---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-24-006878"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BCHG"
cik: "0001732409"
company_name: "Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCH)"
filed_at: "2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T13:02:10.830582+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grayscale Investments appoints Peter Mintzberg as CEO, succeeding Michael Sonnenshein

## Summary
- Sonnenshein steps down immediately; CFO Edward McGee serves as interim principal executive officer until Aug 15, 2024.
- Peter Mintzberg becomes CEO effective Aug 15, 2024, joining Grayscale's Board; previously Global Head of Strategy at Goldman Sachs.
- Mintzberg held leadership roles at BlackRock, OppenheimerFunds, Invesco, and McKinsey; MBA from Harvard.
- Sonnenshein grew Grayscale AUM from $60M to ~$30B and led the SEC court victory for the first spot Bitcoin ETF.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-24-006878
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BCHG
- cik: 0001732409
- company_name: Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCH)
- filed_at: 2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1732409/000095010324006878/0000950103-24-006878-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1732409/000095010324006878/dp211412_8k-bchg.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-24-006878
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-24-006878.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-24-006878.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Edward McGee was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCH).
  - Action: served as interim principal executive officer
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Mr. Edward McGee, the Chief Financial Officer of Grayscale and principal financial officer of the Company, will serve as principal executive officer on an interim basis until Mr. Mintzberg’s commencement date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1732409/000095010324006878/0000950103-24-006878-index.htm
- Executive change
  Michael Sonnenshein departed as Chief Executive Officer at Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCH).
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: who has decided to step down from his position, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1732409/000095010324006878/0000950103-24-006878-index.htm
- Executive change
  Peter Mintzberg was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Grayscale Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCH).
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: announced that it has approved the appointment of Peter Mintzberg to serve as Grayscale’s new Chief Executive Officer and the principal executive officer of the Company, and a member of the Board of Directors of Grayscale, effective August 15, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1732409/000095010324006878/0000950103-24-006878-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.