As its Chairman and President, he steered Comdisco first as a private
company and, beginning in 1971, as a public one. Later he began
building centers to provide backup processing power to customers with
computers that had been damaged by natural disasters or power failures.
By the 1980's, he had prospered enough to be put on Forbes Magazine's
list of the nation's 400 wealthiest people.
In
1986 the College of Business and Administration at SIU named him its
Entrepreneur of the Year, one of many awards with which Kenneth was
honored during his career.
In 1988 he received the Peat-Marwick High-Tech Entrepreneur Award and was also named Crain's Chicago Business Executive in 1991.