Sara Carlesimo

Associate General Counsel Citadel Securities, LLC

Sara Carlesimo is currently Associate General Counsel for Citadel Securities, LLC, where she is responsible for legal and regulatory coverage of multiple asset classes across the firm’s sales and trading businesses, and provides coverage and insight on market structure and regulatory issues within the broker-dealer space.

Sara was formerly Co-Global Head of Markets Compliance for BNY Mellon, as well as Head of US Compliance for Fixed Income & Equities, Securities Finance, and Liquidity Services, and Chief Compliance Officer BNY Mellon Capital Markets, LLC. Sara also spent a number of years in the firm’s legal department as Director and Managing Counsel, Markets Legal for the Americas, offering legal and regulatory coverage to the U.S. Cash Equities and Equity Derivative Sales and Trading businesses, Equity Capital Markets and FX Strategy. Prior to BNY Mellon, Sara held legal and compliance positions at Barclays, NASDAQ OMX and Alliance Bernstein L.P. Sara received her law degree from Brooklyn Law School and her undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College. She currently sits as a member of the SIFMA Compliance and Legal Future Leaders Committee.