C. Hunter Cloud

BRG Machinery Consulting, LLC

C. Hunter Cloud is President of BRG Machinery Consulting, LLC, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a company providing a diverse range of rotating machinery technical services. He began his career with Mobil Research and Development Corporation in Princeton, NJ, as a turbomachinery specialist responsible for application engineering, commissioning, and troubleshooting for production, refining and chemical facilities. During his 11 years at Mobil, he worked on numerous projects, including several offshore gas injection platforms in Nigeria as well as serving as reliability manager at a large US refinery. Dr. Cloud received his BS (Mechanical Engineering, 1991) and Ph.D. (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2007) from the University of Virginia. He is a member of ASME, the Vibration Institute, and the API 684 rotordynamics task force. He joined the TAC in September 2012.