meet our team of experts.
Our team
MANAGING DIRECTOR
GAVIN HOUGHTON
Gavin is the founder and Managing Director of RKLAB. Gavin is an experienced senior executive in the energy and natural resource sectors. He has an active interest in industrial technology and a commitment to environmental issues and outcomes.
CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER
RON KUKLER
Ron is the inventor of the RKI technology and it bears his initials. Ron is a certified combustion engineer who has developed and refined the RKI injection technology for over 20 years. Inherently curious and expansive in his vision to create solutions, Ron is at the heart of technology development of RKLAB. Mr. Kukler has won the Australian Inventor of the Year and a Gold Medal at the International Inventors Fair in Geneva for the RKI invention.
CEO, RKLAB, NORTH AMERICA
TREVOR BATES
Trevor has always had the entrepreneurial spirit that has driven him throughout his life. His determination to grow in the fields he is passionate about enables him to successfully build relationships and move projects forward to fruition. He has successfully built substantive businesses in transport and logistics and oil and gas services. He is a motivated individual and uses his well-rounded background to put together inventive solutions to the complex issues surrounding technological commercialisation.
GM, SALES, MARKETING & COMMUNICATION
JOHN SINCLAIR
John has 20+ years as a highly qualified, strategy and performance focused, general manager in the automotive field, across Europe, Southern Africa and Australia. He specialises in start-up business and taking new business and products to market. He is passionate about global warming and sports, continuing these interests and lifestyle, while refining his racquet and barbecue skills from Melbourne.
CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER,
NORTH AMERICA
jim mCcoy
Jim has been interested in combustion engines since his college days, graduating with a Master of Science degree from Rice University in Houston. He refined his expertise developing low emission retrofits for gas pipeline compressor engines. He was instrumental in establishing the Engine and Energy Conversion laboratory at Colorado State University, and is still expanding his expertise into the clean-burn technology area today.
SENIOR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT AND PROJECT MANAGER
professor Bernard Challen
Professor Bernard Challen is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (“SAE”) as well as a member of the Royal Academy of Engineers Professors. He holds a Bachelor in mechanical engineering from Southampton University and a Master's degree in noise and vibration from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research. Professor Challen is a Chartered Engineer in England. Professor Challen is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Principles of Engineering Design at the University of Sussex, England.