Our Story

Our founders met 27 years ago at high school in Singapore and reconnected seven years ago when they both found themselves living in Amsterdam. vPatina is driven by their shared passion for art and belief that, if harnessed properly, technology can empower all artists and curators.

vPatina's technology is built around their expertise in the core areas of business strategy; data-driven relationship building; database management; transaction management and programming.

This fusion of passion and expertise allows vPatina to offer you something unique; advanced tools designed around the real-world needs of galleries and artists.

If you wish to inquire about the technology please contact us by e-mail, we will come back to you as soon as possible.



OUR TEAM




Rahul Sriskanthan

Strategy & Growth

Understanding an Evolving Market

Rahul has decades of experience working in strategy, marketing, publicity and sales. During four years working in Business Strategy for the Monitor Company in London, he was trained in the same marketing methodolgy used by Cadburys and Coke. Prior to joining Monitor he worked for the British Government as a press officer, for HSBC as a stockmarket analyst and for Bloomberg News as a stockmarket reporter.

During more than a decade spent working and living in the creative hub of Hackney in East London, he was able to indulge his passion for art, and developed a lasting network of friends in the creative industries; artists, gallery owners, photographers and film makers. When not working on vPatina Rahul splits his time between making documentaries and losing arguments with his daughters.

Rahul has an Msc and Bsc in Economics from the London School of Economics.



Kjetil Larsen

Innovation & Technology

Impact Through Innovation

For the past decade Kjetil has run a company that runs a reservation engine for apartments in Amsterdam, managing large amounts of transactions. Prior to this he worked as the EMEA manager for Ariba until it went public and before that worked for a Norwegian IT company and was a platoon leader for the Tactical Digital Communication Network in the Norwegian Army. He has also done consulting work in Oslo, Napa, and San Francisco.

Since escaping the corporate world in 2002, Kjetil has been able to spend time helping friends who are artists make their websites. When not working on vPatina Kjetil indulges in his passions for indie music concerts and Tae Kwon Do.

Kjetil has a BSc from Stanford University in Symbolic System and spent two more years at Stanford at the Master's program in Computer Science.