Fulham Names Jeremy Ludyjan to New Role as Senior Director of Field Marketing

New Global Marketing Role Created to Support Expanding Lines in Emergency Lighting, LED Retrofit Products, and Clever Lighting Components.

Hawthorne, CA, USA -- Fulham (http://www.fulham.com), a market leader in LED and lighting component innovation, today announced the appointment of Jeremy Ludyjan to the newly created position of Senior Director of Field Marketing. In his new role, Ludyjan will be responsible for serving as liaison between Fulham's global sales team and home office, helping to target markets and accounts.

Part of Jeremy's new responsibilities will be presenting Fulham's expanding line of clever lighting LED component products to OEMs and manufacturers. With the lighting industry moving toward smart lighting, a market niche has emerged between "cheap, dumb" lighting components and connected and controllable smart lighting systems. Fulham's clever LED products are programmable, giving vendors a means to differentiate their products with custom luminaire designs without having to retool manufacturing. Fulham also is seeing market growth for its emergency lighting LED systems and LED lighting retrofit kits.

"This is an exciting time at Fulham as we continue to develop clever lighting products that can be built into customer valued, differentiated luminaires," said Russ Sharer, Vice President of Global Marketing. "Jeremy will be instrumental in helping us learn from our customers and educate the market about the possibilities of clever lighting."

Ludyjan has more than two decades of sales and marketing experience in semiconductors and solid-state lighting. Before joining Fulham, Ludyjan was General Manager for Velocity Electronics with global responsibility for distribution of solid-state lighting components and finished goods to OEMs and lighting installers.

Jeremy is Lighting Certified by the National Council of Qualified Lighting Professionals and holds a degree in International Business from Texas Wesleyan University.

About Fulham
Fulham Co., Inc. is a leading global provider of intelligent, socially-conscious sustainable commercial lighting components and electronics for use in commercial general lighting, parking structure, signage, horticultural, UV and other applications. The company develops and manufactures a variety of award-winning LED and emergency products, as well as legacy products across multiple lighting platforms. Fulham sells its lighting solutions worldwide through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and electrical equipment distribution channels. Headquartered in Hawthorne, Calif., the company has sales and/or manufacturing facilities in the Netherlands, China, India and the UAE. For more information, visit http://www.fulham.com.

Media Contact:
Andy Firchau
Marketing Manager
Fulham Co., Inc.
Phone: +1 (323) 779-2980, ext. 1252

London Speaker Bureau to Represent Cybersecurity and Financial Regulation Visionary Edgar Perez

Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street, to provide CEOs, directors and senior managers around the world his insights on the role of finance, technology and geopolitics in innovating and driving performance across organizations of all types.

New York City, NY, USA -- Mr. Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street, is now being represented by London Speaker Bureau. Mr. Perez is available to speak at forums around the globe on Economics & Finance, Future & Technology, Government & Politics, and Leadership & Motivation. For more information, event managers can visit http://www.londonspeakerbureau.com/speakers/edgar-perez.

London Speaker Bureau is a dynamic organization with a solid global presence. In one recent month they were involved in 161 events held in 85 cities in 31 countries. They are a team of 90 colleagues based across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America, each with a detailed understanding of their region's economic and governmental scene. Choosing them to help find a speaker will ensure the client's event or meeting has somebody experienced and world class.

Edgar Perez, author of The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street, is a recognized keynote speaker and director of programs targeted at board members, chief executive officers and senior executives looking for new ways to gain and maintain a competitive business advantage. He can be reached through Twitter and Weibo.

ABOUT SPEAKER'S KEYNOTE TOPICS

The Impact of Brexit in the U.K and the World
Companies inside and outside Britain's borders have warned that the Brexit decision is affecting their businesses, highlighting how the June vote for the UK to leave the European Union is having wide repercussions. The vote roiled equity markets worldwide and led to a devaluation of sterling amid concerns over a prolonged slowdown in consumer demand. The U.K.'s decision to leave the European Union inflicted an immediate blow on the economy as business activity shrank at its fastest pace since the last recession seven years ago. The International Monetary Fund said that it had become less optimistic on global growth, and warned the damage could worsen if confidence falters among investors and companies, as fears abound over businesses and customers reining in spending during a period of uncertainty for the UK as it negotiates the terms of its exit. Mr. Perez will identify the world economies that will feel the lion's share of the short and long-term pain to come.

Blockchain and its impact on Finance
Blockchain technology (the software behind the digital currency, Bitcoin) offers an opportunity to overhaul existing business models, including banking infrastructure, approach to settlements and customer interactions. Now it is only a matter of time before the broader financial services and banking industries shift to blockchain and network-based approaches. The application possibilities are endless, improving the way we hold and transfer secure goods from money to deeds to music to intellectual property. In fact, blockchain, as a pure platform technology, may be able to cut out the middlemen (or middle companies) everywhere, even disrupting other disruptors like Airbnb or Uber. Mr. Perez will explain why the question is not whether network business models supported by blockchain technology will disrupt organizations, but when.

