With robust security, exceptional transparency, and innovative technology enables seamless transactions.
At Symbridge, we know professional traders require access to innovative opportunities as well as a reliable way to trade those assets. Our spot platform lets traders harness the power of our exchange with the exceptional liquidity and consistent uptime on which they rely.
A team of experienced traders and talented developers, we understand the unique challenges and requirements of professional traders—we’ve faced them ourselves. But we also know most digital asset exchanges cannot offer the functionality you need to be successful on a decentralized platform.
It’s why we created Symbridge.
We are the first U.S.-based, licensed, industrial grade, digital asset exchange built exclusively for hedge funds, market makers, asset managers, corporations, and active traders like you.
Symbridge’s unique platform lets traders tap into the future of mercantilism without sacrificing speed or liquidity. We’re bridging the gap between today and tomorrow.
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.
Karen Morgan has over 20 years of experience in marketing and branding for world-class firms including Citigroup, BNY Mellon, Credit Suisse, SunGard and Instinet. She has also been the CMO for several fintech firms. Ms. Morgan earned a B.A. From Villanova and an M.A. from Baruch. Series 7/63 passed.
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.
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.
Karen Morgan has over 20 years of experience in marketing and branding for world-class firms including Citigroup, BNY Mellon, Credit Suisse, SunGard and Instinet. She has also been the CMO for several fintech firms. Ms. Morgan earned a B.A. From Villanova and an M.A. from Baruch. Series 7/63 passed.
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.
Michael McGuire has a rich history of entrepreneurship, innovation, and new business creation. He is the founder & managing member of Twelve22 Capital Partners LLC, which acts as a general partner of an investment vehicle focused on technology, fintech, and blockchain. Michael is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Atomyze LLC, a U.S. platform for the digitization of physical assets, and former Chairman of Atomyze AG, based in Zug. He began his career at Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JPMorgan Chase) and left to found ARIA Worldwide, Inc., a commodity trading and structured finance company. He later founded ARIASYS Inc., an offshore software development company that delivered high availability and scalable trading systems. Michael has previously been on the boards of two publicly traded companies, Stillwater Mining (NYSE) and Plug Power (NASDAQ). He is also a lecturer of entrepreneurial studies at Columbia University.
Gavin Prentice is the Chairman of the London Metal Exchange (LME) User and Nickel Committees. He also sits on the LME’s Special Committee and is a former Board Member of the LME. Gavin was also a Managing Director at Marex Spectron and Member of the Board of Directors at Levmet Holdings.
Joshua Levine is a Member of the Board of Directors of Fantex and a Member of the Management Board of Kita Capital Management. Previously, Joshua held the position of Member Board of Governors, Chairman of the Finance, Operations and Technology Committee at FINRA. He was also the former Chief Technical and Operations Officer of E*TRADE Financial.
John Macfarlane is the Founder and Managing Member of the Arrochar Group companies which make investments and provide advisory services. Prior to founding Arrochar, John was a Partner of Tudor Investment Corporation from 1998 to 2011, where he served as Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman. Prior to Tudor he worked at Salomon Brothers from 1979 to 1998 as fixed income trader, as Treasurer and as Managing Director of Fixed Income Derivatives- Asia and the America’s. John currently serves on several not-for-profit and for-profit boards, including as Chairman of Atomyze LLC.
Mr. Docter is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board of Traxys International, which is one of the world’s leading traders of specialty metals, including uranium. Traxys is privately owned, with the majority of shares held by the Carlyle Group and Moore Capital, and 20% owned by Traxys senior management, including Mr. Docter. As measured by annual gross revenue of over $6 billion, Traxys is among the world’s top five metals traders.
Mr. Docter obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from New York University in French Literature. In order to make ends meet, immediately after graduating from college he took a job as the mail clerk for Continental Metals, a large metals trading firm located in New York City. At the suggestion of Continental’s President, Mr. Docter worked his way up through the organization and became one of its most successful traders.
In the mid 1970’s, Mr. Docter recognized that the Soviet Union was a leading producer of specialty metals, many of which were then in very short supply. He convinced the Continental board of directors to allow him to travel to the Soviet Union where he concluded the first ever contract for the purchase of titanium between a US company and the USSR’s trading company RosnoExport, and its subsidiary Techsnabexport. The contract was based on a handshake and during the remainder of the 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s, Mr. Docter expanded his relationships in the Soviet Union, despite numerous political disagreements between the USSR and USA during the same time. In all of his contracts with Soviet metals producers, Mr. Docter relied on the personal relationships he established and trusted in the integrity of his trading partners.
As a result of this strategy, and a focus on long-term trends in metals’ pricing, Alan Docter established himself as leading buyer of specialty metals, including metals from the USSR. In 1986, he founded Considar Metals, which later merged with Hochschild Partners in 1999 and then, finally, Sogem to form Traxys International in 2003. Traxys began trading uranium in 2007, when Kevin Smith of Evolution Markets joined the company as the Director of Uranium Marketing & Trading. Since that time Traxys has established itself as a leading trader U3O8. In addition to providing creative financing mechanisms for both buyers and sellers of uranium, Traxys was the first company to commit to purchase excess uranium inventories from the US Department of Energy.
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