The Key to Light
Kerry Penwell is a pioneer in the blending of architectural lighting design and AV integration professions. But unlike most AV integrators who are only now beginning to consider lighting, his career started there more than two decades ago.
The owner of the 13-person Greenville, SCbased Kasted (the lighting design division) and Drakes Penwell Design Group (the AV integration division) studied electrical engineering and physics, before taking his first job in the electrical engineering field doing construction and power distribution work. He was soon drawn to architectural lighting design, an area that his boss at the time wasn’t as interested in
