LEDs Magazine 40 Under 40 Profile: Michael Hennessy
Michael Hennessy founded Wavelength Lighting in 2013 and set out to drastically change the efficiency of New York City’s buildings. Knowing that energy used by lighting makes up 20% of a building’s carbon footprint, he realized that small and effective changes to lighting systems could reduce that energy consumption by almost 90%.
The value proposition that Hennessy relentlessly pursues is front and center on the firm’s web homepage — massive ROI. Hennessy and his team have worked in the Big Apple with large commercial tenants including some of the city’s biggest financial firms, the Barclays Center Arena, and two major universities. He stresses not only efficient LED lighting but reasoned deployment of controls to compound the ROI, as he outlined in a contributed column about a year ago.
A colleague has described the evolution of Wavelength as in six years going from essentially a “door-to-door sales operation to a position as a top New York-based impactful and goal-oriented energy-efficient lighting company.”
Prior to founding his firm, Hennessy spent a decade as an analyst and investor in clean energy finance.
Carrie Meadows | Editor-in-Chief, LEDs Magazine
Carrie Meadows has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing and media industry. She worked with the PennWell Technology Group for more than 17 years, having been part of the editorial staff at Solid State Technology, Microlithography World, Lightwave, Portable Design, CleanRooms, Laser Focus World, and Vision Systems Design before the group was acquired by current parent company Endeavor Business Media.
Meadows has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards, and has volunteered as a judge on several B2B editorial awards committees. She received a BA in English literature from Saint Anselm College, and earned thesis honors in the college's Geisel Library. Without the patience to sit down and write a book of her own, she has gladly undertaken the role of editor for the writings of friends and family.
Meadows enjoys living in the beautiful but sometimes unpredictable four seasons of the New England region, volunteering with an animal shelter, reading (of course), and walking with friends and extended "dog family" in her spare time.
Maury Wright | Editor in Chief
Maury Wright is an electronics engineer turned technology journalist, who has focused specifically on the LED & Lighting industry for the past decade. Wright first wrote for LEDs Magazine as a contractor in 2010, and took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2012. He has broad experience in technology areas ranging from microprocessors to digital media to wireless networks that he gained over 30 years in the trade press. Wright has experience running global editorial operations, such as during his tenure as worldwide editorial director of EDN Magazine, and has been instrumental in launching publication websites going back to the earliest days of the Internet. Wright has won numerous industry awards, including multiple ASBPE national awards for B2B journalism excellence, and has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Auburn University.
