speaker
Luke Walter
Chief Strategy Officer · AFWERX
Luke Walter is the AFWERX Chief Strategy Officer and Division Lead for the AFWERX Capital Initiatives (RGI) Division. He oversees several areas to include portfolio
analysis, organizational performance, foreign risk review, and private capital engagement.
Luke began his career as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. From 2008 to 2015, he served in various roles with the Fleet Marine Forces, USINDOPACOM, and Special Operations. Career highlights include three deployments supporting combat operations, humanitarian relief efforts, and conducting international engagements.
After leaving active military service, Luke joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Senior Associate providing forensic accounting, anti-money laundering, and management consulting services. His work helped clients streamline forensic investigation processes which dramatically increased efficiency and introduced early cryptocurrency tracking and identification methods.
In 2018, Luke earned his Master’s in Business Administration from Georgetown University. After graduation he joined Meta in New York, working as a Business Planning and Operations Associate within the Marketing Science division. He served as the business partner for several Director-level departments leading international investment, operations and process improvement, commercial partnership, and strategy projects.
Returning to Washington, DC, Luke joined Bloomberg Industry Group’s financial planning and analysis office working on special projects and initiatives focused on consumer analytics. However, after several years working in commercial industries, Luke felt a calling back to national security. In 2021, he joined Systems Planning and Analysis to support the DoD’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) efforts. He was appointed team lead overseeing lawyers and cybersecurity experts responsible for ensuring compliance of national security agreements, and his work professionalized the office’s approach to
compliance, monitoring, and enforcement.
He joined AFWERX’s Washington DC office in March 2023.
