Scott Roos is the Vice President, Sustainability and Business Optimization, Specialty Lighting Group at Acuity Brands. 2024 marks Scott’s 46th year in lighting, a career that has encompassed product design, marketing, product management, strategic planning and lighting education. Products Scott has worked on have earned numerous patents and awards including the Industrial Design Excellence Award and LightFair’s Most Innovative Product and Technical Innovation awards. He has also developed the concepts and lighting design for numerous facilities, showrooms and tradeshow booths including the acclaimed Des Plaines, IL Center for Light and Space.
Scott has always been involved in pushing the envelope for critical topics of the time, from developing the first miniature low voltage accent lighting fixtures and systems in the 80’s to helping advance CFL general illumination downlighting in the 90s to driving the development of the first commercially viable LED track and recessed solutions in the early 2000s. Most recently Scott has been a grain of sand in the oyster to encourage us to embrace wellness and sustainability as fundamental elements of good lighting and has been a regular speaker on both topics at national and regional industry events.
He is currently serving as a member of the IES Sustainability Committee, which is updating the LP10 Sustainable Lighting Practice document, the NEMA Lighting Sustainability Task Force, the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) addressing the Environmental Aspects of Lighting and with Smart EPD to develop Product Category Rules for conducting luminaire Life Cycle Assessments in North America.
Scott has a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois and an MBA from De Paul University.