The object storage layer for AI

Gleb Budman

Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Board

Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies. Gleb earned a M.B.A. and B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dan Spraggins

Chief Technical Officer

Dan Spraggins joined Backblaze in January 2026 and serves as chief technology officer. He brings more than two decades of experience leading large-scale software, platform, and AI engineering for global technology companies. Prior to Backblaze, Dan served as vice president of engineering at HP, where he led global software engineering teams responsible for AI-driven products and platforms. Before that, he held senior engineering leadership roles at Rackspace and CA Technologies. Throughout his career, Dan has focused on modernizing architectures and delivering reliable, scalable software systems. At Backblaze, Dan is responsible for advancing our storage cloud, driving innovation, and ensuring our platform continues to deliver performance, durability, and value. Dan earned a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.

Marc Suidan

Chief Financial Officer

Marc Suidan joined Backblaze in 2024 as our chief financial officer. He brings more than 20 years of operational, strategic, and financial experience with both growth start-ups and global Fortune 500 companies in the technology, media, and consumer industries. Previously, he was the CFO of The Beachbody Company (NYSE: BODi), and Senior Partner at PwC, where his clients included large and notable technology companies and private equity funds. Marc sits on the Board of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and the Silicon Valley International School. Marc earned his Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Management in Accounting and Finance from McGill University.

Anuj Kumar

Chief Revenue Officer

Anuj Kumar joined Backblaze in 2026 and serves as Chief Revenue Officer, leading the company's global sales, channel, revenue operations, demand generation, customer success and support. He brings more than two decades of experience scaling cloud and infrastructure revenue organizations, most recently at SUSE and before that as SVP of Worldwide Cloud Sales and Customer Success at NetApp, where he grew the company's cloud business from $100 million to nearly $600 million ARR. Earlier in his career, he held senior sales and go-to-market leadership roles at VMware, Rackspace, Verisign, and Red Hat. Anuj holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from BIT Mesra and has completed executive programs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

James Rowell

Senior Vice President, Cloud Operations

James Rowell joined Backblaze in May of 2025 and became senior vice president of cloud operations in December of 2025. He brings more than 25 years of experience leading cloud infrastructure and global operations for enterprise technology organizations. Prior to Backblaze, James served as Director of Engineering at F5, where he led global cloud, infrastructure, and service delivery functions. Before that, he held senior leadership roles including SVP of Cloud Operations & Delivery at NTT Ltd. and Dimension Data. James’ expertise spans cloud operations, infrastructure engineering, service delivery, network and data-center management, and operational strategy. At Backblaze, James is focused on the performance and availability of our global storage cloud while driving operational efficiency. James earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration & Information Technology from the University of Phoenix.

Robert Fitt

Chief Human Resources Officer

Robert Fitt joined Backblaze as the chief human resources officer (CHRO) in 2022. Before joining Backblaze, he led HR functions for Turntide Technologies, 360 Behavioral Health, Mobilitie, Broadcom Corporation, and others. A versatile and seasoned CHRO, Robert brings more than 20 years of global leadership in strategic HR, talent management, technology, organizational design, compensation and benefits, and DEI. Robert earned his bachelor’s degree in human resources management from Staffordshire University, and his Master’s degree in employment law from the University of East Anglia.

Barbara Nelson

Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee

Barbara Nelson has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2020. Ms. Nelson also serves as a board member of Oneview Healthcare, Plc, a publicly traded healthcare technology company, since October 2023, including Chair of the Board of Oneview Healthcare, Plc, since October 2024, and Omniscient Technology (o8t), a private company pioneering AI applied to brain connectivity, since October 2022. Ms. Nelson was the Vice President of Cloud Services, Software and Strategy for the consumer group of Western Digital Corporation, a hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company, from May 2017 to April 2020. Prior to Western Digital Corporation, Ms. Nelson served as the General Manager and Executive Vice President of IronKey Mobile Security at Imation Corporation from 2013 to 2016. From July 2008 to March 2010, Ms. Nelson was the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Element Labs, a private company and from October 2003 to December 2007, she was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the board of directors of NeoScale Systems, a private company. Ms. Nelson earned her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. We believe that Ms. Nelson is qualified to serve as a member of our Board because of her extensive experience advising technology companies as both a director and executive, as well as decades of SaaS, storage and security experience.

Jocelyn Carter-Miller

Chair of the Compensation Committee

Jocelyn Carter-Miller has served as a member of our Board of Directors since October 2020. Since August 2004, Ms. Carter-Miller has been President of TechEdVentures, Inc., an educational company; since 2015 owner of SoulTranSync, LLC, an audio wave synchronization technology and meditation company; and since 2016 President of Jocelyn Carter-Miller, LLC, a management consulting firm. From February 2002 to March 2004, Ms. Carter-Miller was the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Office Depot, Inc., an office supply retailer, and from 1999 until 2002, she was the Corporate Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Motorola, Inc., a telecommunications company. Ms. Carter-Miller has served on the board of directors of public companies for over 20 years, including the Principal Financial Group, Inc., a financial investment management and insurance company, since September 2001, Interpublic Group, an advertising company, since July 2007, and Arlo Technologies, Inc., a provider of home, business and personal security solutions company, since August 2018. From 2009 until August 2018, Ms. Carter-Miller also served as a member of the board of directors of Netgear, Inc., a computer networking company. Ms. Carter-Miller earned her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois.

