Alexander Kravets is the co-founder and CEO of XTRD.IO, bringing mature financial trading technologies to cryptocurrency by aggregating market data, execution, dark pools, and liquidity across crypto exchanges. Previously, Alexander has 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.