Eric J. Olson
Director of Sales & Marketing

Mr. Olson is a recognized leader in the turbomachinery industry, with over 25 years of experience in both technical and business development capacities. He is a senior member of MSI’s staff, directing technical duties as Principal Engineer, as well as functioning a s MSI’s Director of Sales and Marketing. Eric’s present areas of focus include turbomachinery troubleshooting, turbomachinery design and analysis, nonlethal munitions development, and biomedical device evaluation services.

In a previous position at Concepts NREC, Eric and his staff established a space propulsion turbomachinery design and development business. In addition to all aspects of sales and marketing, his responsibilities included strategic planning, coordination with engineering and manufacturing groups, and liaison with congressional staffers. Other business focus areas included design and analysis of centrifugal pumps and compressors, gas and steam turbines, air dynamometers, (for testing of turboshaft gas turbines), and automotive fan clutches.

Prior to Concepts NREC, Eric worked at Ingersoll-Dresser Pump (now Flowserve) for 10 years as a Field Engineer (where he gained hands-on knowledge of the mechanical and hydraulic components and issues in high performance engineered pumps), Sales Engineer, and eventually Regional Manager. For four of those years, he was Dresser Pump’s Aftermarket Regional Manager based in Chicago with responsibility for all parts, repairs, and revamps for the western half of North America.

Eric is a graduate of California Maritime Academy where he earned a BS in Marine Engineering, and has an unlimited horsepower 3rd Assistant Engineers Merchant Marine license for vessels using diesel, steam turbine, and gas turbine propulsion systems. As a Marine Engineer, Eric benefits from hands-on exposure to all types of rotating machinery, as well as from the pressure situations of “make what you have work” when you are hundreds of miles out to sea. He is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Vibration Institute, and is MSI’s primary technical liaison with the Hydraulic Institute, for whom Eric (on behalf of MSI) is a Standards Partner. He is a multi-year short course speaker at the Texas A&M International Pump Symposium.