Bill Knowles is the owner of Northern Outdoor Lighting, based in the Boston, Massachusetts area. He has been involved with outdoor lighting since 1994. He serves on the board of the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals and is a member of the Awards Committee. Knowles has been a member of AOLP for 15 years as well as a Certified Low Voltage Lighting Technician since the first exam was offered. He has built Northern Outdoor Lighting into one of the preeminent outdoor lighting design and installation firms in New England. Northern Outdoor Lighting has designed and installed numerous award-winning projects throughout the region.

Greg Matthews comes from a diverse background including being a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, professional photographer and A/V systems integration business owner. He has taken his knowledge and love for horticulture and combined it with his past experiences to refocus on outdoor lighting and audio installations and design. As the owner of Luxury Illumination, he strives to produce some of the best and most unique outdoor lighting installations available. Based out of West Palm Beach, Florida, with an additional location in Denver, Luxury Illumination has worked on projects across the nation. It is one of the few companies to be called a brand ambassador for the leading outdoor manufacturer Coastal Source. Matthews holds his CLVLT and is currently a teaching mentor and graduate of the International Landscape Lighting Institute.

Joel Mayor is the owner/designer at Texas Outdoor Lighting based in Austin, Texas. He and his wife, Beth, started this company in 2007 and solely focus on LED landscape and architectural lighting throughout the great state of Texas. You can see projects from Texas Outdoor Lighting at historic sites like The Alamo, big game ranches in Western and Southern Texas, large lakehouse estates along Lake Travis and Lake LBJ, and everywhere in between.

Andy Thomas is the owner and sole proprietor of Viewpoint Lighting, an award-winning landscape and architectural lighting design-build firm in the Sacramento region of California. Thomas has been a licensed landscape contractor in the state of California since January 2006, as well as a Certified Low Voltage Lighting Technician and Certified Outdoor Lighting Designer. He is the vice president of the Association of Outdoor Lighting Professionals, as well as current COLD committee co-chair and former CLVLT committee chair. He does not sleep, due to his roles as a dad of three, running a semi-profitable lighting business, maintaining the family household and volunteering at his kids’ schools.