Founder Profile
Nikolay Storonsky
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Nikolay Storonsky?
Nikolay Storonsky is a founder of Revolut Ltd, which was founded in 2015 with Vlad Yatsenko.
- Company founded
- Revolut Ltd
- Founded
- 2015
- Co-founders
- Vlad Yatsenko
Background
Studied physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and economics at the New Economic School, then worked as an equity derivatives trader at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse in London.
Founding Story
Nikolay (Nik) Storonsky co-founded Revolut in 2015 and has been its CEO since. He led the company from a prepaid travel card to a multinational bank with ~$5.94 billion (£4.5 billion) of 2025 revenue and remains its largest individual shareholder. He also founded the investment firm Quantum Light.
Nikolay Storonsky was born in 1984 in Dolgoprudny.
Nikolay Nikolayevich Storonsky was born on July 21, 1984. He also founded the venture capital firm QuantumLight.