Engineers who have been immersing electronics since 2006

Ken has spent his career as an executive in technology and financial services companies. Alongside his roles at LiquidCool Solutions, he serves as Vice-Chair of TMI Holdings, Inc.

He previously held executive roles including EVP, Wealth Technologies at FIS; EVP, BMO Global Private Bank; Chair of M&I Wealth Management and Capital Markets; EVP, Wealth Management at Fifth Third Bank; SVP, Capital Markets at Bank of America (Continental Bank); and VP in Derivative Products at Citicorp.

Ken is Board Chair of Milwaukee Film, a former Board Chair and President of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and a former board member of 88Nine Radio Milwaukee.

Rick's career as a technologist, manager, and engineering executive spans several major technology companies. He was Executive Director of Engineering for Dell's Enterprise Division, responsible for server, blade, and storage product development.

He also served as Senior Director of Engineering and Corporate Research Fellow at Maxtor Corporation, leading high-performance SCSI storage and emerging technology development, and held executive and technical leadership roles at Western Digital, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM.

Rick holds 14 patents and has authored numerous papers on data storage and computer technology.

Brian joined LCS in October 2025 after four decades in development, strategy, and growth roles. He previously led the Industrial & Smart Energy segment at Celestica, a global electronics manufacturing services provider.

Before Celestica he held three leadership roles at Honeywell, led Rockwell Automation's Global Process Transformation Program and its Kinetix motion-control business, and held management roles at Comtrol, Eaton, and Schneider Electric, including four years in France.

Brian holds a BSEE from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, is a senior member of ISA, and has contributed to IEEE 802, ISA S88, and IEC 61131 standards work.

David manages LCS research and development projects. He joined LCS in 2010 after a 30-year career at IBM, where he was an Executive Project Manager for multi-million-dollar projects in the Systems and Technology Group.

He holds a Master of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin.

Daryl spent more than 25 years at IBM as an engineer, lead engineer, and manager, working on hardware quality for System/36 and System/38 and software development for 14″, 5.25″, and 3.5″ hard disk drives, and served as customer interface for drive integration and testing.

He was also a lead engineer in Hitachi's System Integration Test Lab.

Tim is an engineering technician with more than 30 years of experience. At IBM, Western Digital, and JDSU he provided manufacturing and field support and performed failure analysis to raise yields.

As Lead Manufacturing Technician for Hardcore Computer, he helped launch the Reactor, ReactorX, and Detonator liquid-submerged computer systems. He has been with LCS since 2014.

Steve spent more than 20 years designing mechanical and electrical packaging for high-performance computers, including Cray Research's T3D, T3E, Y-MP, and C90 supercomputers, and SGI's Origin 200 and Origin 2000 systems.

He later served as Lead System Integrator at United Defense and BAE Systems on packaging for the Army's XM1203 Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon, and has worked at Lockheed Martin and Hutchinson Technology.

Sean works on LCS mechanical, fluid, and thermal solutions. He began by designing and testing server cooling units and control systems and now runs performance simulations to speed development.

He holds a BS in Automotive Engineering Technology from Minnesota State University.

Gary earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Pennsylvania State University and spent ten years developing high-altitude SIGINT systems at E-Systems/Raytheon.

He has since helped start-ups bring products to market, including ViA (wearable PCs), SpeechGear (the Endurance speech-to-speech translation tablet), ForeverBulb, and Hardcore Computer / LiquidCool.

Rafael is LCS's go-to for electro-mechanical work: he designs parts, manufactures them, and programs the electronics. His home machine shop has produced many LCS prototypes.

Before LCS he designed for Micro-Trak Systems, programmed for Windland Electronics, and provided electro-mechanical and circuit-board design for SPX Corporation.

Chad leads business development, drawing on relationship-management experience supporting middle-market and large corporate clients at JPMorgan Chase.

Earlier, he earned nuclear engineer certification in the US Navy's submarine force, where he developed an appreciation for thermal management. He has held a Series 7 license and managed an early-stage investment network.

Steve has spent 25 years in mergers and acquisitions, the last 15 as a partner in Capital Midwest Fund, a venture fund focused on Midwestern technology.

He holds an MS in chemical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now NYU) and a BA in chemistry from Cornell, and attended Wharton Graduate School.

Herb co-founded and built what LCS describes as the largest privately held district energy company in the US. He brings expertise in engineering, power generation, and energy conservation, and writes and speaks frequently on data center and immersion cooling.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Thermal Engineering from Cornell University, and an MS in Management from MIT.