Our Experts

 

 

Klaus Brun

Turbomachinery Fundamentals
Klaus Brun is the manager for rotating machinery at Southwest Research Institute (SWRI: San Antonio, TX). Brun is a past chairman of the ASME-IGTI Oil & Gas Committee and currently a member of the IGTI Board of Directors.

 

Leonid Moroz SoftIn Way  

Leonid Moroz

Design & Concept
Leonid Moroz is the Founder & CEO of SoftInWay and has over 30 years experience in turbomachinery designing flow path for gas turbines up to 115MW and steam turbines up to 1000MW. At SoftInWay, he leads the development of AxSTREAM, the “gold standard” software suite for conceptual design and optimization of turbomachinery, and advises the consulting team on turbomachinery design projects.

 

Greg Livingstone

Lubrication
Greg Livingstone is the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Technology for Fluitec International. He has been involved with lubrication contamination control and condition monitoring for the entirety of his career with a special focus on power generation applications.

 

 

Richard (Chip) Thompson II

Legal Topics
Richard (Chip) Thompson II is the founder-partner of Mercer Thompson LLC, a boutique law firm providing top-tier transactional legal services to companies in the electrical power industry. For over fifteen years, Thompson has represented energy companies in their development, acquisition and sale, and ownership and operation of electric power projects on a worldwide basis (including in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East).

 

 

Richard Thomas

Vibration and Machinery Diagnostics
Richard Thomas has 35 years of rotating equipment experience in industry and currently holds the position of Global Services Manager for Metrix Instrument Company. Prior to his current position, his work experience included 11 years as a rotating equipment engineer in the petrochemical industry; 17 years in the Engineering Services Department of Bently Nevada Corporation; and 6 years as the Global Services Manager for RoMaDyn Corporation.
 

Joe Wilkes

Bearings & Rotordynamics
Joseph Wilkes is Kingsbury's Vice President of Engineering. He is currently responsible for overseeing all aspects of the engineering department, including bearing design, analysis, troubleshooting, research and development, and testing. Wilkes has traveled around the world to give technical presentations and troubleshoot bearing problems.

 

 

Phil Dawson

Materials and Repair
Phillip Dowson is General Manager Materials Engineering with the Elliott Group in Jeannette, Pennsylvania and has 38 years of experience in the turbomachinery industry. He is responsible for the metallurgical and welding engineering for various Elliott product lines within the company.

 

 

Amin Almasi

Amin Almasi is senior rotating equipment consultant in Australia. He currently holds the position of lead rotating machine engineer for WorleyParsons (Brisbane). He is chartered professional engineer from Engineers Australia and IMechE and registered professional engineer in Australia and Queensland (M.Sc. and B.Sc. in mechanical engineering). He specializes in rotating equipment, condition monitoring and reliability.

 

 

Frank Kushner 

Frank Kushner is an independent Consulting Engineer specializing in dynamics and acoustics testing and analysis. He has had 42 years of experience with industrial turbomachinery, mostly with the Elliott Company, and four years previous experience with the jet engine combustion section development group at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Mr. Kushner holds patents for a blade damping mechanism and a method to prevent a one-cell rotating stall in centrifugal compressors.