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Clear Street bolsters team with Pardasani appointment
09 July 2026 US
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Clear Street has made three senior leadership hires, including the appointment of Puneet Pardasani as global head of institutional sales and sales trading.
In this role, Pardasani will oversee Clear Street’s institutional sales and sales trading functions and expand the firm’s distribution strategy across its institutional client base.
Based in New York, he will report to John DiBacco, head of markets.
Pardasani joins from Bank of America, where he served as global head of OneTouch, cross-asset distribution and helped build and scale the cross-asset distribution platform.
Before Bank of America, he spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, developing a deep foundation across sales and distribution serving institutional clients.
DiBacco says: “Puneet has spent his career building the distribution engines that connect sophisticated investors to global markets, and that is exactly the capability our platform is built to scale.
“His arrival brings institutional sales, sales trading, and distribution onto one unified system and will help us deliver on our mission to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset in every market.”
Allan Amitay also joins as managing director, multi-asset sales, after more than 15 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a managing director in derivatives sales.
In addition, the firm welcomes Scott Block as managing director, sales trader.
Black arrives from Bank of America, where he was managing director and head of Americas OneTouch distribution within global equities, and earlier spent more than a decade on the multi-asset sales and electronic trading team at Goldman Sachs.
The appointments are part of the continued expansion of the company after recently adding broker-dealer clearing veterans Vito Laurenzano and Lou Caramanica as managing directors under Chris Tufano, head of clearing.
In this role, Pardasani will oversee Clear Street’s institutional sales and sales trading functions and expand the firm’s distribution strategy across its institutional client base.
Based in New York, he will report to John DiBacco, head of markets.
Pardasani joins from Bank of America, where he served as global head of OneTouch, cross-asset distribution and helped build and scale the cross-asset distribution platform.
Before Bank of America, he spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, developing a deep foundation across sales and distribution serving institutional clients.
DiBacco says: “Puneet has spent his career building the distribution engines that connect sophisticated investors to global markets, and that is exactly the capability our platform is built to scale.
“His arrival brings institutional sales, sales trading, and distribution onto one unified system and will help us deliver on our mission to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset in every market.”
Allan Amitay also joins as managing director, multi-asset sales, after more than 15 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently as a managing director in derivatives sales.
In addition, the firm welcomes Scott Block as managing director, sales trader.
Black arrives from Bank of America, where he was managing director and head of Americas OneTouch distribution within global equities, and earlier spent more than a decade on the multi-asset sales and electronic trading team at Goldman Sachs.
The appointments are part of the continued expansion of the company after recently adding broker-dealer clearing veterans Vito Laurenzano and Lou Caramanica as managing directors under Chris Tufano, head of clearing.
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