Signify installs its own exec as permanent boss at Fluence

Signify has now permanently installed its own homegrown executive as boss at its U.S. horticultural lighting group Fluence, naming a 29-year company veteran as CEO of the Austin, Texas company.

Michiel van Dam had been serving as co-CEO while the company searched for a permanent replacement for David Cohen who left in March. The search led to the internal tapping of van Dam has now taken the job full time on his own.

Van Dam had been based in Holland as head of Signify’s agricultural lighting business. Signify runs two different horticultural lighting entities: Fluence, which uses the Fluence brand; and the Eindhoven, Holland–based Signify Horticulture LED Solutions group, which sells under the Philips brand.

“He and his family have permanently relocated to the Austin area and he’s been spending time traveling to meet with Fluence’s customers and partners,” a Fluence spokesperson told LEDs Magazine.

Van Dam had been sharing CEO duties with Signify’s Jhawn Newman, who is a Signify Americas vice president of systems, and who also led the team overseeing the merger with Fluence, which Signify acquired in May 2022. He continues as “post-merger integration leader,” a Signify spokesperson told LEDs.

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