Meet the LW Team: Zacheriah Cole

Meet one of our founding members, Zacheriah Cole. Zac has had a passion for hands-on engineering and problem solving since his childhood days of building RC toys from bits of old dismantled toys and rebuilding engines for his family.

He received his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and then embarked on an 18-year career with Rolls-Royce Aerospace that involved a series of high-profile projects including turbine design and development, flight testing, and manufacturing research and development. He spent a four-year assignment in Japan as the Rolls-Royce flight test engineer for the US-2 large search and rescue amphibious aircraft program. 

Upon return, Zac began a series of assignments managing start-up technologies within Rolls-Royce manufacturing, working to mature and industrialize these technologies for full-rate production. It was during this time where Zac honed his manufacturing capabilities.

Zac uses data-driven decision-making to improve technical project performance and drive robust business and product choices. His key strengths include numerical analyses/statistics, simulation, and Lean implementation, and his passion is open-ocean sailing.