About Us

Jaroslava Kacina

Chairman, CEO of Equidato Technologies AG

Jaroslav Kacina is a technology innovation and business transformation executive, with over 22 years of proven track record in delivering on technology transformation promises.

Jaroslav is currently a CEO and Co-founder of Equidato Technologies AG, newly established Swiss firm primarily focused on bringing blockchain innovation into B2B space.  Additionally, Jaroslav is a Managing partner at Swiss based SAP Innovation firm Venaco Group.

Between 2015 to 2017, Jaroslav was a Senior Vice President at McKinsey & Co in London RTS team, special unit of the McKinsey assisting leading international organizations in complex business recovery and transformation initiatives.

From 2010, he became a Vice President for global SAP Business transformation program at Alstom, to implement single ERP system across more than 200 units in more than 35 countries.  In 2008, he joined Alstom Power in Switzerland as a Global Director of IT.

Working at Ernst & Young and Deloitte for 10 years (1998-2008) he was instrumental in many large-scale technology and innovation programs for leading companies internationally.

Martyn Harler

Co-founder, CTO of Equidato Technologies AG

Martyn Harler is a technology innovator with over 20 years’ experience Architecting, Designing and Deploying cutting edge technology solutions and Managing a number of companies’ technology vision.

Recently, Martyn founded Octocloud, a Swiss based solution providing SAP Business One cloud on HANA. The ERP solution is available as a ‘SaaS’ on subscription basis and targeted primarily for small and medium size enterprises. It is currently being extended with blockchain capabilities.

From 2010, Martyn worked for Alstom AG in Switzerland, as the technical architect and manager for the implementation of SAP Business One to the Power, Grid and Transportation businesses in Finland, Estonia, Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt and Israel.

Prior to working for Alstom, Martyn worked for Airwave UK on Britain’s government projects for the Police, Ambulance and Fire Service.

Kok Weng Choo

Platform Development Lead and APAC Lead Equidato Technologies AG

Choo has more than 15 years of experience in international SAP and technology innovation projects for various industries. He has worked for companies like General Electric, Alstom, ABeam, and many others. During his over 10 years in Consulting at ABeam, he delivered SAP and IT projects for companies including Petronas, Hitachi, Sato Malaysia, Maxis, Kao, and Felda.

For a Swiss based Alstom Power, later GE, he was a global manager for SAP support and overall manager for all APAC activities, overseeing deployment in countries including Malaysia, Singapore, China, Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and others.

In addition to being the Equidato SophiaTX blockchain platform development lead, he also is responsible for regional activities in Asia Pacific. He is also a Managing Director of Venaco Group APAC region, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.