About
Sporttrade's mission is to perpetually deliver superior quality of markets for institutional partners and sophisticated traders alike. As a market technology company, Sporttrade represents the relentless passion to apply cutting-edge sports market microstructure expertise in an effort to always put market participants first.
Our team
Bringing together the best experience and leadership from Financial Services and Sports Markets.
Alex Kane
Chief Executive Officer
Alex is the founder of the firm and US sports betting expert. Alex has been featured in many top industry publications including EGR and Business of Betting, and has written about the US legal landscape in Bloomberg. In 2019, Alex secured seed and Series A funding for Sporttrade and led the Company through the 2019 Comcast NBCU Accelerator Powered by Techstars.
Anthony Busacca
Chief Financial Officer
Anthony is a former Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase where he spent over 24 years. In his last role, he served as the Firm-wide Financial Controller and prior to this, Anthony was Merger Integration Lead Finance Executive for Securitized Products during the JPMC/Bear Stearns merger. Anthony served in a variety of senior Finance and Ops capacities during his time at JPMC after joining them from Ernst & Young.
David Huffman
Chief Operating Officer
David leads Sporttrade’s operations, trading systems, and enterprise risk management efforts, with a focus on building secure, transparent, and efficient exchange infrastructure. Prior to Sporttrade, he spent five years as a technology consultant at Ernst & Young (EY), advising financial services clients on systems design, operational efficiency, and risk controls in regulated environments.
Arpita McGrath
Chief Regulatory & Compliance Officer
Arpita is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with almost 20 years of experience in financial services, regulatory compliance, gaming, and derivatives markets. Her expertise spans BSA/AML program development, customer risk assessment, transaction monitoring, trade surveillance, regulatory oversight, and the development and implementation of compliance frameworks for CFTC-regulated exchanges and clearinghouses. She has extensive experience navigating the evolving regulatory landscape of sports betting, prediction markets, and event contracts, including exchange and clearinghouse registration, market surveillance, and regulatory compliance operations. Arpita serves as Co-Chair of the ACAMS Greater Philadelphia Chapter and as a member of Drexel University's LeBow College of Business Accounting Advisory Council.