Scott Roos

Scott Roos recently retired as the Vice President, Sustainability & Business Optimization, Specialty Lighting at Acuity Brands. 2025 marked Scott's 47th year in lighting, a career that encompassed product design, marketing, product management, strategic planning and lighting education. Products Scott has worked on have earned numerous patents and awards including the Industrial Design Excellence Award and LightFair's Most Innovative Product and Technical Innovation awards. He also developed the concepts and lighting design for numerous facilities, showrooms and tradeshow booths including the acclaimed Des Plaines, IL Center for Light and Space.  He has always been involved in pushing the envelope for critical topics of the time, from developing the first low voltage accent lighting products in the 80’s to helping advance CFL general illumination downlighting in the 90s to driving the development of the first commercially viable LED track and recessed solutions in the early 2000s. Most recently Scott has been a grain of sand in the oyster to encourage us to embrace wellness and sustainability as fundamental elements of good lighting and has been a regular speaker on both topics at national and regional industry events.  He is currently serving as a member of the IES Sustainability Committee, which is updating the LP10 Sustainable Lighting Practice document, the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) addressing the Environmental Aspects of Lighting and with Smart EPD to develop the Product Specific Rules for Luminaire Environmental Product Declarations in North America. Scott has a BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois and an MBA from De Paul University and resides in Glenview, IL a suburb of Chicago.