Robert J. Burger is an experienced director of both public and private companies, bringing an engineer’s pragmatic approach to enterprise risk management and strategy. His expertise includes global industrial services, capital equipment manufacturing, power generation, clean energy, and marine businesses. His significant governance contributions include navigating sweeping regulatory changes and market-driven product design pivots; business rebranding; investment thesis and gap analysis development; strategic review of major acquisition targets, integration, and exit options; and cyberattack response and recovery.

Burger currently serves on the boards of Fairbanks Morse Defense, Rotating Machinery Services, and the NACD Northwest Chapter. Previously he served on the boards of Victory Energy, including on the audit committee, and Ocean Power Technologies, a pioneer in wave energy, where he chaired both the compensation and risk committees and served as a financial expert. He has been an NACD Board Leadership Fellow since 2017.

Burger’s executive roles include president and CEO of MAN Diesel & Turbo North America (now Everllence), the world’s leading provider of engines for ships and power stations and a top provider of turbomachinery for oil and gas, chemical, and industrial applications; and both president and managing director with LM Wind Power, the world’s largest provider of wind turbine blades and service. His earlier professional experience includes leading GE Energy’s worldwide gas turbine product service business and serving in the US Navy, both at sea and later leading shipyard engineering, repair, and modification projects, including nuclear power and underwater salvage.

Burger holds both a master of science and a master of engineering in mechanical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, where he completed the initial design of the San Antonio class of ships, and he earned a bachelor of science in ocean engineering from the US Naval Academy. Burger has lived in South Africa, Japan, the Netherlands, and throughout the United States and has operated throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.