With the kinds of customers Tim serves, good lighting can be a matter of life and death. Mines, factories, steel mills – all require lighting that isn’t going to melt, start a fire or blow up! Tim and his company, Dialight, keep sustainability at the forefront of their mission while helping customers achieve their environmental and safety goals. Tim does have one frequent customer complaint though: people can’t believe how dirty their facilities are once they’re properly lit!

Tim Cillessen is Dialight’s VP of Sales, overseeing global sales as well as marketing and customer service operations to drive revenue growth and develop strategies to expand Dialight’s market share. Tim began his career as a Product Development Engineer, where he gained valuable experience in developing and testing instrumentation products for various industrial markets, eventually moving to work at Siemens as a Product Manager for Instrumentation and quickly rising the ranks to become their Head of Sales and Marketing for the Process Safety division – leading sales and marketing teams and developing solutions to increase safety in some of the toughest markets.

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