Founder and CIO, XBTO Group
Walton Comer manages trading and risk management. He also develops and optimizes the trading algorithms.
Walton was one of the first algorithmic traders to provide liquidity to major crypto exchanges. He was a key figure in the formation of the CME strategy for crypto futures.
Before XBTO, Walton was a founder and principal at Falcon Bridge Partners, a high-frequency commodities trading platform. He served as a Vice President of Risk at SAC Capital Advisors. He was a Director of Research at Thornhill Partners, a media consulting firm where his clients included IBM, NBC, Viacom, and PBS. Walton is a director of Lucid, a media technology company that he co-founded.
Walton earned a Master of Science degree in Mathematics of Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, plus Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Physics from University of the South.