Solving problems we understand.

Clear Street is the product of founder pain and the solution to a decades-old problem.

Meet our leadership team

Clear Street was founded by industry experts. They experienced the difficulties with limited access and missed opportunities caused by operating on outdated infrastructure.
Chris Pento
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sachin Kumar
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Christy Moccia
Chief Compliance Officer
Andy Volz
Chief Operating Officer
Nilimp Bhatt
Chief Risk Officer
Chris Pento
Co-Founder,
Chief Executive Officer
Sachin Kumar
Co-Founder,
Chief Technology Officer
Andy Volz
Chief Operating Officer
Steve Bisgay
Chief Financial Officer
Nilimp Bhatt
Chief Risk Officer
Christy Moccia
Chief Compliance Officer
Jon Daplyn
Chief Information Officer
Kevin McCarthy
Chief Administrative Officer


What we’ve accomplished so far

Our platform is only four years old, yet we're already competing with some of the largest players in the market.
2023
Scaling to new heights
  • Receives a strategic investment from IMC Investments, the venture capital arm of global market maker IMC
  • Raises $270mm in additional Series B funding, increasing round to $435mm and valuation to $2 billion
  • Makes key hires in investment banking and acquires cloud-native futures clearing platform
  • Expands asset class capabilities to include fixed income
2022
Expanding the Clear Street platform
2021
Grows brokerage business
  • Handles over $3 billion in trades on an average trading day
  • Adds another 120+ employees to support rapid client growth and product development, including new COO, Andy Volz
  • Grows client equity on platform by ~250% yoy to total more than $1.5 billion
2020
Expands our brokerage business
  • Finalizes the acquisition of a broker serving sophisticated traders to seed platform growth
  • Nilimp Bhatt joins the team as CRO
  • Delivers 500+ product updates including support for U.S. options
  • Receives regulatory approval to offer portfolio margin financing to clients 
  • Doubles the size of the Clear Street team
2019
Opens brokerage & launches platform
  • Christy Moccia joins the team as CCO
  • Begins serving prime brokerage clients by invitation-only
  • Offers institutional-quality trading & execution, securities lending, and margin financing
  • Starts processing trades of U.S. equities using its clearing and custody platform
2018
Prime brokerage build begins
  • Enters the prime brokerage market
  • Chris Pento and Sachin Kumar join Clear Street as co-founders
  • Receives regulatory approvals needed to operate a clearing broker dealer