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