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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001437749-14-009743
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20140521
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20140522
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20140522

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000924168
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC LIGHTING & WIRING EQUIPMENT [3640]
		IRS NUMBER:				943021850
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-24230
		FILM NUMBER:		14863231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		32000 AURORA ROAD
		CITY:			SOLON
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			44139
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5104900719

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		32000 AURORA ROAD
		CITY:			SOLON
		STATE:			OH
		ZIP:			44139

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	FIBERSTARS INC /CA/
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19940527
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA16><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><B>Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the<BR>Securities Exchange Act of 1934</B></FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA18><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): <B>May 21, 2014</B></FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA20><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><B>ENERGY FOCUS, INC.</B></FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN-TOP: 0pt; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0pt" id=PARA71><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><B>Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.</B></FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA73><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">On May 21, 2014, the Board of Directors (the &#8220;Board&#8221;) of Energy Focus, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) appointed Thomas S. Swidarski to the Board to fill an existing vacancy. Mr. Swidarski will serve as a director of the Company until the next annual meeting of stockholders of the Company and until his successor is elected and qualified or until his earlier death, disqualification, resignation or removal.</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; TEXT-INDENT: 36pt; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA75><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mr. Swidarski will be compensated in accordance with the Company&#8217;s non-employee director compensation policy, pursuant to which he will receive an annual retainer of $20,000. In connection with his appointment, he was also granted 100,000 stock options which will vest over three years. </FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA88><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Press release dated May 22, 2014</FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" id=PARA121.1>Dated: May 22, 2014</P></TD>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px" id=PARA121.14><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">/s/&nbsp;</FONT>Frank Lamanna</P></TD>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA4><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><B>Thomas Swidarski Joins the Board of Directors of Energy Focus</B></FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA6><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">SOLON, Ohio, May 22, 2014&#8212;Energy Focus, Inc. (OTCQB:EFOI), a leader in LED lighting technologies, today announced that Thomas W. Swidarski has been appointed to the Company&#8217;s Board of Directors. </FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA8><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">&#8220;We are extre</FONT><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">mely pleased that Tom has agreed to join our Board of Directors,&#8221; said James Tu, Executive Chairman. &#8220;Having served as CEO and President of Diebold Incorporated, a global provider of technologies and services to commercial businesses, Tom brings to us a wide range of relevant and proven insights and experiences in strategic development, international operations, financial management, marketing and branding, and mergers and acquisitions, as we continue to build momentum in the vast and rapidly emerging LED lighting retrofit markets we focus on.&#8221; </FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA10><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">&#8220;Under Tom&#8217;s leadership, Diebold was transformed from a 150-year old hardware, manufacturing centric company to a software led services organization aligned with the security, convenience and efficiency needs of its clients, and along the way achieved record revenues of $3 billion with 17,000 employees in 100 countries. We very much look forward to benefiting from Tom&#8217;s successful corporate development passion and expertise as we strive to build a winning culture with LED lighting products and services that provide high performance, low cost and client centric advantages,&#8221; concluded Mr. Tu.</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA12><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">&#8220;I am very excited about joining the board of such a dynamic company that is at the forefront of the LED lighting adoption,&#8221; said Mr. Swidarski. &#8220;I look forward to leveraging my global experiences to contribute to Energy Focus&#8217; plans and initiatives to aggressively attack this revolutionary market opportunity in the lighting industry.&#8221;</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA14><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><B>About Tom Swidarski</B></FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA16><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mr. Swidarski is currently non-executive chairman of Asurint, a privately held company in the background verification industry, and a director of Spearfysh, a private start-up technology company focusing on improving sales productivity through the capture, cloud storage, search and retrieval of customer interactions. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Altra Industrial Motion Corp., a publically traded $700 million leading global designer, producer and marketer of a wide range of electromechanical power transmission products.</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA18><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mr. Swidarski previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Diebold Incorporated, a $3 billion global leader in designing, manufacturing and distributing self service ATMs in over 100 countries, from December 2005 to January 2013. Prior to becoming CEO and President, Mr. Swidarski served in various capacities including Chief Operating Officer, Senior Vice President of Financial Self-Service Group, and held various strategic development and marketing positions at Diebold after joining the company in 1996. Prior to Diebold, Mr. Swidarski worked in the banking sector for 16+ years. </FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA25><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Energy Focus, Inc. is a leading provider of energy efficient LED lighting products, turnkey energy efficient lighting solutions and a developer of energy efficient lighting technology. Our solutions provide energy savings, aesthetics, safety and maintenance cost benefits over conventional lighting. Our long-standing relationship with the U.S. Government continues to enable us to provide energy efficient LED lighting products to the U.S. Navy and the Military Sealift Command fleets.</FONT></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left; LINE-HEIGHT: 1.25; MARGIN: 0pt" id=PARA27><FONT style="FONT-FAMILY: Times New Roman, Times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Customers include national, state and local U.S. government agencies as well as Fortune 500 companies, the U.S. Navy, and many others. Company headquarters are located in Solon, OH, with additional offices in Nashville, TN, and the United Kingdom. For more information, see our web site at www.energyfocusinc.com. </FONT></P>
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