Chris Zuehlke is a Partner at DRW and serves as the Global Head of Cumberland, leading a world-class team dedicated to providing deep liquidity to institutional-sized investors. Chris is a proven leader in operational excellence and has been working at DRW for almost two decades across various trading disciplines. He has extensive experience building trading operations from the ground up and is skilled in software development, trade research, automated and OTC trading, compliance, operations, market structure and regulation design. Chris also co-founded DRW’s first algorithmic trading operation. Chris earned a BS in Mathematics and Computer Sciences with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently serves as a member of the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee and previously served as an Executive Committee member and Advisor for the FIA Principal Traders Group.