About Billy Wilson Howard Junior
In 1994, Billy Wilson Howard Junior founded Howard Lighting and grew the business to $60 million in revenue. Today, he sits on the board of directors of Howard Industries, a two-billion-dollar electrical and technology company consisting of four separate divisions and a wholly-owned subsidiary, Howard Transportation.
In 1989, Billy Howard Junior became president of Howard Transportation and ran the operation for 22 years. The company’s fleet of 250 trucks delivers long-haul flatbed transportation services to manufacturers in the eastern United States. Prior to heading Howard Transportation, Billy was the Regional Sales Manager and VP of the 3-Phase Transformer Division.
Within five years, Billy founded Howard Lighting, headquartered in Laurel, Mississippi, and served as president for 28 years. Howard Lighting has two manufacturing facilities in Mississippi, totaling half a million square feet, and a regional distribution center and sales office in the Greater Los Angeles Area. It offers a complete line of lighting products, including fixtures, lamps, and ballasts. Its fixtures include a full range of modern, high-efficiency LED products, most of which meet the latest DLC requirements. The company also offers many popular legacy fluorescent, HID, and Halogen lighting fixtures. Its lamp offerings include LED retrofit, linear fluorescent, compact fluorescent, high-intensity discharge (HID), and halogen. Howard’s ballast line-up includes electronic and magnetic fluorescent and magnetic HID ballasts.
Throughout Billy’s leadership and beyond, Howard Lighting continues to upgrade existing products and introduce new ones to provide cutting-edge products that meet the ever-changing demands of the lighting market.
In 2013, Billy Wilson Howard Junior founded the Howard Industries Center for Digital Innovation in Santa Monica, California, and led the firm for nearly seven years. The Center for Digital Innovation incubates Internet startups and develops innovative technology solutions for Howard Industries’ $1 billion utility products, lighting, eCommerce, education, medical, and interactive systems divisions. The combination of its talented team, Silicon Beach location, and shared-space office offers an ideal environment for creativity and new ideas to flourish. Its first launch was Slance.com, a platform that allows students to get paid while supplementing their education with relevant work experience.
