UNION Welcomes Bill Yialamas as an Advisor
UNION is pleased to announce the onboarding of our newest advisor, Bill Yialamas. Bill is an experienced executive with over 20 years of experience in banking, structured finance, consumer lending, and venture capital.
Bill is currently the Co-President and CFO of Liberty Lending — a leading fintech platform for personal loans — and is a Partner at Common Ocean, a hybrid VC firm based in New York City. Prior to his current roles, Bill performed roles at major investment banks including UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Lehman Brothers. Bill holds a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.
Bill’s wealth of experience in TradFi brings significant advantages to UNION’s advisory team as we engage traditional market participants and scale-out our product line of asset protection pools, C-OP, CDOs, and Crypto Default Swaps. DeFi’s cross-over with TradFi is often spared from discussions within crypto circles, but onboarding financial professionals like Bill with venerated track records can help meld the experiences of TradFi with the underlying power and novelty of DeFi.
“As I’ve watched the evolution of FinTech through my career, success for these platforms has always come from the need for strong central players to encourage adoption. DeFi starts from a different place, where innovation can happen more rapidly, but now long-term success requires the development of reputation and strong bridges to allow consumers and institutions to move their transactions to environments with the amount of centralization that best meets their expectations for service,” said Yialamas. “Looking at the UNION team’s work and approach to protection and protection-based products, I believe they have a stronger understanding of the models, culture, and expectations they will be meeting from the TradFi side of conversations than many of the other participants in the space. I’m excited to be working with them.”
Understanding the nuances of how robust TradFi modeling, but also expectations for service, reputation, and reliability can be ported to DeFi protocols is paramount to the future success of UNION, and we’re thrilled to have Bill Yialamas on board.
About UNION
UNION is a technology platform that combines bundled protection and a liquid secondary market with a multi-token model. DeFi participants manage their multi-layer risks across smart contracts and protocols in one scalable system. UNION decreases the entry barriers for retail users and lays the foundation for institutional investors. UNION’s full-stack DeFi protection is inclusive, composable, and brings battle-tested capital and pricing models from TradFi to the DeFi ecosystem.
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