Graham Walters

Graham Walters is chief people officer at DraftKings. Walters has been integral to DraftKings’ growth and development as a people-centric organization. Graham began his career at DraftKings as the director of human resources in 2015 and has worked tirelessly to develop and upgrade the company’s people systems as DraftKings, Inc. continues to grow.

Graham believes that centering company policies around employee happiness most effectively fosters employee productivity. Graham is responsible for driving DraftKings’ overall people strategies. He focuses on enhancing talent acquisition and employment branding; enabling employee and leadership growth and development, operational excellence through compensation, benefits, people analytics and systems; creating an exceptional employee experience through workplace and real estate; and building a competency around diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Graham attended the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst where he focused on operations management. He resides with his wife and kids in the Boston area.