On-chain lending company Birch Hill announces core team appointments

On-chain lending company Birch Hill announced on its official account the appointment of Jonathan Thomas as the head of curation. Brad Schlagel, Alex Cornwell, and Ian Plosker joined from the on-chain treasury platform Yearn, responsible for the on-chain lending strategy Birch Hill Absolute Value, while Traver Normandi joined from the on-chain lending risk management company Gauntlet, responsible for business development.

According to Birch Hill's announcement, Schlagel previously led the development of Yearn v3 and is currently the portfolio manager and head of strategy architecture; Plosker is the portfolio manager and head of platform engineering; Cornwell was previously responsible for Yearn's business development and is now the head of capital formation. Thomas has worked with the Yearn team on strategies based on the Yearn v3 treasury standard and is now responsible for treasury curation. Normandi previously worked at Gauntlet in institutional business development.

Birch Hill is a financial services company headquartered in New York that evaluates, builds, and distributes credit on public chains, and serves as the official curator for the lending protocol Morpho. The company announced on October 28 that it has completed a $4 million seed round of financing, led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from ParaFi Capital, Castle Island Ventures, and Nascent, bringing total funding to $6.5 million. The company stated in a follow-up post that it will further introduce tokenized credit securities oABS and Birch Hill Absolute Value.