Leadership | NextGenergy – Prefabricated liquid cooling and field services for AI data centres

Jim Li

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jim founded NextGenergy to move AI data centres beyond single-point equipment optimisation toward integrated system design across power, liquid cooling and heat recovery. He is co-founder and vice president of Tsingchain Technology (Beijing), where he built and operated immersion and direct-to-chip liquid-cooled compute whose recovered heat was delivered into district heating, greenhouses and aquaculture. Earlier he was a senior product manager at Baidu. He holds an MBA and a bachelor's degree in international economics and trade, writes Every Watt Counts, reviews open liquid-cooling specifications, and is the author of the three-clock model and the ten leak points.

Chenli Wang

Chief Strategy Officer

Chenli leads strategy, partnerships and commercial operations, including the off-take side of heat-reuse projects: identifying heat buyers, structuring supply agreements and aligning them with the return-water grade the plant is designed for. She brings twenty years of general and operational management, most recently in enterprise IT product management at Anhui Shangxin Information Technology, and holds an MBA.

Richard Li

Chief Business Development Officer

Richard leads business development: the operator, developer and channel relationships behind NextGenergy's North American projects, and the qualification of the ones where the whole thermal path — not a single component — is what the customer actually needs. He brings twenty-five years of experience and expertise in ICT business development and management, including head of the AI business unit at NXAI, country manager for Vidyo in China and general manager of the VBU at Avaya China. He holds a bachelor's degree in automation control from CSU.