Chris Zuehlke

Chris Zuehlke

Partner DRW & Global Head of Cumberland, DRW
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Chris Zuehlke is a Partner at DRW and Global Head of Cumberland, DRW's crypto trading subsidiary, providing institutional digital-asset liquidity. Nearly two decades at DRW; serves on the CFTC's Global Markets Advisory Committee.

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Drew Genter

Head of Market Making - Fixed Income, Commodities, Currencies and Crypto Options

Drew Genter is Head of Market Making – Fixed Income, Commodities, Currencies and Crypto Options at DRW, a role he assumed in January 2026. In this capacity, his mandate spans market making across fixed income, commodities, currencies, and crypto options. Prior to this appointment, he served as Desk Head for Crude Oil Options at DRW from February 2021 to January 2026, a position focused on energy derivatives.

Before joining DRW, Genter spent approximately nine and a half years at Optiver, from September 2010 to February 2020, where he worked as a Derivatives Trader specialising in energy options in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Strategy from the University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business, where he studied from 2006 to 2010, and a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Management from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, completed between 2013 and 2016.

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Erin Duggan

Head of Crypto Operations

Erin Duggan is Crypto Operations Manager at DRW, a role she has held since June 2025, based in Chicago. DRW is a diversified trading firm operating across traditional and digital asset markets.

Prior to joining DRW, Duggan spent nearly five years at Coinbase. She joined in December 2020 as a Trade Execution specialist before advancing to Manager, Head of Trading Execution Services for the US and EMEA regions, a position she held from September 2023 until June 2025. Before Coinbase, she served as Head of Client Services for the Americas at B2C2, a digital asset liquidity provider, from December 2019 to November 2020. Earlier in her career she held trade analyst and junior trader roles at Circle, the stablecoin and Web3 services company, between June 2018 and December 2019. Her combined experience across Coinbase, B2C2, and Circle spans crypto trading execution, client services, and institutional digital asset operations.

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Neil Patel

Head of Market Making Crypto Options

I need to determine which Neil Patel at DRW matches the input. The job role given is "Product," which does not clearly match either profile — one is Desk Head Crypto Options (trading/markets) and the other is Tech Lead (engineering). The existing biography mentions BioFique Inc. and VC University by UC Berkeley & NVCA, neither of which appears in either LinkedIn profile. Neither profile corroborates the existing biography's details.However, the task is to write a new biography from source content, not to validate the existing one. The input specifies "Job Role: Product" — neither source profile lists a Product role. The closest institutional match to the name, company, and a plausible professional context is the Desk Head Crypto Options profile, but that role is trading, not product. The Tech Lead profile is engineering, not product.Given that neither profile corresponds to a "Product" role, and the existing biography references companies (BioFique Inc.) and education (VC University by UC Berkeley & NVCA) that appear in neither source profile, the source content does not reliably identify this specific individual matching the input parameters.INSUFFICIENT_DATA

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Tyler Carson

AVP - Crypto Operations

Tyler Carson is a Senior Operations Analyst – Digital Assets at DRW and its crypto trading arm Cumberland, based in London, where he has led EMEA crypto operations since July 2023. His mandate covers post-trade controls including reconciliations, settlements, inventory management, and exception handling across exchanges, wallets, custodians, and banking partners. He acts as escalation point for intraday liquidity and funding decisions, working across Trading, Treasury, Risk, Compliance, and Finance to maintain capital efficiency. He also leads new product and venue implementations, translating requirements into operating processes and control frameworks.

On the technology side, Carson built real-time exchange exposure and risk monitoring with role-based views and automated alerting across UI, Slack, and email channels. He developed automation and dashboards using Python, Excel/VBA, and Splunk to replace manual workflows with real-time visibility, and built KPI reporting and reconciliation tooling for partnership activity including automated invoice-ready summaries. Prior to DRW, he worked in listed derivatives clearing before moving to a proprietary trading firm, accumulating approximately nine years of total experience in financial operations. His educational background includes Wake Forest University School of Business.

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