Neil Bostock Joins Bridgelux as Chief Financial Officer

Bridgelux Captures Seasoned LED Industry Professional for Executive Management
Team
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Bridgelux, Inc., a U.S. lighting company and leading supplier of energy-saving
light-emitting diode (LED)-based light sources, today announced that Neil
Bostock has joined Bridgelux as chief financial officer. Bostock will be
responsible for managing all finance and administrative functions, reporting
directly to Bridgelux CEO, Mark Swoboda.

"As chief financial officer, Neil brings deep LED industry experience and the
vision to help grow Bridgelux into a world-class solid-state lighting company,"
said Mark Swoboda, Bridgelux chief executive officer. "Since expanding our
product portfolio this year to include solid-state light sources incorporating
LED technology, we face the challenge of growing our resources and global
infrastructure to support expanding market demand in fast growing interior and
exterior application areas such as street lights, track and downlights. Neil is
uniquely qualified to help us manage through the high growth changes faced by a
high technology company."

Neil Bostock comes to Bridgelux with over 35 years` experience in finance and 19
years of experience with LED and semiconductor manufacturing. Prior to joining
Bridgelux, Bostock served as CFO at Philips Lumileds. He joined the company when
it was a newly constituted joint venture between Philips and Hewlett
Packard/Agilent in 1999. He helped to build the company`s infrastructure and
identity as an independent company and transition the organization from steep
losses to profitability. Bostock continued at Philips Lumileds through the
acquisition of the joint venture by Philips, remaining until the end of 2008.

From 1994 to 1999, Bostock served as Business Group Controller for the Philips
Semiconductor Multi Market Business Group based in Sunnyvale, Calif. The
business group grew to annual revenues of approximately $1 billion with
worldwide markets and wafer fabs in North America, Europe and Asia. Before 1994,
Bostock, worked at the Power Division of Philips Semiconductors based in Hazel
Grove, England as Business Group Controller where he was responsible for the
worldwide activities of the $200 million business unit with a wafer fab in
England and assembly in the Philippines. Between 1970 and 1989, Bostock served
in senior finance positions at several electronics and engineering companies.

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a U.S. lighting company and leading provider of high-power,
cost-effective and energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) solutions.
Focused on bringing innovation to light, Bridgelux`s proprietary epitaxial
technology, advanced chip designs and leading-edge LED packaging technology have
enabled the company to develop advanced solid-state lighting (SSL) products that
offer superior quality, are lower in cost and environmentally friendly - all
without compromising performance. In addition to LED chips, the company delivers
a range of SSL light sources that customers can easily integrate into a variety
of lighting applications that will open up new markets in solid-state lighting.
Founded in 2002, Bridgelux is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more
information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, Inc.
Brian Fisher, 408-990-7563
brianfisher@bridgelux.com

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