Empowering the financial industry For the future of finance

NYALA is a technology company specializing in blockchain technology and a pioneer of regulated custody solutions for crypto assets. Our mission is to help financial service providers embrace the transition to the future of the financial industry. Join us on this exciting journey!

Selected Highlights of our Journey

€ 2.3M L‘Osteria

We created one of the first tokenized bonds in Germany for a restaurant chain.

Kapilendo Custodian

The second crypto custodian to receive the license by German BaFin runs purely on our custody solution.

Smart Registry

Our subsidiary started operating with a preliminary Bafin license to register electronic securities.

€ 2M+ electronic Securities

Our subsidiary registered the first electronic securities (bearer bonds).

2019

€ 2.3M L‘Osteria

We created one of the first tokenized bonds in Germany for a restaurant chain.

2021

Kapilendo Custodian

The second crypto custodian to receive the license by German BaFin runs purely on our custody solution.

Smart Registry

Our subsidiary started operating with a preliminary Bafin license to register electronic securities.

2022

€ 2M+ electronic Securities

Our subsidiary registered the first electronic securities (bearer bonds).

Our Vision

Digital Assets will be everywhere

The German electronic securities act (eWpG) is just the start and within five years all financial asset classes will be possible on-chain.

Established players will play a role

We believe that financial institutions will continue to play a role in the financial markets of tomorrow. They will not disappear, as they are well positioned in the regulatory framework.

Some intermediaries will dissapear

The cooperation of financial institutions will move on-chain - thus breaking up data silos, constant consolidation, and errors while reducing the number of players involved.

Our Mission

Empower financial industry for the future of finance

We provide the tools to financial players who are on their journey towards a Digital Asset future.

Bring Digital Assets to the mainstream

We deliver a primary and secondary market infrastructure for assets without current capital market access.

Build a sustainable ecosystem

We continue to build solutions for new asset classes and emerging use cases in line with the developing regulations.

Our Team We are NYALA

Dr. Johannes Schmitt CO-CEO

Johannes Schmitt
Johannes Schmitt
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.
Johannes Schmitt

Daniel Wernicke CO-CEO

Daniel Wernicke
Daniel Wernicke
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.
Daniel Wernicke

Sanjeev Thapa CTO

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 CTO, Sanjeev’s primary responsibility is to lead an entire engineering team and its growth.

Carlos Ficola Product Owner Tokenization

Carlos Ficola
Carlos Ficola
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
Carlos Ficola

Laurent Cirlini Head of Product

Previously at BCG Digital Ventures and FinTech incubator FinLeap. MSc in Business Administration from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.

As a Head of Product, Laurent combines years of experience building products in several early-stage startups with his FinTech background to create an industry-leading B2B product. He has been invested in crypto assets since the launch of Ethereum.

Sebastian Winkelmann Product Owner Custody

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.

Hanna Dudenhausen Head of Public Relations

Hanna Dudenhausen
Hanna Dudenhausen
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.
Hanna Dudenhausen

Tobias Born Software Engineer

Tobias Born
Tobias Born
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.
Tobias Born

Attila Takacs Software Engineer

Attila Takacs
Attila Takacs
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.
Attila Takacs

Celina Homps Business Development Manager

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.

Adnan Inayat Software Engineer

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.

Tim David Brachwitz Product Manager Analytics & Quantitative Analyst

David Brachwitz
David Brachwitz
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.
David Brachwitz

Jingran Zhang Product Manager

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.

Deniz Gönüllü Communication Designer

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.

Mohsen Mojabi Software Engineer

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.

Anushka Chanchal Ramesh Quality Assurance Engineer

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.

Johannes Rolly Legal Analyst

Johannes Rolly
Johannes Rolly
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
Johannes Rolly

Laura Hauke Operations Manager

Previously with the Boston Consulting Group in Berlin. She has a BSc in economics and working on her MSc in economic psychology.

She is our Operations Manager and manages the Office, HR, and Accounting.

Mohamed Lotfy DevOps Engineer

Mohamed Lotfy
Mohamed Lotfy
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.
Mohamed Lotfy

Ricardo Rubio Product Designer

Previously at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Group, NTT Data, and Itaú Private Bank. Bachelor's degree in Product Design from PUCPR and Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Awari's specialization in Product Design.

Currently designing the new NYALA Design Language, building the foundation for the Design System and new product from end-to-end. Working alongside the Product team to create a new and valuable user-centered product.

Randy Castillo Software Engineer

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.  

William Bailey Analyst Advisor

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.

Vivien Kirsch Legal Analyst

Currently studying law at the University of Cologne.

Vivien is part of the legal team and accompanies the further development of blockchain technology from the legal side. She is responsible for legal research and content creation.

Maximilian Ruge Legal Analyst

Graduate in law from the Georg-August University of Göttingen. Legal trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main.

Maximilian is part of the legal team and accompanies the further development of blockchain technology from the legal side. In particular, he implements regulatory requirements and advises on the resulting legal issues.

His task is to further develop the products by applying the existing legal framework and to actively influence the legislation on blockchain technology through statements as well as consultations.

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