Tange and Weaver join ClearToken’s senior leadership team
15 January 2026 UK
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ClearToken, a digital financial market infrastructure firm, has announced two senior appointments.
The firm says that these appointments aim at enhancing 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, Tange served as global head of operational risk and resilience at Goldman Sachs, where she led an 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, has become chief legal officer, where she will lead the legal and regulatory function for the group, providing legal and regulatory advisory support to the CEO and boards and managing the firm’s legal affairs.
Weaver has been ClearToken's legal counsel and head of legal and regulatory and company secretary since inception in 2023.
She 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.
Weaver previously established the Nomura Digital Office legal function and was founding interim chief legal officer of Laser Digital (part of Nomura), before joining ClearToken in 2023.
Benjamin Santos-Stephens, CEO of ClearToken, notes: “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.”
Commenting on her appointment, Tange says: “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.”
Weaver adds: “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.”
The firm says that these appointments aim at enhancing 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, Tange served as global head of operational risk and resilience at Goldman Sachs, where she led an 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, has become chief legal officer, where she will lead the legal and regulatory function for the group, providing legal and regulatory advisory support to the CEO and boards and managing the firm’s legal affairs.
Weaver has been ClearToken's legal counsel and head of legal and regulatory and company secretary since inception in 2023.
She 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.
Weaver previously established the Nomura Digital Office legal function and was founding interim chief legal officer of Laser Digital (part of Nomura), before joining ClearToken in 2023.
Benjamin Santos-Stephens, CEO of ClearToken, notes: “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.”
Commenting on her appointment, Tange says: “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.”
Weaver adds: “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.”
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