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Dr. Thomas Marinelli has been in the lighting industry since 2004. Over the past 22 years, he’s been responsible for multiple sustainability projects across the Royal Philips business before transitioning into his current role with Signify.


He is now responsible for driving sustainability strategic priorities, such as identifying social, circular, energy-efficient and other sustainable design opportunities for the lighting product portfolio, as well as business opportunities to make Signify’s propositions more interesting and attractive for customers.


He has a PhD in heterogeneous catalysis and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management.