Built by People Who Lived the Problem
Cyoda was built by engineers who spent careers inside the regulated systems that run global finance — at LCH, Dresdner Kleinwort, Westpac, Macquarie, and Intesa Sanpaolo. Every part of the platform answers a problem we hit there.
THE TEAM
The Founders
Patrick Stanton
CEO & Co-Founder
30+ years building core systems for global investment banks. LCH Automated Brokerage Service. Dresdner Kleinwort fixed income settlement (Frankfurt). Westpac FX (Sydney). Macquarie treasury and equity derivatives — live during the GFC. Intesa Sanpaolo (Milan). Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds. Co-founded Cyoda in 2012. London.
Paul Schleger PhD
CTO & Co-Founder
PhD experimental physicist (UBC). Research fellow and scientist at European national laboratories. 25+ years in regulated banking as IT project manager, including engineering and platform transformation lead at European banks and financial institutions — Helaba, LBBW, Dresdner Kleinwort, and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland — Finanzagentur. Co-architect of the Cyoda EDBMS. Co-founded Cyoda in 2012. Vancouver.
HISTORY
Company Timeline
- 2012
Cyoda founded
- 2015
Platform feature-complete with core architectural innovations in place
- 2017
First production deployment (VC Trade, European private-debt market)
- 2025
Cyoda Cloud live beta launched
- 2026
Release of cyoda-go — digital twin of the scalable Cyoda EDBMS. Open-source storage engines for different operational shapes, plus a commercial Cassandra plugin for fully scalable production
MISSION
"We built Cyoda because we were tired of rebuilding the same infrastructure at every bank we worked at. The problem was always the same — state management, audit, consistency under failure — and the solution was always duct tape. Cyoda is the solution we would have paid for."
