World-class experts in XBRL, AI, and regulatory disclosure — the team building the world's disclosure infrastructure.
Guido Schmitz Krummacher
President of the Board - Auditchain Labs AG Member of the Board, DCARPE Alliance Association
Guido Schmitz Krummacher
President of the Board - Auditchain Labs AG Member of the Board, DCARPE Alliance Association
Guido Schmitz-Krummacher serves as president of the board of Auditchain Labs. Guido is a Crypto Valley veteran. He is currently a board member of Bancor, Lisk, Liquidapps, Collider AG and Bank ten31. He previously served on the board of Shape Shift, Cardano, Wings, Golem, Nimiq, Interchain, Tezos, Particl Foundation and several others. Guido is educated as a lawyer (International law, corporate law, economist) and a certified Swiss Board Member.
His passion is to serve the Blockchain Ecosystem with innovative approaches and solutions to complex problems.
Thomas Egan, CPA
Board Member - Auditchain Labs AG Charman of the Audit Committee
Thomas Egan, CPA
Board Member - Auditchain Labs AG Charman of the Audit Committee
Thomas Egan is a member of the Board of Directors of Auditchain Labs and Chairman of the Audit Committee. Tom served as the Industry Accounting Technical Expert at the International Air Transport Association in Geneva, Switzerland. He previously was the Global Head of Accounting Advisory at Standard Chartered and Technical Accounting Director at Deloitte where he focused on IFRS and US GAAP.
He is the former Vice-Chair of the IASB’s Taxonomy Consultative Group and has been actively involved in XBRL for over 20 years. Tom has served on several global forums and committees on financial reporting. He is a licensed CPA in the US, and is a member of ACCA, CPA Australia and ISCA (Singapore).
Tom holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Marquette University, a master’s degree in accounting, information systems and international business from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a postgraduate diploma in strategic finance from the University of Oxford.
David Blaszkowsky
David Blaszkowsky
David is the head of Strategic Policy and Planning for Auditchain Labs AG.
David is a recognized expert on financial sector data, standards, and strategy. David was the founding Director of the US Securities & Exchange Commission’s Office of Interactive Disclosure in 2007, where he initiated and ran the SEC’s pioneering development, enactment, and implementation of XBRL as the standard for financial reporting for United States companies. He engaged with dozens of jurisdictions, including the EU to develop their own digital reporting regimes. At the SEC Office of Financial Research, David was involved in some of the earliest evaluations of crypto currencies and blockchain.
David helped stand up the US’ first financial data agency, the Office of Financial Research at the US Treasury and led the creation of other critical financial sector standards, including the Legal Entity Identifier (ISO 17442), and chaired the US Financial Sector Oversight Committee’s Data Committee. Mr. Blaszkowsky also has deep experience as a strategist, having served at McKinsey & Co., Gemini, and PwC. David served as Director, FinTech and Innovation at the Division of Banks, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He also served as the data strategy and governance executive in publishing at McGraw-Hill and S&P as well as similar roles at State Street., and has been involved with industry consortia.
David holds a BA in economics from the University of Chicago, an MBA from Northwestern University.
Jason Meyers
Lead Architect - Auditchain Labs AG
Jason Meyers
Lead Architect - Auditchain Labs AG
Lead Architect
Jason Meyers is the lead architect and the inventor of Pacioli.ai. Jason has broad based investment banking and venture capital experience. Having served for 30 years on the sell side, buy side and the issuer side, Jason brings a significant amount of real-world use case and business experience to the Blockchain space. Jason led hundreds of initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and private placements in a broad range of industries including biotech and healthcare, technology, software and financial services. He took public Alexion Pharmaceuticals which was acquired by AstraZeneca for $40 billion, Medarex, Inc which was acquired by Bristol Myers for $2.5 billion, VCA which was acquired by Mars, Inc. for $9 billion and many others.
Jason founded ICM Capital Markets Ltd., one of the first FinTech investment banks in 2008. He built the world’s first regulatory compliant multi-jurisdictional automated equity compensation plan administration infrastructure platform. His clients included Facebook, Kayak, Steve Madden, Rowan Cos and SIMS Metal Management. Jason also built one of the first automated quantitative XBRL based fundamental research platforms which provided actionable research on over 11,000 public companies around the world.
Jason has chaired audit committees for private and public companies. His experience lends a substantial amount of insight into the architecture of Auditchain.
