Harvest Exchange, a software platform that builds public and private digital communities across the financial services sector,has appointed Derek Anderson as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), a newly created position.

Anderson, 35, reports to CEO Peter Hans and is charged with enhancing the efficiency and scalability of the firm’s proprietary software and developing new platform features and offerings.
 
"Derek joins at an inflection point for our business as the mechanisms and delivery of content marketing and investor communications continue to undergo a paradigm shift," says Hans.
 
Harvest has also added a new compliance module that allows for multiple compliance officers to be added to the review and sign off process. The module also includes a more robust archiving and record-keeping feature, which is critical to the compliance function. Anderson has also overseen the platform’s migration from the Cloud to a dedicated Harvest server network for more secure control and performance scalability of over 100 times the current user-base.
 
"I look forward to continually improving the platform to make the user experience richer and more tailored to each of our diverse clients’ needs,” says Anderson.
 
Anderson was previously a Senior Software Engineer for Two Sigma Investments, one of the largest quant investing firms globally. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Troy University and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.