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Posted: August 15, 2023
Horner joins AMA Group as principal of ALD Lighting
Manhattan, NY AMA Group, an industry leading engineering firm dedicated to providing best-in-class design and implementation for a variety of project types nationwide, announced that Stephen Horner has joined the team as principal of the East Coast Lighting Design Business Unit, which is branded as ALD Lighting (a wholly owned division of AMA Group). Horner comes to ALD Lighting with over 20 years of experience in all-things-lighting thus his experience and talent will play a critical role in the growth of east coast lighting design in collaboration with our current west coast lighting design team.
A graduate of the Lighting Design Master of Arts programme at the Parsons’ School of Design (2002), Horner moved to the U.S. in 1996 where he began his career in the lighting industry as a founding partner at Exterieur Vert Lighting, a fabricator of specification grade urban luminaires. As a lighting designer Horner has since worked on award winning projects with internationally prestigious firms L’Observatoire International, Tillett Lighting Design, Leni Schwendinger’s Light Projects, One Lux Studio and MRD. Horner has proven success at steering projects from ideation, through documentation, budgeting, construction, and completion. Skilled with confident management capability, Horner is a capable and trustworthy professional, team leader with business development, operations and executive instinct.
“We are thrilled to welcome Stephen in New York City and have high expectations for him to expand the ALD Lighting brand on the eastern seaboard as well as throughout the firm,” said Arthur Metzler, CEO, AMA Group. “His welcoming style along with his extensive experience in leadership positions of multiple facets of the industry in such internationally prestigious firms will make him a great asset to AMA Group and ALD Lighting. I am very confident that Stephen will be integral to our continued growth and diversification."
Horner’s varied project experiences include hospitality, retail, commercial, private residences, urban landscapes and civic master planning.
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