"Chris has a breadth and depth of experience across the real estate and finance sectors, as well as extensive regional expertise, which will significantly help us scale our loan book."
Chris has over 40 years of experience in banking and finance across both high street and specialist finance providers. His most recent position was as a relationship director at Assetz Capital where he focused on providing specialist development finance to residential and commercial schemes across the UK.
Previously, Chris was a corporate account manager with Handelsbanken where he worked on large-size deals of up to £100m including commercial mortgages, commercial property development, residential development facilities, syndicated facilities and trade finance. Chris’ multi-decade real estate and banking career also includes roles within the property development lending teams at Bank of Scotland and Barclays.
At Blend, Chris will help the firm deploy a pool of funding recently committed by several family offices and a group of investors. The appointment will also help Blend expand its regional footprint.
Yann Murciano, CEO at Blend Network, commented: “We are delighted to welcome such an experienced property finance professional as Chris to our growing senior lending team. Chris has a breadth and depth of experience across the real estate and finance sectors, as well as extensive regional expertise, which will significantly help us scale our loan book. Furthermore, Chris’ mindset tightly aligns with ours at Blend Network in that we want to do the deal. Chris’ appointment will help us expand our broker community and ultimately deploy our abundant cash.”
Chris Mason added: “I am very pleased to be joining Blend Network at such an exciting time. The company has already gained recognition as one of the most solid and trustworthy specialist development finance lenders. Its business model, strategy, flexible and safe source of capital, and risk appetite offer experience property developers flexible, secured funding. I believe the company has a great future and I look forward to playing a strong role in its expansion and success. Even after 40 years in the industry, I remain hungry to do business with clients both old and new.”
