockerYale Inc. in 2000 and Liam continued as Managing Director until 2003. He was also a founder-director of Millimetre Wave Technology Ltd., and of Farran Technology Ltd, an imaging and communications systems manufacturer, until its acquisition by the Smiths Group plc in 2005.
Prior to his commercial interests, Liam spent twenty years in various senior roles in University College Cork including Associate Professor of Microelectronics. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of California and is a founding director of Optronics-Ireland and the Irish National Microelectronic Research Centre.
Nualight, which can yield energy savings of up to 70% for its clients, recently won the overall Judges Award at the 2011 Cleantech Connect Awards.
The company overcame some of the hottest and fastest-growing green-tech firms in Europe to win the award.
