Vestwell names Rob Molchon CTO

Vestwell names Rob Molchon CTO
The digital record-keeping platform also promoted Ryan Anderson to chief product officer.
OCT 12, 2021

Vestwell, a digital record-keeping platform for retirement plans, has hired Rob Molchon as its chief technology officer and promoted Ryan Anderson to chief product officer.

Molchon was previously senior vice president of engineering at Integral Ad Science, where he was responsible for new product development, high-throughput data collection, big data processing, software quality and release engineering.

Ryan Anderson joined Vestwell in 2019 as the company’s senior vice president of product and design and is responsible for leading and facilitating its product road map. Prior to Vestwell, Anderson was chief product officer at Advizr and spent several years directing product design at FactSet.

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