Bridgelux Appoints Dr. Yi-Qun Li as Chief Executive Officer

Bridgelux announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Yi-Qun Li as its Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.  Dr. Li replaces Tim Lester who recently departed Bridgelux to pursue other opportunities.   

Prior to being appointed as the CEO of Bridgelux, Dr. Li was the co-founder of Intematix Corporation, and served as its CEO and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Over the past 20 years he led multiple innovation initiatives in phosphor technology including silicates, lutetium garnets, coated narrow-band red and narrow-band green sulphates.

In recent years, two of Dr. Li’s passion projects, F90 and Thrive, have had the most wide-ranging commercial impact on the industry. F90, which uses the novel KSF phosphors, has facilitated the confluence of high efficacy performance and high color rendering in the same package.  Thrive, which uses multiple broad-blue chips in the same package, creates full-spectrum emission that matches the spectrum of natural light. Under his guidance, Bridgelux has expanded both programs into multiple SMD and COB products for both commercial and residential applications.