Tom Curley has served as President of the energy
business since January 2002. He is a member of
the Company’s Group Executive management
team, and sits on the Boards of Directors for
Rolls -Royce Fuel Cell Systems and the Rolls Wood
Group of Aberdeen, Scotland. His background includes
over 25 years of increasingly-responsible leadership
with four world-class corporations: Rolls-Royce,
Cooper Cameron, Caterpillar and General Electric.
With global manufacturing, sales, and service
facilities, the energy business, headquartered
northeast of Columbus in Mount Vernon, Ohio,
provides leading-technology gas compression
and power generation equipment and service support
to customers in nearly 80 countries. With over
2,200 employees, the business achieved turnover
of approximately US$1.4 billion in 2006. Prior
to his current position, Curley served as President
of Oil & Gas for the Rolls-Royce energy
business.
From 1997-1999, Curley was Vice-President and
General Manager of the Rotating Products segment
of Cooper Energy Services, a division of Cooper
Cameron Corporation. Curley successfully managed
sales and marketing support of the 50/50 joint
venture company between Cooper Cameron and Rolls-Royce,
Cooper Rolls. In 1999, Rolls-Royce purchased
the Rotating Products segment of Cooper Energy
Services, and Curley managed the integration
of the two companies to form the foundation
of the Rolls-Royce energy business.
From 1995-1997, Curley was General Manager
for the worldwide hydraulic business of Caterpillar
Inc. Here, he developed new product introduction
strategies that established product teams to
drastically reduce cost and support the Company’s
transition to electro hydraulic components.
Curley started his career in 1979 with the
General Electric Company. Over the course of
the next 15 years, he progressed through increasingly
responsible roles within the GE businesses encompassing
12 different roles in seven locations.
In 1991, he was named Product Line Manager
with global marketing, engineering and manufacturing
integration responsibility for GE’s advanced-technology
gas turbine for power generation applications.
In 1993, he was appointed General Manager of
GE Power Delivery, responsible for strategic
direction and financial performance of this
global provider of electrical utility-sized
power transformers.
Curley holds an Associates Degree in Aeronautical
Engineering from Daniel Webster College in Nashua,
New Hampshire, and a Bachelor of Science Degree
in Industrial Technology from the University
of Massachusetts at Lowell.
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