• Kristi Tange appointed as Group Chief Risk Officer
• Clare Weaver MBA, becomes Chief Legal Officer

London, 15 January 2026: ClearToken, the digital financial market infrastructure firm, today announces two senior appointments to enhance its Senior Leadership Team and further strengthen its legal and risk functions.

Kristi Tange has been appointed Group Chief Risk Officer, to lead governance, risk, and strategic oversight, including compliance, communications, and regulatory relations. She brings nearly three decades of experience at Goldman Sachs across operations, risk, and finance in the US, UK, and Japan.

Most recently, Kristi served as Global Head of Operational Risk and Resilience at Goldman Sachs, where she led a strategic uplift of operational risk and UK resilience programmes. Previously, she headed Recovery and Resolution Planning, successfully filing two US Title I resolution plans. Her experience also includes enterprise risk, where she led risk identification, and senior leadership roles in operations across liquidity and collateral, client onboarding (including financial crimes), client assets, data, regulatory reporting, tax, derivatives, and treasury.

Clare Weaver, MBA, has become Chief Legal Officer, where she will lead the Legal & Regulatory function for the Group, providing strategic legal and regulatory advisory support to the CEO and Boards and managing the Group’s legal affairs. Clare has been ClearToken’s legal counsel and Head of Legal & Regulatory and Company Secretary since inception in 2023.

Clare brings over 20 years of experience across specialist Corporate, Commercial, M&A, fintech, and financial regulatory matters both in private practice and in industry, for more than 15 years deeply covering “general counsel” roles spanning all legal matters (including employment, commercial, corporate and finance). Clare previously established the Nomura Digital Office legal function and was founding interim CLO of Laser Digital (part of Nomura), before joining ClearToken in 2023.

Maintaining developmental momentum

These recent appointments are the latest milestones in ClearToken’s growth, as the company seeks to unlock the full potential of 24/7 digital markets by offering horizontal post-trade services with the legal certainty offered by a regulated financial market infrastructure (FMI). They are also important steps towards the company’s ambition to provide clearing and settlement services across digital asset markets for securities, derivatives and financing transactions.

In 2025, ClearToken achieved FCA Authorisation to launch its delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement platform, selected Nasdaq as its technology partner, and launched CT Settle, its DvP settlement platform for digital assets. ClearToken is now proceeding with its formal application for authorisation from the Bank of England as a Central Counterparty (CCP).

Benjamin Santos-Stephens, CEO of ClearToken, said: “We are delighted to welcome Kristi to ClearToken and congratulate Clare on her new role with us. These appointments build on the momentum we achieved in 2025 and are important milestones for us as we continue to build for the future. Such high calibre appointments bring with them a wealth of relevant experience and expertise and are welcome enhancements to our senior leadership team, as we continue with our strategy to create the world’s first clearing house and settlement depository for both tokenised traditional and digitally native assets.”

Kristi Tange, Chief Risk Officer of ClearToken, commented: “It is a very exciting time to join ClearToken, which is well positioned to unify the traditional finance and digital assets worlds and unlock the massive potential of tokenisation. I am looking forward to working with the energetic and visionary team here to build the financial market infrastructure which will underpin the future of global, 24/7 markets.”

Clare Weaver, Chief Legal Officer at ClearToken said: “Having worked with ClearToken well before joining full time in 2023, I’m extremely proud of what we have achieved together so far. As the legislative landscape, and therefore opportunities, for digital assets continues to develop across the globe, I look forward to helping our strong, diverse team deliver on our growth ambitions in 2026 and beyond, and at the same time ensuring that legal certainty and compliance remains at the core of what we do.”

ENDS

To learn more about ClearToken, please visit www.cleartoken.io or reach out to info@cleartoken.io.

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