Clear Street — Modernizing the brokerage ecosystem
Chris Pento
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
- MD at Exos Financial
- MD at Knight Capital Group
- 30 years financial services experience
- Rutgers University
Chris Pento serves as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Clear Street. Chris has more than 30 years of financial services experience. Prior to Clear Street, he was most notably associated with Knight Capital Americas, L.P., where he oversaw the build of Knight’s proprietary clearing and settlement platform and the migration of all of Knight’s proprietary and customer-facing RVP/DVP accounts to the self-clearing platform. Pento was ultimately named Chief Executive Officer and FinOP of Knight’s principal US broker-dealer.
