PANASONIC JOINS CABA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

"I am delighted to announce Daniel's appointment to the Board," stated Ronald J. Zimmer, CABA President & CEO. "Daniel's interest and strong knowledge of the connected home sector will be a great asset for our organization."

Hogan is President of the Panasonic Home & Environment Company, a subsidiary designed to expand the range of products and services Panasonic offers to homebuilders, residential renovation contractors and their suppliers.

Previously, he was Director of Panasonic Boston Laboratory, the only pure hardware corporate R&D lab maintained by Matsushita Group outside of Japan. The lab's core competence is lasers and optics; with special emphasis on ultra-short pulse laser processing and micro-optics design and fabrication. Before that, he had extensive entrepreneurial experience founding and advising startup technology companies.

Hogan received his BS from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and his Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from Oxford University in the United Kingdom.


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CABA is the only industry association to offer industry intelligence to stakeholders in all areas of home & building automation. CABA's resources cover areas such as HVAC, lighting, security, A/V, communications technologies, energy management and controls. A number of resources are available through the association including iHomes & Buildings magazine, CABA's Summits and Conferences, CABA's monthly eBulletin, Information Series reports, Event Reports and the CABA web site. Please visit www.caba.org for further information.

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