Connor Flanagan
COO @ Birch Hill Holdings | Co-Founder @ Unit Zero Labs (acq.)
- Role
- Co-founder & COO at Birch Hill Holdings
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Connor Flanagan
Co-Founder & COO of Birch Hill Holdings, following the acquisition of Unit Zero Labs by…
Experience
Co-founder & COO
Sep 2025 — Present
Leading operations and protocol development for an institutional digital asset management company that bridges traditional finance and DeFi through risk-curated yield strategies.Following our acquisition of Unit Zero Labs, I oversee Birch Hill Labs\' protocol infrastructure while coordinating across our two core subsidiaries:Birch Hill Labs (Direct Oversight)- Building Benchmark - institutional lending protocol on MegaETH powered by Morpho- Managing risk curation framework and vault strategy development- Targeting $500M TVL across the Birch Hill product suite within 12 months- Leading partnerships with Morpho, MegaETH and other channel partnersCross-Functional Responsibilities- Coordinating Labs and Solutions go-to-market for seamless client handoffs- Overseeing operational infrastructure across both subsidiaries- Managing protocol economics and revenue optimizationKey Initiatives- Launching KYC-gated institutional vaults with qualified custody rails- Developing proprietary risk ratings framework- Building automated risk monitoring and board-ready reporting systems- Scaling from $50M to $500M protocol TVLPreviously built Unit Zero Labs from inception, advising 20+ protocols on tokenomics and risk frameworks. Before crypto, spent 3 years at BlackRock working on the Aladdin platform, leading integrations and risk analytics that now inform our institutional approach.We\'re proving that institutional capital can flow onchain without compromising on risk management or compliance. The infrastructure we\'re building today will power the next $100B of institutional DeFi adoption.
Education
University of Richmond - Robins School of Business
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General
2014 — 2018
University of Richmond
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Finance, General
2014 — 2018
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