Stephen Nash Joins Clear Street as Chief Business Officer, Global Partnerships

Clear Street has announced the appointment of Stephen Nash as Chief Business Officer, Global Partnerships. In the role, Nash will lead commercial strategy for the firm's work with foreign financial institutions, banks and fintechs that use Clear Street's infrastructure to offer their own clients access to US markets.

Uri Cohen, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Clear Street said:

"Our global build continues at a rapid pace, and global partnerships are the natural next step, extending our platform to the institutions serving millions of investors around the world. An opportunity of that scale demands leadership that has lived on both sides of the business, and Stephen brings it."

Nash spent nearly nine years at DriveWealth, most recently as Chief Commercial Officer, leading global commercial strategy for the brokerage-infrastructure platform that lets banks, fintechs and financial institutions offer investing to their customers. He built and led partnerships with sophisticated brokers and digital disrupters across the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

Prior to DriveWealth, Nash spent a decade in cross-border capital markets banking, co-heading the International Markets Group at Cowen and Company (now TD Cowen), with earlier roles at Piper Jaffray (now Piper Sandler) and Citigroup.

Stephen Nash, Chief Business Officer, Global Partnerships, Clear Street

Stephen Nash, Chief Business Officer, Global Partnerships, Clear Street said:

"I've spent my career around the evolving complexity of cross-border capital markets, first as a banker bringing foreign issuers into the US, then helping institutions bring their own customers in. Clear Street's infrastructure was built and proven for the most demanding institutional clients in the market, and extending that same standard to banks, brokers and fintechs around the world is the opportunity I came here to deliver."

Clear Street is a cloud-native financial infrastructure platform giving investors access to assets across markets. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York with offices globally, Clear Street serves active traders, hedge funds, market makers, broker-dealers, ETF issuers and corporates worldwide.

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