The Biggest Risks for Financial Markets
Constant regulatory changes and technological evolution have transformed the financial landscape so profoundly since the advent of the first electronic networks in the early 1970s. Regulators around the world are now in a race to respond to the evolution of technology in financial markets and prevent its operational challenges from becoming the biggest risk for financial markets. However, when considering technology and the cyber landscape, errors are bound to happen. Financial services firms are expected to have deployed the most sophisticated defense systems against cyberattacks. Trading firms are expected to have controls in place and invest in the technology to keep up to date. Most companies would realize the need of these investments and honestly attempt to implement them, but their IT departments would soon hit a wall, because of direct involvement from senior management and boards of directors. Compliance actions against those who missed their importance will go a long way toward restoring investor confidence and limiting the impact of the biggest risk for financial markets.

Finance in the New Global Economy
Until quite recently, globalization was seen as a one-way street. Multinationals, which led the charge four decades or so ago into growing global markets, were its ambassadors, and American and European workers, whose wages and upward mobility were flattened, were feeling left out. The core idea was that globalization, technological innovation and unfettered free trade would erase historical and geographic boundaries, making the world ever more economically interconnected and alike. Developed economies would come under more and more competitive pressure from eager upstart nations. Now we are entering a new age of volatility. Financiers will become less important, manufacturers more so. Blue collar jobs will go high tech. Robots will replace Chinese workers. Mr. Perez will discuss why finance stands now in front of its biggest transformation triggered not by any of the financial conglomerates that dominate the world today but by obscure startups that could be working already in garages in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Kiev or Delhi.

China: To Rebalance or Not to Rebalance
China's 12th Five-Year Guideline in 2011 included efforts to rebalance its economy, shifting emphasis from investment towards consumption and development from urban and coastal areas toward rural and inland areas. Flash forward to 2016 and the country is exhibiting massive overcapacity in sectors linked to real estate, steel, cement, coal and construction equipment, zombie businesses continue to undermine the sustainability of China's growth and exports are declining. At 260% of gross domestic product, the country's overall debt is approaching danger levels. The world's second-largest economy is now posting its weakest annual growth in 25 years, 6.9% for 2015. To top it all, $676 billion left China in 2015; with so much overcapacity in China, lack of confidence in the future as monetary policy can change tomorrow, why should people keep money inside China? Why should we bet on China? Mr. Perez will bring the answers you are looking for.

Social Engineering: The "Weakest Human Link" in Cybersecurity
Social engineering involves tricking your employees into breaching security protocols or giving away information, most often over the telephone or via email. Social engineering exploits human weaknesses rather than technology, preying upon people's propensity towards trust in particular. Often, these exploits are used to gather information to support a more targeted cyberattack, with the initial forays based on the premise of 'little and often' so as not to cause concern. Employees at all levels, including senior executives, are vulnerable. Mr. Perez will explain why by improving employee awareness and introducing simple technical measures, organizations can protect themselves against social engineering techniques and the risk of a cyberattack and its potential impact on business, customers and data.

The Importance of the Cybersecurity Framework for Directors and CEOs
An email embedded with malware. Security systems hacked by thieves. Credit card numbers stolen from store purchases. There's certainly no shortage of examples when it comes to data security breaches and the havoc they wreak on business. No wonder then that nearly a third of CEOs in KPMG's latest global survey identified cyber security as the issue having the biggest impact on their companies today. Every organization should apply a Cybersecurity Framework for analyzing cyber security, and ideally it should be integrated into an organization's existing enterprise risk framework. The key is making it part of the mainstream of risk management within an organization. The most innovative companies today have recognized that cyber security is a customer experience and revenue opportunity, not just a risk that needs to be managed. Mr. Perez will explain why this must done across the entire organization and why the CEO and Board of Directors have the most important role to play.

Establishing or Improving a Cybersecurity Program
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which was drafted by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), comprises leading practices from various standards bodies that have proved to be successful when implemented, and it also may deliver regulatory and legal advantages that extend well beyond improved cybersecurity for organizations that adopt it early. Its adoption may prove advantageous for businesses across virtually all industries. Mr. Perez will explain why a proper Cybersecurity Program will build on the analysis of the possible areas of concern, an understanding of the company's most critical assets, and a thorough review of Information Technology's policies and procedures when faced with cybercrime.

The Present and Future of High-Frequency Trading
On May 6, 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 1,000 points, then its biggest intraday point drop ever. The "Flash Crash" revealed the influence of high-frequency trading to mainstream audiences around the world. In fact, over the past 15 years, the global financial market has fragmented: where there were once three main U.S. exchanges, there are now more than 40 exchanges and alternative trading systems. High-frequency trading companies have largely replaced traditional broker-dealers, using algorithms instead of human traders to make decisions in milliseconds, mostly in response to orders made by other algorithms. Mr. Perez will discuss the benefits brought by technology, making trading faster and more efficient, as well as the potential costs brought upon institutional and retail investors.

ABOUT EDGAR PEREZ
Mr. Edgar Perez is a published author, business consultant for billion-dollar private equity and hedge funds and Council Member at the Gerson Lehrman Group, Guidepoint Global Advisors and Research International, with subject matter expertise in cyber security, investing, trading, financial regulation (Dodd-Frank Act) and market structure.

