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title: "About | Cyoda"
description: "Built by engineers who spent careers building the core regulated systems that run global investment banks. Cyoda reflects what financial systems actually need."
canonical: https://cyoda.com/about
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# 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

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### 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.

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### 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

1.  2012
    
    Cyoda founded
    
2.  2015
    
    Platform feature-complete with core architectural innovations in place
    
3.  2017
    
    First production deployment (VC Trade, European private-debt market)
    
4.  2025
    
    Cyoda Cloud live beta launched
    
5.  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."