John McCarthy is the director – Energy at David Brown. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, spanning a rich range of backgrounds and engineering disciplines both in the field and in global operations for companies including BOC and Edwards Vacuum. His particular areas of expertise include API specified high-speed gearing for oil and gas industry applications involving pumps, compressors and turbo generators.McCarthy leads company strategy in the oil and gas and power generation industries for David Brown, which has recently focused on the development of a new, high-speed gearbox series—HX. For more information about the HX series of gearboxes and David Brown’s full product suite, visit www.davidbrown.com.