We are The Cosine.
We speak light.

Matt is a builder and an entrepreneur whose career spans design startups, global lighting manufacturers, and high-end product importation. His international experience and deep industry network inform his leadership at The Cosine. Today he focuses on innovation, strategic growth, and cultivating strong client relationships. His perspective is shaped by firsthand insight into how the lighting industry operates — and where it can evolve.

As Co-Founder and CEO, Matt oversees client cultivation, fixture procurement, and technical support, aligning creative ambition with operational clarity. He champions transparency, accessibility, and meaningful partnership, believing that better systems and stronger support elevate both designers and clients. His leadership combines entrepreneurial energy with a commitment to service and long-term impact.

A leader in the industry, Noele drives a globally informed practice shaped by work across six continents. Her background in architecture and lighting, combined with extensive project experience in workplace, wellness, retail, hospitality, and residential environments, gives her a clear, human-centered approach. As Co-founder and CDO, she directs The Cosine’s design strategy, values, and creative standards.

Noele excels at moving complex projects from concept through construction, aligning multidisciplinary teams and ensuring design intent is executed with clarity and detail. Her work is collaborative, analytical, and rooted in cultural depth. She leads the development of studio workflows and design systems, contributing structure and cohesion to The Cosine’s collective craft.

Tommy brings a relationship-driven, design-informed approach to sales leadership. With experience spanning administration, operations, and strategic growth, he understands both the creative vision and the processes that support it. At The Cosine, he collaborates with architects, designers, and builders to broaden the studio’s reach, aligning new opportunities with thoughtful execution.

His approach is collaborative and intentional. Tommy builds strong connections across the design and construction community, helping match the right opportunities with the studio’s capabilities. He supports projects with strategic guidance and collaborative insight, helping teams and clients achieve the best possible outcomes. A clear communicator and strategic thinker, he balances ambition with reliability— earning trust through consistency, responsiveness, and follow-through.

Juhee approaches light through both organic insight and architectural intention. With an unconventional background in biological sciences and graduate studies in architecture, she brings a rare interdisciplinary perspective to The Cosine—one that understands light not only as a design tool, but as an environmental force. Her fluency across these disciplines makes her a thoughtful leader and a valued resource for clients seeking both conceptual clarity and technical depth.

Her work balances analytical rigor with perceptual sensitivity. Juhee develops lighting concepts and plans that consider human impact, technical constraints, environmental context, and the full punctuation of light in space. She is an adept collaborator who brings logic, rigor, and intentionality to every phase of design.

Lindsay works in terms of how light feels: how tone, clarity, and contrast quietly shape the ways people move, gather, and understand themselves in a room. She brings an astute research-minded sensibility to The Cosine—pairing spatial awareness with technical fluency. Her design and project management expertise make her a steady contributor and a trusted partner in creating lighting solutions that support both experience and intention.

Methodical and perceptive, Lindsay’s work is rooted in both analysis and curiosity. She integrates concepts, layouts, specifications, photometrics, and control strategies into cohesive systems that carry design from early planning through implementation. She’s energized by emerging technologies and by the creative momentum that comes from collaborative, open-ended exploration.

Daniela is a lighting designer whose work bridges architecture, geography, and cultural considerations. With experience across architectural, urban, and interior design landscapes in Mexico and the United States, she brings a nuanced understanding of how environment and community shape the role of light in the built world. Her fluency in 3D modeling, visualization, and construction documentation allows her to translate conceptual intent into coherent, buildable systems.

She approaches design with narrative and technical rigor—developing holistic solutions that incorporate aesthetics, sustainability, and social impact. Daniela practices clarity, collaboration, and accountability, contributing a steady, team-oriented professionalism to The Cosine’s collective craft.

Simone practices a design-informed approach to project management. Originally from Australia, trained in architecture and integrated design, she spent years working as an interior designer in Los Angeles. She understands how light activates architecture and shapes experience. Her cross-disciplinary background strengthens her ability to support projects with both spatial awareness and operational clarity.

She manages projects with adaptability and acumen, recognizing that effective partnership requires different communication styles for different teams. With clear, direct coordination, Simone constructs space for open dialogue, managed timelines and aligned expectations. Her work incorporates a strong ethic, composure under pressure, and a commitment to collective success.

Raquel brings a detail-driven and ensemble-oriented mindset to The Cosine. With a background in theater and performance, including work at the Globe Theatre in London, she maintains a deep commitment to coordination, timing, and the collective effort required for seamless project delivery. Her foundation in both creative and technical environments manifests in her ability to support complex projects with clarity and expertise.

As Procurement Manager, Raquel oversees communication, operations, and cross-functional problem-solving. She is disciplined, with a strong sense of accountability and cooperative responsibility. Her organizational precision and calculated follow-through ensures that projects move efficiently and every detail is addressed.