Traders should have a say in the rules written about them.

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  Jack “Captain Jack” Andrews

  Jack is a professional sports trader with three decades in the markets and the co-founder of Unabated, the trading tools and education platform used by sports traders across the country. One of the most trusted public voices on how sports markets actually work, he has spent years teaching market mechanics through Unabated’s courses, podcasts, and his own writing.

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  Andrew Courtney

  Andrew is a former professional trader and current writer and practitioner in prediction markets. He spent more than a decade at Susquehanna International Group, eventually managing a large ETF trading operation.

  Since leaving professional trading, Andrew has focused on prediction markets and on using them to explain traditional trading concepts, including pricing, risk management, market making, expected value, and market structure. He speaks and writes about these topics on his Substack, Whirligig Bear, and has been quoted in publications including the Wall Street Journal. He believes strongly in financial literacy, transparent marketing, and clear standards for prediction markets.

  Andrew lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife and two young children.

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  Antonino De Rosa

  Antonino has led his own sports trading group since 2021, specializing in scalable betting operations and market strategy across the NBA, tennis, and soccer. His expertise is in sportsbook risk management, pricing, and market analysis, and he wants sports trading recognized as a legitimate profession rather than something viewed negatively — a market where recreational bettors can participate sustainably and trust that they are not being taken advantage of.

  He has been in the gaming industry since 1999, beginning as a professional Magic: The Gathering player before joining Upper Deck Entertainment to develop collectible trading card games. In 2008 he moved into sports betting and trading, holding positions at Pinnacle Sports and Plannatech, where he spent the following decade building the risk and pricing experience he now applies to prediction markets.

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  Jacob Fortinsky

  Jacob Fortinsky is the Co-Founder and CEO of Novig, America's fastest-growing sports prediction market. He began building the company as a student at Harvard, where he earned a degree in Social Studies. He founded Novig on a simple conviction: sports markets should work like real markets — transparent prices, open access, and no house deciding who's allowed to win. Fortinsky remains an active advocate for federal market standards that protect skilled participants rather than punish them.

  Under his leadership, Novig has raised over $105 million in venture funding and in 2026 received CFTC designation as a federally regulated exchange — the fastest such approval in the agency's history. He is originally from Larchmont, NY and lives in New York City with his wife.

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  David Hill

  David is a writer and researcher who has covered the gambling industry for over a decade. A former Vice President of the National Writers Union and organizer for the Writers Guild of America East, he has extensive experience with building advocacy organizations in non-traditional industries. He serves on the boards of the National Writers United Service Organization and the Sidney Hillman Foundation. He hopes to help the prediction market industry develop best practices and positions that treat all traders as consumers with rights and respect.

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  Alex Kane

  Alex is the Founder and CEO of Sporttrade, the first company in United States history to offer sports contracts on a regulated venue in 2022. Sporttrade is now awaiting federal designation as a DCM and DCO to offer sports event contracts to direct customers and intermediaries.

  Alex's relentless pursuit to put the sports trader first has taken many forms, including speaking at industry events, panels, and state legislatures.

  Alex lives in Philadelphia with his girlfriend Kate and dog Okie.

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  Rufus Peabody

  Rufus has built a reputation as one of the sharpest sports bettors and prediction market traders in the world. For 17 years he's developed proprietary models across a variety of sports and traded on the edges those models surface. Increasingly, his focus has shifted toward prediction markets, where he sees the most compelling inefficiencies and the greatest opportunity for sophisticated, data-driven trading.

  His resume has collected some interesting chapters along the way: co-founding Massey-Peabody Analytics (NFL and college football ratings published in the WSJ), co-founding Unabated Sports, consulting for an NFL team and professional golfers, a year as ESPN's predictive analytics expert, and co-hosting Bet The Process, a weekly podcast on sports analytics and prediction markets. Rufus is a graduate of Yale University, where he wrote his senior thesis on psychological inefficiencies in the baseball betting market.

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  Isaac Rose-Berman

  Isaac is a sports trader, poker player, writer, and fellow at the American Institute for Boys and Men, where his research focuses on gambling policy. He publishes How Gambling Works, a newsletter about gambling, prediction markets, and consumer protection. His work explores how rules, incentives, and product design shape behavior, and how public policy can better protect the people who use them.

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  John Shilling

  John is a co-founder of Blackbriar, a market making firm focused exclusively on sports prediction markets, and the host of the Risk Takers Podcast. Based in South Carolina, he leads a desk providing liquidity across numerous sports and venues, with equal weight on the fundamental pricing of each sport and the quantitative principles behind trading it well.

  John's path to prediction markets ran through poker and traditional finance. He played professionally for several years, primarily in online tournaments, before trading equities in New York and founding Blackbriar in 2022 while earning his MBA at Cornell. He started Risk Takers to do the thing the space is short on: bring the sharpest bettors and traders on to explain how they actually think, in a field where most of the available advice is worth less than nothing. Away from the desk, he's usually on a golf course.

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  Shane Sigsbee

  Shane is the founder and CEO of Imawhale, the #1 public volume leader on Kalshi. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, he leads a 20-person trading desk operating across Kalshi, Polymarket, and DraftKings, bringing a disciplined, data-driven approach to pricing and risk in a market he sees as one of the most compelling frontiers in finance today.

  Shane's path to prediction markets ran through a series of ventures spanning finance, sports, and real estate. A Notre Dame graduate with a Finance degree, he played on the school's golf team and has since competed in 10 USGA tournaments. He began his career trading equity derivatives out of college on the CBOE before going on to run the largest sports betting syndicate in the US for the past decade. Along the way, he founded Imawhale Staking, backing professional poker players, and built a short-term rental real estate portfolio along the Alabama Gulf Coast, experience he later channeled into building Imawhale's desk from the ground up.

Advisory Board members serve solely in their personal capacities. Institutional affiliations are provided for identification only and do not imply endorsement by their employers or affiliated organizations. Board members trade on various exchanges, and some have relationships with operators. See Disclosures for more information.