Finitive, a data-driven private credit marketplace connecting borrowers with institutional investors, hired Steve Yampolsky as head of engineering and Chris Benjamin as principal software architect.
“Steve and Chris’ deep experience leveraging and implementing algorithms, artificial intelligence and machine learning for SaaS solutions will significantly advance Finitive’s workflows, deal-matching capabilities and overall experience for lenders and borrowers,” Jon Burlinson, chief information officer at Finitive, said. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome them to our growing technology team.”
Yampolsky has more than 25 years of technology experience in creating alternative investment and asset management products. A specialist in automated workflows, he previously led a team at BNY Mellon that architected and developed a cloud-based automated expense-processing system for the firm’s fund accounting system. Earlier at BNY Mellon, he was responsible for defining system and data integration architectures, creating new business intelligence, business process orchestration and data integration products.
Benjamin has been a software developer for since the early 2000s. In his most recent principal software architect role for CRE Simple, Benjamin led the development of a deal management platform for commercial real estate. Prior to that, he was principal software architect at Stem, an artificial intelligence-driven energy trading platform that is now publicly valued at more than $3 billion. Early in his career, Benjamin got his start building e-commerce websites for companies such as Best Buy and The Gap.
