About SentryLight, Inc.
SentryLight formed around the 9/11 tragedy, when Brian Corbett, a volunteer Fire Chief with the Cecil County Fire Department in Maryland, and Adam Lilien, Senior Vice President of Marketing at MBNA, formed a vision: to address the problems with the field of emergency lighting.
After years of development, the partners launched the company at LightFair 2005 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. With final Underwriter's Laboratories (UL) approval in mid-2008, SentryLight began calling on architects, engineers and lighting specifiers.
With great interest from the market place, the first orders were for some office buildings, restaurants and residences. What was apparent was that the field was missing this product's features: affordable, concealed, and reliable emergency lights that are designed to be installed in proximity to the floor... where International Buildings Codes require the illumination.
With installations in 14 countries and counting, SentryLight is committed to changing the way we think about emergency lighting.
Meet the SentryLight Executive Team
Brian Corbett
President & CEO
Mr. Corbett co-invented SentryLight in 2001, with the inspiration: If emergency lighting can be invisible until it's needed, designers and architects will be able to place fixtures where they will enhance safety while still maintaining the integrity of the interior design. As a Chief of a Maryland Fire Department, Brian has experienced first hand the dangers of searching for victims in dark, smoke filled residential and commercial buildings. He also noticed the lack of effect standard emergency lighting had in these situations. Utilizing his current design and future technologies, Brian hopes to save lives by improving the quality and placement of emergency egress lighting in commercial structures as well as offering homeowners the same benefits with his SentryLightTM residential systems.
Adam Lilien
Chief Marketing Officer
 Leading SentryLight’s international growth strategy, Mr. Lilien relies on his recent lead generation consulting in over 11 countries for one of the world's lagest manufacturers of electronics, along with his tenure at MBNA America Bank. As a Senior Vice President in eBusiness, he led direct marketing strategies for over 5,400 affinity partner relationships worldwide including eBay, Merrill Lynch, Virgin, National Football League, Fidelity, NASCAR, Major League Baseball, Manchester United, National Hockey League, and Amnesty International among others. Prior to that, as a Vice President at AT&T, he was responsible for building effective direct marketing strategies across multiple channels. Prior to AT&T, Adam owned and operated Images Design Group, a boutique agency serving marketing communications needs of Fortune 500 clients. For his client, the Port Authority of NY & NJ, he designed the World Trade Center Museum. He taught design and technology at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts, and has lectured at numerous conferences. Adam received his B.P.S in Architecture at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, and attended Pratt Institute for his Masters in Communication Design.
Frank W. Corbett
International Sales Director
With over 32 years of sales experience, Frank Corbett is building SentryLight's sales force in both the commercial and residential U.S. and International markets. Most recently with Seoul Semiconductor, Frank was responsible for establishing a U.S. sales organization identifying qualified regional sales rep agencies and managing major design wins for their High-Brightness LED lighting division. In a previous postition as Senior Vice President of Sales for Kawasaki LSI USA, Mr. Corbett led the company's sales growth from $7 to $101 million over an eight-year period by adding 21 new customers including Cisco, Hewlett Packard, and Altek, and in one year, Mr. Corbett closed deals with Alcatel, Scanlogic and Tel Labs to grow sales from $200k to $31MM. Frank attended Northeastern University for Business Administration.
SentryLight Advisor
John Streeten: CEO, New World Apps provides professional managed hosting and outsourced IT services that deliver the highest performance, highest availablity, and most secure IT solutions available. Prior to New World Apps, Mr.Streeten was Vice President, Finance for USinternetworking, where he led the Mergers & Acquisitions, Treasury and Investor Relations functions. While at USi, John led the raising of over $88 million in private debt for USi pre-IPO. In total, USi raised over $320 million in private equity, private debt and an initial public equity offering during his tenure at the firm. Prior to USi, John worked at IBM Corporation in IBM's Acquisition Finance organization, leading the evaluation and selection of strategic companies for IBM's acquisition plans. In addition to John's finance experience, he spent eleven years as a Sales Manager leading high performance sales teams for IBM Corporation's Lotus Division and Lockheed Martin's CalComp Division, and spent eight years in Sales and Product Marketing. John received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, with a concentration in Finance, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Dartmouth College.
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