He is author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013), and The Speed Traders, An Insider's Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), Published in Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi Super Kilat, published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012).

Mr. Perez is course director of Cybersecurity Boardroom Workshop, How Boards of Directors and CXOs Can Build the Proper Foundation to Address Today's Information Security Challenges, and The Speed Traders Workshop, How High Frequency Traders Leverage Profitable Strategies to Find Alpha in Equities, Options, Futures and FX; he has presented his workshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Warsaw, Kiev, New York, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai. He contributes to The New York Times and China's International Finance News and Sina Finance.

Mr. Perez has presented to the Council on Foreign Relations, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment & HFT Summit APAC (Shanghai), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), Hult International Business School (Shanghai) and Pace University (New York), among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Cyber Security World Conference (New York), Inside Market Data (Chicago), Emerging Markets Investments Summit (Warsaw), CME Group's Global Financial Leadership Conference (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business School's Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional Investor's Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Technical Analysis Society (Singapore), TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul) and Private Equity Convention Russia, CIS & Eurasia (London).

Mr. Perez has been interviewed on CNN's Quest Means Business, CNBC's Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow and Squawk Box, FOX BUSINESS's Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell, Bloomberg TV's Market Makers, CNN en Español's Dinero, Petersburg - Channel 5, Sina Finance, BNN's Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia's Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has been featured on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Yicai, eastmoney, Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CNFOL.com, CITICS Futures, Tongxin Securities, ZhiCheng.com, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua, CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News, ifeng.com, International Finance News, Finance.QQ.com, hexun.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9, iMoney Hong Kong, CNBC, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Perez is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer and resides in the New York City area.

Media Contact:
Julia Petrova
Media Relations Coordinator
The Speed Traders
+1-414-FORUMS0

Author Perry Ritthaler's "The Interrogator" is Now Available as eBook

Movie Script Unveils Secret Government Invisible Weapons Program.

Creston, British Columbia -- Local inspirational author and self-proclaimed cyber warfare physicist scientist releases a creative story; Perry Ritthaler of Creston BC Canada, will debut his mystery science novella "Interrogator" in the "Spy Land Women Play Me " collection Jan. 1, 2016 as part of eBookIt Publishing's line. He is planning a murder mystery party in January for the launch which will include an eBook trailer on YouTube.

Check out Perry Ritthaler's YouTube channel for new and more videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/digitalmindcoach/videos.

Ritthaler, a creative cyber warfare writing teacher; working from his private computer laboratory worked as a former undercurrent adviser to Presidents and Prime Ministers; he has been working for over 13 years in the science field during that time completed over 16 Publications in various and similar psychology science; while working in video production for a local movie theatre creating advertising raising working capital to fund his exploration.

In addition, he is the founder of "Writer...Digital Mind Coach," an online blog and community aimed at helping agencies and military discover the secret to balancing covert warfare weapons and strategy shifting Geo political power.

Set in a second dimension working seamlessly in Washington, D.C., at the Creston BC Computer Laboratory, "Interrogator" is a contemporary story of a Canadian writer nick named Magic, a bachelor lone wolf and Quantum Physics, Meta Physics, Astro Physics, Nero Linguistic Programmer, whose world operations online wreaks havoc at the Pentagon, threatening the operations and science revolving around homeland defense and the war on terror. When the "Canadian writer" alias "Magic" changes the rules of engagement and the creation of invisible weapons programs built in physics and psychology and economics he shifts world operations creating controlled chain reactions sending currency and oil production tied to stock markets commodities markets into tail spins spiraling down and up, Magic must rely on Debbie and Bill, the callous security professionals, to dissect what this mad scientist has created and released into the world. When they discover the Quantum Energy F35 and the Quantum Energy Star Wars asset programs have schematics that explain the operations it proves to them the nightmares in security are not fake, Bill and Debbie send the research up top to the Director of the FBI, NSA and CIA; and they immediately realize they need to work together. If they don't, the results could be deadly.

Perry Ritthaler, award-winning author of sixteen eBooks and novellas, including the "Discover How To Control Ideas, Decisions, and Affirmations" said, "Murder. Thefts of priceless invisible weapons created a zero capital cost will change rules of engagement and how wars are created or ended or won or lost. An ornery, mad scientist creating psychology virus programs with a penchant for getting into trouble. 'The Interrogator' is a fast-paced debut psychology science physics novella has it all and takes readers on an emotional ride into the future. A killer's rampage using the government as his covert weapon winds up this satisfying who-dun-it."

Ritthaler is available for interviews and appearances. For booking presentations, media appearances, interviews, and/or book-signings contact perry(at)digitalmindcoach(dot)net.

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Since 2010, eBookIt.com (based in Sudbury, Massachusetts) has helped thousands of authors and publishers get their books converted to ebook format, and distributed to all the major ebook retailers, including Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, Apple iBookstore, Kobo, Sony Readerstore, Ingram Digital, and Google eBookstore.

Media Contact:
Perry Ritthaler
Digital Mind Coach
250-428-5232