Jason began incubating Pacioli.ai in April 2017 after a long and extensive observation of what he believed to be significant deficiencies in traditional audit standards and financial reporting practices. Jason believed that the field of accounting, audit and financial reporting was ripe for disruption when he first read Ian Grigg’s theory of triple entry accounting. Jason spends a significant amount of his time examining the complexities, dislocations and time lag between transaction occurrence, recording, treatment and reporting. His findings led him to the preliminary conclusion that current regulatory disclosure frameworks are not sufficient for digital assets. His work is shaping the architecture of solutions that he believes will lead to new standards of transparency and frequency of reporting in the field of accounting, audit and disclosure.
Charlie Hoffman, CPA
Product Manager - Auditchain Labs AG
Charlie Hoffman, CPA
Product Manager - Auditchain Labs AG
Charles Hoffman is a CPA and a former auditor. He is a product manager and lead architect of the financial reporting rules engine and financial model validation engine products for Auditchain Labs AG.
Charlie is widely considered the “Godfather of xBRL” (eXtensible Business Reporting Language). Charlie received the AICPA’s 2006 Special Recognition Award at the Institute’s National Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments in Washington, D.C. The award recognized Charlie’s contributions to the development of XBRL, a global standard for the communication of business information.
Charlie conceived the idea of using XML to structure financial statements and with developing the initial XBRL prototype. He was formerly the director of innovative solutions at UBmatrix, a software company based in Kirkland, Wash. He has since consulted for and architected digital financial reporting systems for a significant number of the digital financial reporting software vendors in the world.
Charlie, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), brought the idea of what was to become XBRL to the AICPA. Charlie is author of the books XBRL for Dummies, XBRL Essentials (a non-technical guide to XBRL), and Financial Reporting Using XBRL: IFRS and US GAAP Edition (a comprehensive guide to using XBRL in financial reporting). He was co-editor of the first XBRL taxonomy. He played a major role in creating the taxonomy for financial reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). He participated on the project to create the US GAAP Taxonomy and the US GAAP Taxonomy Architecture. He was a member of both the XBRL Specification and Domain Working Groups as XBRL 2.1 was being created. Charlie is co-author of the “Financial Reporting Taxonomies Architecture” (FRTA) 1.0 specification, the “Financial Reporting Instance Standards” and a significant contributor to the XBRL 2.1 specification.
Prior to his involvement with XBRL, Charlie served as an auditor for what was then Price Waterhouse, as financial officer for a number of companies, and as an accounting software implementation consultant. In 1997, Charlie was the recipient of the AICPA Innovative User of Technology award. He was named by Accounting Technology as one of the one hundred most influential people in the accounting profession.
Charlie is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) with both a BA in Business Administration with a concentration in accounting and an MBA with a focus on management information systems and world class manufacturing techniques. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from PLU in 2007.
Fuad Begic
Lead Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Fuad Begic
Lead Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Fuad is a software architect and full stack developer for Auditchain Labs AG.
His experience is based on SupTech system for data collection, risk-based supervision, validation and analysis of regulatory and statistical data.
Since of 2010 he works on versus applications for collecting data from financial organizations, mostly in RegTech industry, which implies building applications for monitoring and supervisory reporting.
As a head of team for Regulatory institution he developed comprehensive information system for data collections and efficient supervisory reporting mostly for financial entities. He also developed the tool which identifies and monitoring the risks which include the modul for Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process known as SREP.
He found the Areport, the first open-source web application which allows you to create an XBRL instance based on XBRL taxonomy which is created by DPM ISO model.
Bob McElrath PhD.
Applied Cryptography - Full Stack Engineer
Bob McElrath PhD.
Applied Cryptography - Full Stack Engineer
Bob serves in the capacity of applied cryptography for Auditchain Labs AG.
Bob is a theoretical physicist having worked at CERN and authored over 30 papers on particle physics. He ran the BitDevs Whitepaper Wednesday meetup in New York City for several years which focused on the examination of cryptography papers.
Bob began working on Bitcoin in 2011. From 2015 to 2017 he served as the CTO of SolideX, the first company to file with the SEC for a spot Bitcoin ETF. From 2017 until 2020 he was the lead wallet architect for Fidelity Digital Assets as well as a member of their FCAT research lab. Bob has performed software development for a number of companies in the space including Custodia Bank.
Miguel Calejo, PhD
Full Stack Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Miguel Calejo, PhD
Full Stack Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Miguel is a lead engineer and is the developer of the Company’s digital financial reporting rules processing and validation products. Miguel runs InterProlog Consulting (interprolog.com), which is dedicated to the application of artificial intelligence tools to real world problems, serving customers in the USA and UK. He’s also CTO and co-founder of the upcoming startup Logical contracts (logicalcontracts.com).
Over the years he has developed a number of applications, user interface generators and logic programming environment tools.
