Rob Zumwalt

Rob Zumwalt is a Senior Trader at Belvedere Trading, LLC, based in Libertyville, IL, where he leads trading strategies and risk management initiatives. In this role, he specializes in trading equity derivatives and complex option structures, with a focus on U.S. listed equity options and related volatility products.

Before joining Belvedere Trading, Rob was Head of Research at MCT Capital, where he oversaw the development of quantitative models for trading and risk management. He also served as a Trading System Developer at Baloise Insurance, focusing on the optimization of systematic trading technology and data-driven execution for insurance-related investment vehicles.

Rob holds a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University and dual undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri - Columbia. His expertise spans quantitative trading, options pricing, systematic strategy development, and derivatives risk analysis within the financial markets sector.