Evelyn D’An

Chair of the Audit Committee

Evelyn D’An has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2021. Ms. D'An is President of D’An Financial Services, a strategic consulting firm she established in 2004. Ms. D’An is also a former partner of Ernst & Young, an accounting and professional services firm, where she spent 18 years serving clients in retail, consumer products, technology, financial services, media and other sectors. Ms. D’An also currently serves on the board of directors of Zoomcar, Inc., a car sharing platform company, where she has served since April 2023 and GHD Group Pty Ltd., a technical professional services firm, where she has served since March 2020, and she is the chair of the audit committee of both companies. Ms. D’An has served on numerous other corporate boards since 2006, including as a director of Summer Infant, Inc., manufacturer of infant and juvenile products, from November 2016 to June 2022. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the State University of Albany.

Earl E. Fry

Board Member

Earl E. Fry has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2021. Mr. Fry currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Hawaiian Airlines, an airline company, and has served as the chair of the audit and finance committee since May 2016. From December 1999 to August 2015, Mr. Fry served in various capacities at Informatica Corporation, an enterprise data integration software company, including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Customer Officer and Executive Vice President, Operations Strategy. Mr. Fry has also served on the board of directors of Central Pacific Financial Corp., a commercial bank, since April 2005 and is a member of the audit committee and risk committee. Mr. Fry served on the board of directors of Xactly Corporation, a cloud-based enterprise software and services company, from September 2005 to August 2017. Mr. Fry received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Hawai’i and has an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Gleb Budman

Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Board

Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our board of directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies. Gleb earned a M.B.A. and B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Brian Wilson

Co-Founder

Brian Wilson is one of our co-founders and served as our chief technology officer until 2022. Brian’s inspiration that safeguarding data shouldn’t be hard lit the spark for Backblaze, and his code provides the original foundations of the Backblaze Computer Backup client. Brian served as a member of our Board of Directors from 2007 until 2022. Prior to his time at Backblaze, Brian was a co-founder and the chief technology officer of MailFrontier, which was subsequently sold to SonicWall. Brian also served in senior positions at Kendara, Silicon Graphics, and Apple. He earned his M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a B.S. in engineering physics and B.S. in computer science from Oregon State University.

Billy Ng

Co-Founder

Billy Ng is a co-founder and served as our full stack architect until 2023. He designed and built the original software layer that runs the network infrastructure for the Backblaze data centers and served as a mentor for the Engineering team. Prior to joining Backblaze, Billy was a lead engineer at SonicWall, MailFrontier, and Excite@Home. Billy earned a B.S. in computer information systems from Hawaii Pacific University.

Casey Jones

Co-Founder

Casey Jones is one of our co-founders and served as our vice president of design until 2023. Casey’s design sensibility and user interface experience have informed the customer experience from our launch onward. Prior to Backblaze, Casey was the design lead for SonicWall’s products, where he developed designs that are deployed in over one million businesses worldwide. He led user interface and web design and development at MailFrontier and at Kendara through its acquisition by Excite@Home. Starting in design in the early days of the web, Casey developed event sites for companies, including Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, and PeopleSoft. Casey earned a B.S. in economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Damon Uyeda

Co-Founder

Damon Uyeda is a co-founder and served as Mac architect from 2008 to 2023. Prior to joining Backblaze, Damon held senior technical positions at three startups as well as Excite@Home and Oracle. Damon's technical vision, passion, and dedication to detail of development for Mac operating systems allowed Backblaze to be instantly accepted by the highly critical Mac community as a product worthy of their loyalty.

Tim Nufire

Co-Founder

Tim Nufire is a co-founder and served as chief cloud officer until December 2022. He was a member of our Board of Directors from April 2009 to June 2023. Tim developed, built, and laid the first building blocks of the Backblaze Storage Cloud. Prior to his time at Backblaze, Tim was the vice president of engineering at Aplia, which was acquired by the Thompson Corporation. He was also a director at MailFrontier and SearchFox, and held senior engineering positions at Apple, Adobe, and others. Tim earned his B.S. in mathematics with the highest distinction from the University of Kansas.

Nilay Patel

Co-Founder

Nilay served as our vice president of sales until 2024. Nilay was part of the founding team at Backblaze and launched Backblaze Business Backup and the partner programs. In early 2011, Nilay left to co-found Selligy, which was acquired by Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) in mid-2015. Soon thereafter, Nilay returned to bring his unique background in development and sales back to Backblaze. In addition to Selligy, Nilay was the first employee in Europe for both Electric Cloud and MailFrontier. He opened up the territories by selling products to Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens Medical, Bertelsmann, and other large enterprises. Nilay earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.