Miguel has a degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Porto and a PhD in Computer Science/AI from New University of Lisbon, with a thesis on declarative logic program debugging. Miguel received the IBM Portugal Prize in 1990 and the Microsoft portugal/web 3rd prize 2000. Miguel founded Servisoft (www.servisoft.pt, a distributor of computer products, Declarativa, a consultancy and software development company, BookMARC (software for libraries), Coherent Knowledge Systems coherentknowledge.com , USA, for advanced AI tools and Renting Point www.rentingpoint.pt, portal for B2B and B2C renting. Miguel has taught Java and web development at Universidade Portucalense and Universidade do Minho, north Portugal. He served as President of the Portuguese AI Association, 2012-2015 (appia.pt) and is a member of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG17 (Prolog standardization) group.
Jacinto Dávila, PhD
Full Stack Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Jacinto Dávila, PhD
Full Stack Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Jacinto is a senior knowledge engineer and a full stack developer for Auditchain Labs AG. He is also involved in the design and development of the upcoming startup Logical Contracts (logicalcontracts.com)’s MVP: Logical English.
Jacinto has a degree in System Engineering from University of Los Andes and a PhD in Logic and AI from Imperial College, London, with a thesis on Agents in Logic Programming. He is also a retired tenure from University of Los Andes, Venezuela.
Bogdan Fiedur
Full Stack Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Bogdan Fiedur
Full Stack Engineer - Auditchain Labs AG
Bogdan is a full stack developer and entrepreneur. Bogdan is the lead Ethereum engineer for Auditchain Labs AG. Since the beginning of 2016 he has been engaged in “Smart Contract” design and implementation for Ethereum, using Solidity. He is knowledgeable in all aspects of e-commerce development, back-end and front-end. Bogdan is experienced in configuring and operating network environments. He has supervised teams of developers, preparing technical design documents, preparing testing plans and integrating existing applications with newer technologies. He brings with him over 25 years of software engineering experience.
Jonathan has been an adviser to the project since its inception. Jonathan is an expert in the field of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology use case analysis. He has acted in the capacity of strategic planning and development for many projects. Jonathan was a founding contributor to Ethereum in January 2014. He was also an original contributing member of ConsensYs, an Ethereum development studio as well as an original contributing member to Factom and EOS. Jonathan leads BitcoinNYC, one of the largest Blockchain meetups in New York City.
Graham Gal PhD
Advisor - Auditchain Labs AG, Internal Controls and XBRL Expert. Professor of AIS, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts
Graham Gal PhD
Advisor - Auditchain Labs AG, Internal Controls and XBRL Expert. Professor of AIS, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts
Dr. Graham Gal is an advisor to the Project. Dr Gal is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Isenberg School of Management in the Department of Accounting. Currently he is on the editorial board for the Journal of Information Systems, the Journal of Forensic and Investigative Accounting, and The International Journal of Auditing Technology. He has served as editor for special issues on cybersecurity and cloud computing.
Previously he served as the associate editor for design science for the Journal of Emerging Technologies. His research interests include business ontologies, specification of internal controls, continuous monitoring, continuous reporting, organizational security policies, corporate social responsibility impact on financial performance, and controls for sustainability reporting.
Dr. Gal has recently been a speaker at the BITS 2019 Technology Conference in Nanjing, China, the workshop of Value Modeling and Business Ontologies at Stockholm University, the International Conference on Governance, Fraud, Ethics, and Social Responsibility Trakya University, and at MODAV in Istanbul. He has presented his work as a visiting scholar at University of Ghent, St. Louis Université in Brussels, Chuo University in Tokyo, the University Of Sao Paulo, Trento University, Free University of Amsterdam, Rutgers University, as a panelist on cybersecurity at the University of Waterloo’s conference on information assurance, and at the Accounting Blockchain Coalition’s meetings.
His work has been published in a number of journals including; Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Decision Sciences, Sustainability Account, Management, and Policy Journal, Expert Systems Review, Expert Systems, Journal of Information Systems, The Information Systems Control Journal, Advances in Accounting Information Systems. The International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, the International Journal of Accounting and Information Management, and the Journal of Management Control.
Nick Page
Advisor - Auditchain Labs AG Ex PwC Partner Council Member - ICAEW Sustainability Committee Member
Nick Page
Advisor - Auditchain Labs AG Ex PwC Partner Council Member - ICAEW Sustainability Committee Member
Nick is a member of the ICAEW Council. The majority of Nick’s career was in practice with PwC as a partner in the Transaction Services business. Since leaving practice Nick has been CEO of a family office and CFO of a fintech company.
