Chris Kapp

Chris has 25+ years experience with nearly all aspects of turbo-machinery in nearly every area of Oil & gas as well as industrial applications. Starting out at Mannesmann Demag in Duisburg and London Chris started up a joint venture company, Demag Kirloskar Compressors Pvt India Ltd. Immigrating to the US and he worked for Cooper Energy Services / Rolls-Royce Energy Systems in Mt. Vernon, OH as a director marketing and director product standardization for gas turbines and centrifugal pipeline compressors. Chris then worked for Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery (O&G) in Houston, TX before moving to Hoerbiger. His time at AFGlobal was spent inducting the company successfully into the 1.8 MW OPRA Gas Turbine market as well as reciprocating compressors for Bio-Gas Chris has numerous publications to his credit and was a taskforce member for API 617/618/688. He is now a published author and his new book, “How to Sell Engineered Products”. Chris studied mechanical & aerospace engineering at the RWTH University Aachen, Germany as well as the NIU in Trondheim, Norway, and completed a masters of science/engineering ( Dipl.-Ing.)