President
IALD, IES
Suzan Tillotson founded the company in 2004 with twenty-three years of lighting design experience. Her work has been featured in many national and international publications. She has won twenty awards for her work. Ms. Tillotson is a corporate member of the I.A.L.D., has been an I.E.S. member for twenty-four years and was president of the Southwest Louisiana Section. She has also served as an awards judge for the New York I.E.S. Lumens and the I.A.L.D. She has taught the New York I.E.S. Introductory Lighting Course, numerous lighting design and rendering workshops, and guest lectured at Louisiana State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Cornell University. Ms. Tillotson currently teaches lighting design to architecture students at Princeton University School of Architecture.
After graduating from Louisiana State University, School of Architecture with a B.S. in Interior Design, Ms. Tillotson worked for Levy-Kramer Associates, a thirty-five person engineering firm, where she was head of the lighting department. Upon relocating to NYC in 1986, Ms. Tillotson acquired additional experience at Flack + Kurtz Engineers and H. M. Brandston and Partners before joining Jerry Kugler and later forming Kugler Tillotson Associates. Ms. Tillotson has directed all phases of design for a wide variety of award-winning domestic and overseas projects.