Chris Murphy

Partner, Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Chris Murphy has been with Walleye since 2013 and has spent his career building and managing investment businesses. Over more than a decade, he has developed multiple investment strategies, initially as a Portfolio Manager and increasingly as a key partner in supporting Will’s investment activities. He has played a central role in designing and advancing Walleye’s proprietary risk and analytics architecture, which underpins the firm’s multi-strategy framework. Today, his role is focused on driving the integration of risk management, portfolio construction, and capital allocation across all investment verticals, while helping oversee the risk team. He was promoted to Deputy CIO in 2024 in recognition of his broad remit and firmwide impact. 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.