McDermott International CEO and leadership

David Dickson is President & Chief Executive Officer for McDermott International, Inc., a position he has held since December 2013. David oversees the strategic direction of the Houston-based, $10 billion company. McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, customers have trusted McDermott to design and build end-to-end infrastructure and technology solutions-from the wellhead to the storage tank-to transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today.Prior to McDermott, David spent 11 years with Technip S.A. and its subsidiaries, including as President of Technip U.S.A., Inc., with oversight responsibilities for all of Technip’s North America Operations. He was also Vice President and Operations Manager for Technip U.S.A.’s SURF (Subsea, Umbilicals, Risers and Flowlines) segment. He joined Technip in 2002 with the task of growing the Company’s market position in subsea installation, now the largest subsea company in the Gulf of Mexico.David has nearly 30 years of experience in the offshore oilfield engineering and construction industry holding various management positions in market development, project management, engineering and construction.David is an honors graduate of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering in Naval Architecture.

Bharath Dharmarajan Ganesan is a Chief Engineer - Piping at McDermott International and is based in Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has worked as Senior Assistant Engineer (Piping) at Tata Consulting Engineers, Bangalore, India; Piping Department Manager at KBR, INC.; and Lead Piping Engineer at IDEA, Madras, India. Bharath studied at Indian Institute of Technology/Madras between 1974 and 1979 and Indian Institute of Technology/Madras between 1979 and 1981.

Previous positions include Engineer, Machinery Engineer, Project Engineer, Project Engineering Manager, Principal Estimator, Manager of Estimating.

Extensive experience with re-vamp evaluation.

Majority of experience is Overseas (non-US) project based.

Extensive experience in working in Joint Venture configuration.

Specialties: Conceptual / Reimbursable / Lump Sum Estimating in the Petrochem industry.

Extensive experience in LNG worldwide.

Brian McLaughlin is Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer for McDermott.

Brian joined McDermott in December 2006 as Proposals Manager for J. Ray McDermott Middle East. He has held positions of increasing leadership responsibility, including Vice President, Commercial, Offshore; General Manager, Business Development-Middle East and India; Senior Director, Business Development-Middle East and India; and Proposals Manager, Middle East.

Prior to joining the McDermott team, Brian held positions with several other companies throughout the Middle East and other international locations.

Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering with honors from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.

Carlos Salazar is a Survey Party Chief at McDermott International and is based in San Antonio, Texas. He has worked as Carpenter at AUSTIN INDUSTRIAL INC and Carpenter/Surveyor at CB&I.

Dale Hicks is a Chief Engineer North Ocean 102 at McDermott International.

Darin MacNeill is a Deck Officer at McDermott International and Master, Chief Officer, Senior DPO at McDermott International and is based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. He studied at Montague Regoinal High School between 1981 and 1984 and Holland Marine Training Center between 1990 and 1998.