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Zach Gibler

Chief Executive Officer

Zachary S. Gibler was responsible for overseeing sales, marketing and product development at the company. Mr. Gibler previously served as a Vice President at lighting fixture leader Acuity Brands Company. Mr. Gibler began his career at Acuity in 1994 and has held a variety of positions from sales management and marketing to technology development. Mr. Gibler is a lighting industry veteran with more than 13 years of experience.

Lynn Vera

Chief Human Resources Officer

Lynn Vera is chief human resources officer of Lighting Science Group. She is responsible for managing the Company's staffing, organizational development, compensation, employee relations, performance management, benefits, HRIS and payroll. Previously, she developed the human resources function for three companies under the Dimensional Associates digital music portfolio. Ms. Vera has served as the Director of Talent Acquisition at McKesson, where she was responsible for recruiting for the largest division of this Fortune 20 Company. Ms. Vera has also held senior positions at Phoenix Pop Productions and Union Bank of California.

Kathryn Reynolds

Senior Vice President, Strategy and Finance

Ms. Reynolds serves as Senior Vice President, Strategy and Finance, of Lighting Science Group Corporation. Recently, Ms. Reynolds has worked as a management consultant through her own company, Reynolds Wallbrink LLC, specializing in providing strategic restructuring and capital raising for small and mid-sized, privately-held companies. Her most recent engagement was with IX Energy where she acted as interim CFO in order to raise capital for general expansion. Ms. Reynolds has been responsible for strategic restructuring and capital raising for several well-known companies including SecuriMetrics, the leading biometrics company specializing in iris recognition security systems; Coldwell Banker Europe, International Travel & Tour, Brasilinvest Energy Ltd, Overture Financial Services and Han Feng Designs.

Prior to 2002, Ms. Reynolds spent over 13 years of her career working for Merrill Lynch; eight years in international investment banking, followed by five years in corporate strategy for private banking and wealth management. From 2000 to 2002, she was responsible for creating, launching and leading Merrill Lynch's Private Wealth Services Group focused on premier servicing of Merrill Lynch's family office clients outside the U.S. which managed more than $35 billion in assets. Throughout her career at Merrill Lynch, Ms. Reynolds participated in many leadership forums within the company and helped create the first women's leadership forum in 1999.

John Mitchell

General Counsel

John Mitchell is the General Counsel of Lighting Science Group and is responsible for overseeing all of the company's legal matters. Mr. Mitchell has extensive experience in the lighting industry, having previously served as the chief intellectual property counsel at international lighting company Osram Sylvania. Mr. Mitchell has also held positions at the law firms Hutchins, Wheeler & Dittmar and Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox and he served as counsel for Reebok International Ltd.