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Wojtek Cieplik

Twenty years across the lighting value chain.

Polish-born, based in Berlin. Educated in Katowice, first corporate job in Warsaw. Then Leverkusen, Tielt, San Jose, Munich, Berlin. From optical materials and LED packages to modules, fixtures, specification sales and country leadership. That range matters because market problems rarely respect organisational boundaries. Bayer, LED Engin, ams OSRAM, Luxon LED. Since 2024: LightGrow Consulting.

I have never been particularly useful as a spectator. When a market, team or role becomes difficult, I want to understand what is really happening and help carry the problem through to a decision. That sometimes means challenging the original brief. It always means being clear about what I see.

Wojtek Cieplik

Berlin. Mandate work. The language changes with the room.

Languages

  • Englishfluent
  • Deutschfluent
  • Polskinative
  • Españolworking proficiency

Spanish in the room, when the room needs it.

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Career

  1. 2024 —

    LightGrow Consulting — Founder

    Search, Organisational Diligence, advisory. Collaborates with Brandt & Partners on selected mandates. Operational with Exceedation in the specification channel.

  2. 2023

    Luxon LED — DACH Business

    First non-domestic market. Build-out from Wrocław and Dresden, post-COVID project business.

  3. 2017 — 2023

    ams OSRAM — Product Management

    LED Engin integration into Opto Semiconductors, Regensburg. Munich, Berlin.

  4. 2014 — 2017

    LED Engin — Specification Sales

    Spec-in across three continents. EMEA and Pacific. San Jose.

  5. 2003 — 2014

    Bayer — Business Development

    Internal start-up: optical materials to a product line. Warsaw, Leverkusen, Tielt.

Master of Economics and Business, University of Economics, Katowice.

Where the work happens

Light + Building, London, Warsaw, New York, Barcelona. Work and dialogue with clients, partners and industry networks in Turkey, Lebanon, the US, Singapore, Spain, DACH, the Nordics, Poland.

Public

LED professional Review · arc magazine

Organisational Diligence, published as the Enterprise Health Program in LED professional Review (March/April 2025). In arc magazine: how organisational terrain decides what happens on site. Regular writing on lighting, people and the decisions that determine whether organisations grow or get stuck.

Ongoing

Questions I keep returning to

Some subjects sit across product, design, health and business. They are not separate service lines. They are where I believe lighting is heading.

Light that works on bodies, not only on surfaces

Human-centric lighting cannot stop at tuneable white. It involves spectrum, intensity, timing, spatial distribution, controls and natural light — and a serious discussion about the health consequences when these are ignored. The role of infrared wavelengths deserves far more attention than it receives.

When light, sound and furniture become one system

Acoustic lighting is not simply a luminaire with felt attached. In workplaces, hospitality and public interiors — or living rooms — lighting, acoustics, furniture and spatial experience increasingly become one product and one commercial conversation.

Circularity

TM65 and TM66 are useful beginnings. The harder questions come later: can the luminaire be maintained, dismantled, reused or remanufactured? Who owns its second life? What happens to every component when the first installation ends?