Prior to RCI GT Inc., John served as the Senate confirmed CFO of the Department of Energy. Concurrently, John was appointed by the President as acting Director of DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E). John’s business experiences include positions within aerospace/defense, management consulting, energy, high-technology, telecommunications, and alternative investments. From 2002 – 2009, John served at the Department of Defense, culminating as acting Assistant Air Force Secretary, where he also performed the duties of the Under Secretary. In 2000, John was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives. He holds BS and MBA degrees from Fordham University, and an MIPP degree from The Johns Hopkins University (SAIS). John is a retired Colonel in the Army Reserve with 34 years’ service in special operations. He has lectured at the U.S. Military Academy and advised the Army Cyber Institute. John is an advisor to the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, GAMCO Inc., among others.

Dr. Auner is Strauss Endowed Chair Professor, with appointments in the Department of Surgery, the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Department of Physics at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He is the founder and director of the Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems (SSIM) program at WSU which has 8 laboratories with over 100 participating faculty, graduate students, and staff scientists/engineer researchers. He is Director of Research for the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, Scientist in Neurosurgery Department at Henry Ford Health systems, and a faculty member in Karmanos Cancer Institute. He has led extensive research for the Department of Defense, NASA, the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. He has been principal investigator on more than $60 million in research grants and contracts. He has over 40 patents for chemical, biomedical, and environmental sensing, bio implants, and microsystem labs-on-a-chip. He has over 300 peer reviewed publications and over 8000 citations. Dr. Auner was appointed to the National Academies Board on Manufacturing Design and Engineering in 2004. He is also the Co-Founder of Venica, LLC, and co-founder and Chief Science & Technical Officer at Seraph Biosciences and Visca, LLC - Wayne State University spin-off companies.

Dr. John Rather is the creator of many breakthrough technology concepts and resulting major programs. His problem-solving innovations at three National Laboratories led to high-level leadership positions in Washington DC as a VP in aerospace business and in the U.S. Government Senior Executive Service at NASA HQ. The illness of his dear wife led him to serve as Director of Innovation and Development at a Comprehensive Cancer Center in Michigan before returning to Oak Ridge, TN to found two small businesses that specialize in both private-sector and government-sponsored innovations. These two companies, RCIG, Inc. and Sisyphus Energy, Inc. are now joining the new Holding Company, RCI Global Technologies, Inc. Many details of Dr. Rather’s accomplishments are included in the accompanying corporate website links. He obtained his B.S. in physics from the U. Tennessee, Knoxville & MS & PhD in Astronomy from U. California, Berkeley.

Jim Rushton is a senior technical consultant for the Department of Energy, universities and private companies on nuclear fuel, isotope separation and advanced reactors. He has a B.A. degree from Wabash College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a graduate of the Indiana Executive Program from the I.U. Kelley School of Business. He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in 1974 as a staff scientist on high-temperature reactor fuels. Later he was Director of Operations Analysis and Planning for the Department of Energy’s gaseous diffusion plants which provided fuel for the US Navy fleet and for nuclear power reactors globally. He held leadership roles in development of gas centrifuge, laser and plasma isotopic separation processes. In 1992 he led a team to establish Martin Marietta Utility Systems, Inc., a new corporate division for operation of the $1.5 billion/yr uranium enrichment enterprise. In 2004 as Director of the Nuclear Science and Technology Division at ORNL, he led an organization of 300 in the development of advanced space and power reactor designs, robotics, non-proliferation technologies and radioisotopes for industry, space power and cancer immunotherapy. Jim is active on community boards and is a Commissioner & Board Secretary of Oak Ridge Natural Gas, a state-chartered utility.

Gray Mayes is retired from Texas Instruments where she served as the Corporate Director of Government Relations.   She has chaired the Boards of the Texas Association of Manufacturers, the Texas Association of Business and the North Texas Commission. Gray was the first woman to serve as the Chair of the Board of the YMCA of Metropolitan Dallas in its 128 year history. She was a member of Boards for the North Texas Regional Center for Commercialization and Innovation and the World Affairs Council of Dallas; and was appointed by former Governor Rick Perry to his Competitiveness Council which provided recommendations on policies to grow the Texas Economy. Gray co-served on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board committee to design its next 15 year strategic plan. Prior to Texas Instruments, she worked in Washington for members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona.