THOMAS HARDENBURGER JOINS LTI

January, 2004

BALDWIN PARK, CA - Thomas Hargerburger has joined Lighting Technologies International as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. He has fifteen years of marketing and general management experience in the semiconductor and specialty chemical industry.

Prior to LTI, Tom was Senior VP and COO of Accretech USA, a major supplier of semiconductor capital equipment, where he was responsible for the development and commercialization of new semiconductor wafer processing equipment. He has also held senior-level marketing and sales management positions with UniSil and Mitsubishi Silicon (producers of advanced semiconductor materials) and marketing and operations positions with Air Liquide, the world’s largest industrial gas supplier.

Tom has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Kansas State University and an MBA from Stanford University. He served four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion Program.

Please welcome Tom to Lighting Technologies International.