Effective March 28, 2016, the Board of Directors of Lighting Science Group Corporation appointed Mark D. Gorton as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the company. Mr. Gorton, previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Distron Corporation, an electronics contract manufacturer, from April 2013 to March 2016. From 2005 to 2013, Mr. Gorton served as Vice President of Finance at Summer Infant Inc., where his duties and responsibilities included leading financial growth initiatives, directing due diligence and audit teams for several acquisitions, overseeing Securities and Exchange Commission reporting, implementing and executing bank financing transactions and managing the company's program for compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.