Dialight Lumidrives of North Yorkshire, England, has appointed Simon Aldred as sales manager, the company announced today. Aldred has more than 10 years experience in the lighting and electronics industry and spent the previous five years selling high-power LED technology in the UK and Europe as Lumileds' UK supplier development manager. Dialight Lumidrives specializes in the development of components to enable applications in solid-state lighting, including power drivers, LED arrays and optics. It is a subsidiary of applied LED technology supplier Dialight Plc.