Our Team
The Future of Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management
Vault Security Systems AG brought together a management team of highly motivated experts from various fields to help transform your company’s supply chain management.
Together we are paving the way to build trust in distributed ledger technologies, to fulfill our Vision & Mission and to move from pioneer to global market leader.
Arman Sarhaddar
CEO & Founder
Chairman of the Board
20 years of professional experience in wealth management, worked in several large investment firms in New York, serial entrepreneur in diverse markets, very enthusiastic and passionate personality with outstanding results driven attitude.
The inventor of ivault.
Martin Beyer
CTO
Member of the Board
Innovation-driven leader motivated by working in a team that wants to get things done. Realizing award-winning products in the field of successful mobile apps, color and appearance, virtualization, cloud services, and many others. With 20+ years of experience in leadership and management of multicultural technology and development teams in companies such as Danaher Corporation, 3M, and many others.
Andreas Kündig
CFO
Member of the Board
Economist and Executive Master in Corporate Finance. Investment & Business Case calculations, Post-Merger integration, Change Management, Turnaround and Crisis Management, and Digitization. With 20+ years of experience in IT projects, infrastructure or application management, marketing and commercialization combined with Finance, e.g. as CFO, Controller or Financial Analyst for companies such as SIX (Telekurs), Compaq/HP, Swisscom and others.
Guido Schmitz-Krummacher
CDO
Member of the Board
Served several projects as a certified Swiss Board Member from the very beginning — to name a few: Shape Shift, Cardano, Bancor, Lisk, Wings, Golem, Nimiq, Interchain, and many more. As a qualified lawyer in international and corporate law, he holds an EMBA for Finance & International Management and is a certified Swiss Board Member. His passion is to serve the Blockchain Ecosystem with innovative turn around approaches and painful questions — also as a speaker, at several international conferences.
Lothar Rentschler
CMO
Award-winning, international Chief Marketing Officer with over 25 years’ experience on the agency and customer side (including: Gameforge, Bacardi, ProSiebenSat1, and clients such as Canon, Mercedes Benz, Beiersdorf, DHL). Expert in brand building, marketing structures & processes, Digital Transformation, media & syndication.
Philipp Röhner
R&D Manager
More than 10 years of experience in multicultural environments and interdisciplinary roles. Learned programming at the age of 12 and got a business and legal education in multiple countries. Project manager (IPMA) and Blockchain Certification.
Remy van Donk
Creative & Brand Director
Multidisciplinary creative director with 20+ years of experience. Worked across creative direction, corporate and brand identity, advertising and digital marketing for international clients such as Coca Cola, Red Bull, airbnb, Ernst & Young, bwin, Vistaprint, Siemens, Full Tilt, Schwarzkopf, Bank Austria, Persil, Henkel CEE, and many more.
Patrizia Sinistra
Director Marketing & AI
Smart marketing strategist with a focus on Media Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. 10+ years of experience as an SEO texter and content creator. Vice president and founding member of the board of the Marketing Club Lago, spokesperson for the Marketing Pioneers Germany, technical white paper author for the Marketing Association of Germany. Founded her first marketing agency as a student.
Elischua Burch
Director Digital Marketing
Master in Business Administration, specializing in digital marketing and cryptocurrencies. Founded SatoshiSwiss during the course of the studies, a renowned trading and investment community with more than 1000 dedicated traders on Bybit, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges. With three YouTube channels, he is inspiring a total of 120,000 subscribers.
Dr. Cheng Li
General Agent in China
Study of business and law in China. Doctorate in law undertaken in Germany. 8 years of experience working in international marketing, customer development and support, brand promotion and legal advice for Chinese clients – specializing in digitization for the automotive and consumer industries.
Patrik Hämmerli
Senior Product Manager
Digital Product expert with 10+ years experience in leading Swiss companies with proven track record in building sales and product visions and executing successful results in the media, e-commerce and telecommunication sectors. Executive MBA in Digital Strategy and Performance.
Una Schmitz
Project Manager
Known as a talented marketing and PR consultant, for more than 20 years, Una has been taking on tasks on stakeholder communication with associations and political decision-makers, the development of trade fair concepts, as well as successful event management in central roles for government institutions, agencies, and brands likes DHL.
Kristijan Glibo
Blockchain Expert
A Blockchain Engineer focused on developing decentralized manageable processes. Blockchain Product Designer with extensive knowledge in public and private permissioned blockchain projects. Advisory board member at UBIK – Croatian Union for Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies.
Sava Savic
iOS Blockchain Wallet Developer
An experienced iOS Developer with 10+ years of commercial experience with a master’s degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade. Worked on a variety of projects – in Blockchain Technology Sava has experience building blockchain light SPV wallets with BIP standards. Loves new technologies and is always looking for interesting and challenging projects to work on.
Board of Advisors
Johannes Schweifer
Senior Advisor
Johannes Schweifer holds a Master’s degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Distributed Computing and Quantum Chemistry from the Technical University of Vienna. He is a passionate problem solver and a builder. Known as a serial blockchain entrepreneur, Johannes founded and co-founded several blockchain startups in Crypto Valley. He was co-founder of Bitcoin Suisse AG in 2013 and created its first backbone infrastructure with banking and accounting, actively serving until 2016. In 2017 he founded CoreLedger AG to pursue blockchain ideas beyond financial and speculative use cases. He is actively using blockchain technology to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges – showcasing the true value of blockchain with practical applications.
Thomas Niffeler
Senior Advisor
Passionate Sales & Marketing expert with 25+ years of experience in the IT Full-Service Provider industry building ICT companies and organizations with customer networks, both in large customer and SME environments. Has worked in MedTech and Healthcare, Manufacturing, Public Sector, Transport, and several other industries. His portfolio includes managing key accounts such as Swissair or Gategourmet, developing and implementing corporate strategies, and being responsible for the annual sales budget of several million Swiss francs at SAP.
Laura Sophie Riedl
Social Media
Smart entrepreneur with innovative and dynamic visions paired with results-driven execution. Marketing All-rounder with focus on the digital sector and Corporate Communication. More than 10 years experience in international Marketing & Sales in the areas of classic and new media, Software as a Service and event management.