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Chris Wittenborn

Director of Business Development • Velocity Markets
Chris graduated from The University of Colorado in 2008 and began his career writing Special Situations Research. He moved into trading in 2010 starting his career with Program Trading and At the Market Issuances. In 2011 he moved to New York City and Joined Leerink Partners where he was responsible for running the Biotech and Generic Pharmaceutical Market making books. He was there until 2017 at which point he was briefly at Point 72 responsible for trading Biotech. In 2017 Chris left the traditional realm of Wall Street to work in Crypto full time, where he had been an enthusiast since 2013. Chris consulted for a variety of exchanges on both the spot and derivative side and joined Velocity Markets in 2018 to run their Broker Dealer Operations. Chris is currently responsible for corresponding and working with FINRA and the SEC to broaden Velocity Markets regulatory approvals and also run Business Development and Strategy for the Parent Company.

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