Chris Murphy

Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Chris Murphy has been with Walleye since 2013 and has spent his career building and managing investment businesses. He has developed several investment strategies at the firm, having initially been a Portfolio Manager and increasingly serving as a prominent member of the team supporting Will’s investment-related activities. During his tenure, he has played a key role in developing our proprietary risk and analytics architecture, which is the backbone of our platform. He was promoted to Deputy CIO in 2024 as a reflection of the breadth of his remit and involvement across all of the firm’s investment verticals. Chris began his career at Axiom, where he focused on algorithmic FX trading. He holds an honors degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.