NYALA - For the future of finance!

Previously at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Southern California.

Johannes is responsible for Product Strategy, Sales and IT and focuses on the expansion of services and the expansion of our network of partners.

Previously with SoundChat as CTO & Aximpro as Director of Technology. MSc High Integrity Systems from Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences.

Sanjeev was a Co-Founder & CTO at Cloudyfox an international Software company based in Kathmandu, Nepal. His core expertise includes product development, SW engineering, Cloud computing, DevSecOps, and Leadership. As VP Of Engineering, Sanjeev’s primary responsibility is to lead an entire engineering team and its growth.

Previously with Deloitte Consulting and Lloyd Fonds AG.
MSc in Business Administration from the University of Amsterdam and a BSc in Economics from the University of Mannheim.

Sebastian is responsible for our custody solution product and corporate development. He has been invested in crypto assets for many years and is leveraging his traditional finance background to further scale our crypto solutions for financial institutions.

Previously at KPMG.
MSc in Computer Science for Medicine at the Technical College Brandenburg.

As an application engineer & full stack developer, Tobias conducts the front and backend development for our platform. He also looks at our internal IT operations, data modeling, and system integration.

MSc in International Business from HWR Berlin and Law degree from the Catholic University of Argentina.

Celina is in charge of the sales process, coordination of marketing campaigns, and developing leads for potential new accounts. Besides, she supports the Tokenization and Custody teams in researching the newest trends and projects.

Previously at Invesdor AG and wevest Digital AG.

David is managing the portfolio & index analytics platform to create, manage and track portfolio risk measures and portfolio analytics.
David has a background in computer science, stochastics, and financial mathematics.

Previously in Invesdor INV AG. Graduated in communication design from the Design Academy Berlin.

With more than 20 years of experience, Deniz is in charge of the corporate image's overall design and is responsible for our brand development.

BE in Computer Science Engineering from Anna University, India

Anushka is an accomplished Software Quality Assurance Engineer with deep and broad proficiency in all phases of the Software Testing Life cycle. She supports our project teams to produce high-quality work by completing thorough quality assurance evaluations as well as scaling up tests.

Previously at anynines GmbH & Vodafone TSSE.BSc Telecommunication and Electronics Engineering.

Mohamed is responsible for establishing DevOps practices and culture in the company, assuring the required automation and Tooling to improve the development and deployment life cycles, building and maintaining scalable/efficient/observable infrastructure, and accomplishing the best DevSecOps practices.

Previously at CERSS International.
BSc in Mechatronic Engineering and now studying Computational Modeling and Simulation at TU Dresden.

Among Szymon, tasks are optimizing the internal applications and managing the hardware devices.

Previously with BCG, Truventuro, PALTRON.
MBA at London Business School and Law State Exam from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg.

Daniel adjusts our strategy, tailoring it to legal and regulatory requirements, and leverages his management experience in order to further professionalize processes.

Previously at UBS, Switzerland.
BA in International Business from HTW Berlin.

Carlos was part of the core team that acquired Germany’s second crypto custodian license from BaFin and is responsible for our tokenization projects including registrar services. Carlos has been invested in crypto assets for many years and is part of the BAM investment committee

Previously at Bloomberg, public imaging, Invesdor.
MA in Communications from Freie Universität in Berlin.

She is responsible for our PR and media strategy. She has been active in Finance for more than 15 years and has many years of experience in the field of corporate communications within the financial industry.

Previously at Nokia, evosoft.

As Software Engineer Attila is responsible for Blockchain Integration into our system as well as the implementation of new features with a special focus on backend integration.

Previously in Lampenwelt.
MSc in Global Software Development from the Hochschule Fulda.

Adnan works as Full Stack Developer and focuses on the creation of new features and the implementation of new ideas into our existing systems.

Previously with Air France and Shippeo.
MSc in Strategy and Digital Business from ESCP Business School and MA in French-Chinese Interpretation from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Jingran has multiple years of experience in business development before joining two startups based in Paris. As Product Manager, Jingran is responsible for product research, development, and customer-facing operations.

BSc Computer Software Engineering & MSc Mechatronic.

As a full-stack software engineer in the development team, Mohsen implements the required features both on the Back end as well as the Front end, to improve performance and increase the capabilities of the product. He has also several years of experience in mobile applications programming & robotics.

Currently obtaining a law degree from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Johannes focuses on all legal questions and ensures our compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.

Among his core duties are the drafting of contracts and communication with regulatory authorities

Previously at MicroNexus GmbH. BSc in Computer Science As a Software Engineer.

Randy is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing software solutions that meet business needs.

Previously at Kraken, Allianz Investment Management SE.
BSc in Mathematics from Ohio State University and MSc in Financial Economics from Maastricht University.

As a crypto markets analyst, William performs research and analysis for the purposes of NAM index constituent selection and new product development. He also writes content for the NYALA blog, covering current events and upcoming trends in crypto.

Empowering the financial industry For the future of finance

Selected Highlights of our Journey

€ 2.3M L‘Osteria

Kapilendo Custodian

Smart Registry

€ 2M+ electronic Securities

2019

€ 2.3M L‘Osteria

2021

Kapilendo Custodian

Smart Registry

2022

€ 2M+ electronic Securities

Our Vision

Digital Assets will be everywhere

Established players will play a role

Some intermediaries will dissapear

Our Mission

Empower financial industry for the future of finance

Bring Digital Assets to the mainstream

Build a sustainable ecosystem

Our Team We are NYALA

Dr. Johannes Schmitt CO-CEO

Sanjeev Thapa VP of Engineering

Sebastian Winkelmann Product Owner Custody

Tobias Born Software Engineer

Celina Homps Business Development Manager

Tim David Brachwitz Product Manager Analytics & Quantitative Analyst

Deniz Gönüllü Communication Designer

Anushka Chanchal Ramesh Quality Assurance Engineer

Mohamed Lotfy DevOps Engineer

Szymon Chrost IT Working Student

Daniel Wernicke CO-CEO

Carlos Ficola Product Owner Tokenization

Hanna Dudenhausen Head of Public Relations

Attila Takacs Software Engineer

Adnan Inayat Software Engineer

Jingran Zhang Product Manager

Mohsen Mojabi Software Engineer

Johannes Rolly Legal Analyst

Randy Castillo Software Engineer

William Bailey Analyst Advisor

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