The VROC Team

The People behind VROC

Behind every great product there is a team hard at work, making it all possible - and VROC is no exception.

Get to know our teams in Australia, South East Asia, the United Kingdom, Norway and Pakistan and The Middle East

head office (Australia)

From our headoffice in Perth, Western Australia, our development and executive teams work with partners, clients and distributors across the globe

Trevor Bloch

Group Chief Executive Officer

One of the driving forces behind VROC, founder and CEO Trevor Bloch is able to combine his extensive experience working in traditional consulting engineering and tech startups to provide the company with the vision it needs to succeed in this new field of industrial information technology. A determined leader, Trevor is always looking for ways in which VROC can push the envelope and deliver their clients results that far exceed their expectations.

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Jennifer Reyes

Group Chief Operating Officer

An extremely experienced Director of Operations with extensive background in IT & services as well as the petroleum, energy, strategic planning and oil & gas industries, Jennifer plays a vital part in ensuring that the VROC machine keeps running smoothly and is able to consistently grow and develop.

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Harry Bloch

Group Chief Financial Officer

A CPA qualified professional with decades of experience working in the oil, gas & resources industries in Australia and South-East Asia, Harry has the in-depth understanding of finance, industry and cutting-edge technology necessary to ensure that VROC is able to work closely with our clients, understand their financial needs and ensure that we’re delivering them with the best possible outcomes.

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Arvind Chetty

Business Development

Arvind brings to the VROC team 4 decades of energy industry experience. With an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Arvind has held technical roles worldwide for companies including SCANA Corporation and Schlumberger, following which he switched focus to Business Development. Arvind is actively involved in the oil and gas community, mentoring graduates and students along with being the previous Vice-Chairman of Subsea Energy Australia and a committee member of the SPE-WA. Arvind is passionate about solving client process and reliability problems using VROC’s innovative AI technology.

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MEGAN FINKELDE

Global Marketing Manager

With a broad advertising, brand and digital marketing background, Megan is has joined VROC as Global Marketing Manager. Having worked across a wide spectrum of industries and amongst start-ups, state and local government as well as large corporates, Megan is the powerhouse behind the VROC brand. If you have a media enquiry, an event or conference invitation or content request, she can assist.

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VROC South East Asia

Juarez Salih Lowe

Chief Executive Officer, VROC South East Asia

Juarez has over 20 years of experience in law, sales and marketing and developing businesses. He has been involved in consumer analytics working with companies such as Mitsubishi, Mercedes Benz, Johnson & Johnson and BMW as well as luxury watch brands. With the power of AI analytics, he is able to transfer that knowledge to machine analytics. Under his leadership, VROC South East Asia is currently working with an established oil and gas multinational to use big data for a truly predictive maintenance solution. He and his team have also expanded to Asia, Europe and the Middle East and are responsible for the growth of predictive maintenance solution versus a condition based/parameter monitoring system.

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AIK LEONG

Chief Operating Officer, VROC South East Asia

With over 20 years of high technology transfer experience across APAC from design to full implementation, Aik is well versed with all aspects of ensuring a successful deployment. One of his key strengths is the ability to work cross culture and the ability to understand and adapt to the needs of the clients. His working experience encompasses various geographical locations from Malaysia to Costa Rica, from USA to China.

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VROC UK

Ian Anderson

Chief Executive Officer, VROC UK

Ian is an experienced director with a demonstrated history of working in many industries. Skilled in Negotiation, Sales, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Management, and Account Management he heads up the VROC UK office, leading the charge to bring digital transformation to companies across the UK.

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Jonathan Cowie

Business Development Manager, VROC UK

A highly motivated and enthusiastic Business Development & Sales Manager based in Aberdeen covering the UK, Europe and Middle East Regions. Jonathan's key role and responsibility is to open new areas of business in the field of Artificial Intelligence across all Energy Sectors, with a focus on companies that are looking to significantly reduce operating costs through technology that allows them to view the overall health of their assets in real time thus allowing them to make better business decisions.

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Joe Ross

Business Development Consultant, VROC UK

A highly adept and proven entrepreneur & Business Development Consultant, Joe brings quantified business experience in his role. His role with VROC is to establish and open new areas of business across all energy sectors, Smart Cities, batch operators, chemical, aerospace & defence. Joe's focus is around using VROC's technology to offer a better insight of the overall health of assets in real time, thus allowing businesses to make huge savings in operational processes and better their business decisions annually to give clients a competitive advantage for their market.

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VROC Norway

Ådne Tveit

Business Development Consultant, VROC Norway

Aadne is a senior professional, with 37 years experience from the Computer and Information business. After finishing his degree at Ohio State University, he started his career in IBM. Since then, he has had several management and commercial positions at larger and smaller software providers over the years, including BMC, Oracle and Epsis. Also, he had his own solution provider company for a decade, making dozens of enterprises more effective. For the last 10 years, he has promoted solutions within Integrated Operations globally, creating high performance teams for his clients.

The focus has always been to make technology more applicable, easier to use and giving rapid value to the user. Aadne's ability to communicate with progrogrammers, management, user communities and finance has led to many succcessful projects over the years.

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VROC Pakistan and The Middle East

Zaki Bakhteyar

Authorized Representative
Zaki Bakhteyar, based in Islamabad, Pakistan, is the founder of EnerTech Consulting (ETC) as well as VROC’s Authorized Representative for Pakistan and the Middle East. He has over 35 years of international experience in the oil and gas industry.
Zaki spent 25 years with Schlumberger, the world’s largest service provider for the oil and gas industry. He took several international assignments in the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East. He held successively senior positions in the Data Consulting, Operations, and Sales & Marketing teams at Schlumberger and has developed subject matter expertise in O&G data collection, handling, and analytics.

Following his time at Schlumberger, Zaki joined Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, where he spent 10 years leading the planning and implementation of Aramco’s Intelligent Fields and Centers that are used to remotely monitor and control production at oil fields across Saudi Arabia.

Zaki’s deep experience in a data intensive industry means he recognizes the value of efficiently gathering and processing large datasets from heavily instrumented industrial settings and delivering actionable insights to business leaders. He is always on the lookout for intelligent tools and technologies like the VROC platform that help businesses surface incremental value.

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