A trader-focused ecosystem for trading and investing in ABTs and cryptocurrencies.

Alexander Kravets is an accomplished leader who has built a career as a trader, co-founder, and CEO of several trading-based ecosystems. He recently joined Symbridge from CEX.IO, a centralized crypto exchange, as their U.S. CEO. He is a co-founder of XTRD.io which brings mature financial trading technologies to cryptocurrency trading by aggregating market data and execution across crypto exchanges. Alexander is also a DAO member and advisor at BeyondFi, a decentralized platform for creating and trading synthetic financial products. He spent over a dozen years in high frequency and proprietary day trading, starting his career as a successful proprietary equities trader and later acting as Managing Director at a self-clearing equity and derivatives HFT broker/dealer that provided direct market access (DMA), software and co-location services as well as running a retail brokerage with 100,000 active users. Alexander is a graduate of Pace University with a degree in Computer Science.

Vic has more than 30 years of experience advising domestic and foreign banking institutions, broker-dealers, hedge funds and fintech companies, on corporate, transactional, and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Symbridge, Vic was a partner at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, an AmLaw 200 international law firm, where he co-chaired the investment management and international funds practice, having previously co-chaired the firms venture capital and high-technology practice. Vic was also formerly with the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.  Vic is a graduate of Holy Cross College and Fordham Law School.

Josh has over 20 years’ experience managing risk and designing procedures and other operational processes.  He began his compliance career as a senior bank examiner for the New York State Department of Financial Services.  Since then, he’s guided a number of well-known financial institutions including Metropolitan Commercial Bank of New York, the Standard Charter Bank of Newark, and Natixis Wholesale Banking Americas. Josh is a graduate of City University of New York – Baruch College – Zicklin School of Business and is ACAMS certified.

David brings over a decade of technical leadership and development experience to Symbridge. Most recently, David was responsible for managing the global Data Engineering platform for Marcus.com (Goldman’s retail arm) where he built a team of engineers in order to develop the institution’s first cloud native credit card platform in partnership with Apple.

Prior to rejoining Goldman, David was one of the founding members of a FIX messaging company, TransactTools, which was acquired by the New York Stock Exchange.  His history includes software, infrastructure, networking and security experience having worked in a number of Fortune 500 companies such as New York Stock Exchange, ICE and Motorola.

David graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Computer and Systems Engineering.

Sean has over 20 years of experience in regulatory, operational, and financial management. He began his career at the New York Stock Exchange and has worked at a variety of domestic and international banks, broker-dealers, and investment advisors. Sean has built out a number of successful finance, operations and compliance departments and related programs. He is a graduate of Fordham University and holds FINRA Series 7, 14, 14A, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 63, 79 and 99 licenses.

Angela has over 20 years of leadership experience developing marketing and communication strategies and implementing go-to-market plans for leading financial institutions.  Prior to Symbridge, she was head of marketing for HSBC’s US Commercial Bank and America’s Global Banking and Markets divisions.  Angela is a graduate of Butler University with a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and is digital marketing certified.

Mike has over 25 years of experience leading assessments of financial institutions for their safety, soundness, and compliance for prudent cyber practices and holds several cybersecurity and risk assessment certifications. Prior to joining Symbridge, Mike worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a Cybersecurity subject matter expert (SME) where he’s led cybersecurity assessments for several large financial market utilities; a major aspect of the US financial critical infrastructure. Mike has also served in a Senior Enlisted Advisor (SEA) role as a US Army Sergeant Major (USAR) within the US Intelligence Community (IC).  Mike holds a bachelors degree in Liberal Arts and is a graduate of the US Army Sergeants Major Academy.

Joris has over 15 years of experience building companies. His expertise lies in spearheading operations for early-stage startups, refining complex products, managing projects, forming teams and fundraising. He began his career at the United Nations Development Program, where he managed and coordinated large projects. At the UN, he was part of a three-person fund management team that raised over $100 million to execute government support programs focused on system modernization, capacity building and development of entrepreneurial initiatives. More recently, Joris founded three companies in tech and hospitality and advised startups on fundraising and operations strategy. Joris is a lecturer on Entrepreneurship at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. Joris holds an MBA from Oxford University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Barcelona.