Welcome to Draughon.us, the web presence for Tayloe Draughon.

Tayloe is a successful strategiest who has lead the e-Trading technology initiatives to dramatically improve Calyon Fiancial's front office capabilities. The global team and global processes that he built has resulted in improved firm capabilities and has assisted in the rapid growth of front office revenues.

Tayloe is a successful trading industry technology leader and entrepreneur who led the Cargill Investor Services multi-asset class eTrading team to deploy new innovative solutions for high value clients including international Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), Hedge Funds, and Commodity Hedgers.

Tayloe also founded, and profitably sold a software and information systems consultancy focusing on the investment industry. As a strong developer and businessman, he is able to maintain a business focus on trading industry software development projects. He understands and supports the priority of production.

As a technologists, Tayloe has created new applications including:

  • Black box trading algorithms
  • Excel to FIX order routing
  • Order Routing Systems (Futures, options, F/X, and equities)
  • Real Time, Mark to Market Profit and Loss Tracking Systems
  • Strategy Trading Systems (arbitrage, equity option trading, spreads)
  • Exchange Gateways
  • Reusable Software Development Tools
  • Market Data systems

As an entrepreneur, Tayloe has:

  • Served as a Chief Technical Officer responsible for consulting skills and product development
  • Served in a technical sales role, including presentation, live demonstrations, trade shows, and writing project proposals
  • Developed an effective marketing plan
  • Hired and trained a technical staff
  • Gained approval for $10 million in venture capital funding to further grow an existing business
  • Grew a business from a sole proprietorship to over $2.5 million in annual sales without the use of venture capital