Blaize Wallace

Experience

Trust Machines

General Manager 2023 - Present (over 3 years)

Granite Finance (DeFi lending) lead.
- Executive / product leader. Led product, engineering, design, marketing, partnerships, and go to market.
- Built Granite Finance... more

Granite Finance

Founder 2023 - 2025 (over 2 years)

Granite Finance is Bitcoin-collateralized stablecoin lending DeFi protocol that protects borrowers from risks inherent to traditional DeFi lending through no rehypothecation... more

Exit

Rentlytics

Chief Operating Officer 2013 - 2019 (about 5 years)

- Co-led acquisition at 9x ARR, managing all due diligence (financial, operational, and legal).
- Co-raised $20M+ in venture capital funding, owning all modeling, data... more

Bluelight Global

Cofounder / COO 2013 (9 months)

Ideiasnet

MIT MBA Strategy Advisor 2012 - 2013 (3 months)

Exit

Locu

Business Development 2012 (7 months)

Deloitte Consulting

Consultant 2007 - 2011 (over 3 years)

Employee

Deloitte Consulting, Locu, Rentlytics, Bluelight Global, Ideiasnet, Granite Finance, Trust Machines

Education

About

Achievements

Built Granite Finance, a DeFi lending protocol that achieved $25M TVL (25% of chain’s DeFi TVL) on a nascent blockchain (Stacks).
Built OCP Tech, a delta-neutral crypto prop fund that outperformed it's BTC benchmark by 37% with a sharpe of 6.5.
Built Rentlytics, a real estate SaaS that sold to Realpage at 9x ARR.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Management Business Planning & Strategy Business Strategy Business Development Entrepreneurship Customer Acquisition & Engagement Customer Service Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Bitcoin Blockchain Smart Contracts Startup Founder Business Operations

Locations

San Francisco New York City Los Angeles

Blaize Wallace

Founder and product leader experienced in taking protocols, products, and companies from 0 to 1.