William Brindise began his career on the NYMEX working for ZAR trading. In 2003, Mr Brindise started his own brokerage and trading firm, BAK, which actively traded crude oil, unleaded gasoline, heating oil and natural gas. Mr Brindise joined DigitalX (US) in 2014 as chief trading officer, and oversees its liquidity desk which included transactions for bitcoin hedge fund GABI and derivatives exchange TeraExchange. Mr Brindise also managed US$20 million for an energy and metals firm which returned more than 60% in annualized profit.