With Thanksgiving approaching, our thoughts focus on our families and paying homage to the people that have helped us in our lives.
For the past two decades, I have worked closely with the Wang family who own WAC Lighting. I attended company meetings during the day, but my wife and I have spent many evenings watching Tai, Shelley, Tony and Thomas receive recognition for their outstanding work in the community. The Wangs support a holistic business approach and continuing education, transforming their family values into what we now call Responsible Lighting.
27 years ago, Tony and his wife Tai came to the States with a dream of working for themselves, with their one-year-old daughter Shelley, in-tow. With little savings, they purchased a supermarket and doubled the business within a year through hard work and solid values. They later sold the store and founded WAC. I remember Tai recounted how she unloaded their first 40-foot container, just a month after the birth of their son Thomas. Fiscally conservative and dedicated, they valued integrity and doing things right the first time.
Years later, Tony was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year, recognizing this gentleman for growing a small portable lamp company into a manufacturing leader of track and recessed lighting. Among her many achievements, Tai received Rotary’s Gift Of Life International Humanitarian Award for helping save many lives of Chinese children born with heart defects; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for contributions to America while preserving her heritage, and the LaGuardia College’s Innovative Leadership Award. Tai has made dozens of expeditions for Alliance for Smiles, helping to provide necessary surgery for children born with cleft lips and palates.
Shelley Wald, WAC’s president, continues to astonish at such a young age. She already won the Residential lighting Industry Leadership Award, spearheads the ALA Young Executives Task Force, and delivers presentations on new lighting technologies. Shelley serves on the Board for the NY Asian Women Center to fight human trafficking and abuse, supports the H Foundation for cancer research, and along with her mother, was honored by Women Achievers Against the Odds. Also achieving success at a young age, Thomas Wang has grown into International Sales Manager based in Shanghai. Thomas attends scores of global events, often sharing his presence with international heads of state and commerce. Recently joining the family is Dirk Wald, Shelley’s husband and a lighting star who is working to expand the company’s endeavors and goodwill.
Under the Wangs’ leadership, WAC has become a true icon for Responsible Lighting, a global maker of energy efficient lighting. As we begin to enter the holiday season, the Wangs continue to inspire us to live with a strong sense of family, spirit, charity, altruism and joy.
~Chris Pica
Public Relations Consultant
For the past two decades, I have worked closely with the Wang family who own WAC Lighting. I attended company meetings during the day, but my wife and I have spent many evenings watching Tai, Shelley, Tony and Thomas receive recognition for their outstanding work in the community. The Wangs support a holistic business approach and continuing education, transforming their family values into what we now call Responsible Lighting.
27 years ago, Tony and his wife Tai came to the States with a dream of working for themselves, with their one-year-old daughter Shelley, in-tow. With little savings, they purchased a supermarket and doubled the business within a year through hard work and solid values. They later sold the store and founded WAC. I remember Tai recounted how she unloaded their first 40-foot container, just a month after the birth of their son Thomas. Fiscally conservative and dedicated, they valued integrity and doing things right the first time.
Years later, Tony was nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year, recognizing this gentleman for growing a small portable lamp company into a manufacturing leader of track and recessed lighting. Among her many achievements, Tai received Rotary’s Gift Of Life International Humanitarian Award for helping save many lives of Chinese children born with heart defects; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for contributions to America while preserving her heritage, and the LaGuardia College’s Innovative Leadership Award. Tai has made dozens of expeditions for Alliance for Smiles, helping to provide necessary surgery for children born with cleft lips and palates.
Shelley Wald, WAC’s president, continues to astonish at such a young age. She already won the Residential lighting Industry Leadership Award, spearheads the ALA Young Executives Task Force, and delivers presentations on new lighting technologies. Shelley serves on the Board for the NY Asian Women Center to fight human trafficking and abuse, supports the H Foundation for cancer research, and along with her mother, was honored by Women Achievers Against the Odds. Also achieving success at a young age, Thomas Wang has grown into International Sales Manager based in Shanghai. Thomas attends scores of global events, often sharing his presence with international heads of state and commerce. Recently joining the family is Dirk Wald, Shelley’s husband and a lighting star who is working to expand the company’s endeavors and goodwill.
Under the Wangs’ leadership, WAC has become a true icon for Responsible Lighting, a global maker of energy efficient lighting. As we begin to enter the holiday season, the Wangs continue to inspire us to live with a strong sense of family, spirit, charity, altruism and joy.
~Chris Pica
Public Relations Consultant
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