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PeopleSource dated 22 Oct 2026

Deriv promotes Rotimi Akinyele to CTO for its AI engineering push

Deriv appointed Rotimi Akinyele as CTO, promoting a leader who joined as vice president of security in July 2024. The company says he will lead engineering, improve its internal AI systems and expand automation in software development, with security controls central to the work.

At a glance

Move
promotion
From
Deriv
To
Deriv
Role
Chief Technology Officer
Announced
2026-10-22
Effective
Unknown
Verification
confirmed