Who are Revolut's decision-makers?

Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko co-founded Revolut in 2015. Storonsky, a former equity-derivatives trader at Lehman Brothers (2006–08) and Credit Suisse, is CEO and the dominant decision-maker, having built a reputation for relentless growth targets and a demanding performance culture. Yatsenko, an engineer who previously worked at UBS, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, built the technology organisation as CTO over more than a decade.

In June 2026 Revolut announced Yatsenko will step down as CTO and become a non-executive director effective July 1, 2026, providing strategic and technical counsel from the board. Donato Lucia — an eight-year Revolut veteran and previously Head of Technology — was promoted to VP of Technology to run engineering.

Strategy and the biggest bets sit with Storonsky, but day-to-day budgets are owned by functional leaders. Siddhartha Jajodia, Global Chief Banking Officer, owns the banking, credit and deposits P&L; Pierre Decote, Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, owns risk and regulatory spend — increasingly important now that Revolut is a fully licensed UK bank supervised by the PRA and FCA. Engineering tooling and infrastructure decisions run through the technology org under Lucia.

For a seller, that means the economic buyer depends on the product: pitch banking/lending vendors to the banking org, security/compliance/regtech to the risk office, and developer tooling or cloud to engineering — and expect Storonsky's office to weigh in on anything strategic or large.

Revolut grew to roughly 19,800 employees by the end of 2025, up about 23% year over year, organised into functional groups (banking, risk & compliance, technology/engineering, product, growth/marketing, and operations) rather than geographic fiefdoms. It runs lean relative to revenue, with small autonomous product teams and a heavy engineering bias.

As it converts to a regulated bank across multiple jurisdictions, the org is layering in country-level banking, risk and compliance leadership — which adds named budget owners and more formal procurement, even as the central product and engineering culture stays founder-led and fast. Notably, Revolut has signalled it will base a large and growing share of its workforce (a planned 40% by end-2026) in India, shifting more engineering and operations gravity eastward.