Data is the digital world’s most precious resource

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 Beach

Chief Technology Officer

Brian Beach joined Backblaze in 2013 and has served as chief technology officer since 2022. As CTO, he brings decades of engineering experience as well as a passion for building next-generation distributed storage solutions. Prior to his time at Backblaze, Brian worked as the vice president and principal engineer for TiVo, as well as holding senior engineering positions at Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard. Brian’s experience at Backblaze ranges from being our first customer in 2008 to building our storage cloud’s vault architecture—the foundation for our durability, scalability, and performance. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in information science, and his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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.

Dan Spraggins

SVP of Engineering

Dan Spraggins joined Backblaze in January 2026 as our senior vice president of engineering. 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.

Rhett Dillingham

Senior Vice President, Product

Rhett Dillingham joined Backblaze in February 2026 as our senior vice president of product. He brings more than two decades of product management and design leadership experience building high growth, globally developed and delivered cloud platforms. Prior to Backblaze, Rhett served as senior vice president of product at HackerOne, where he led the company’s product management and design functions in AI-powered platform development for continuous threat exposure reduction. Before that, he was vice president of product at Sumo Logic and Rackspace after holding product leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and AMD. As a product leader, he specializes in cross-functionally integrating customer insights with advanced technology trends to deliver innovative, customer-centric solutions. Rhett earned his Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Jason Wakeam

Chief Revenue Officer

Jason Wakeam joined Backblaze as our chief revenue officer (CRO) in 2024. Jason brings nearly three decades of experience building high impact sales teams and driving competitive market share growth for organizations of all sizes. Before joining Backblaze, he held sales and business development leadership roles at a range of industry-leading companies including SnapLogic, Cloudera, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard. Led by a passion for emerging technologies and growth strategies, Jason is a leader recognized for helping SaaS companies identify areas of revenue growth achievable through new strategies across all areas of an organization. Jason earned his HBA in Business Administration from Ivey Business School at Western University and his B.A. in Economics at King’s University.

Patrick Thomas

Vice President, Marketing

Patrick Thomas is the vice president of marketing and has led content, communications, and strategy since joining Backblaze in 2019. He has specialized in marketing strategy and content development across a number of industries, including publishing, gaming, and consumer and enterprise cloud solutions. As a marketing leader he specializes in building and scaling new growth motions at companies that are disrupting industries. He has developed and edited New York Times bestsellers and Wall Street Journal books of the year, written for the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Patrick earned his bachelor's degree in English from St. Olaf College.

Anu Patil

Chief of Staff

Anu Patil joined Backblaze as a senior business intelligence analyst in 2019 and was promoted to Vice President, Revenue Strategy & Operations in 2023. After orchestrating a series of organization-wide transformational projects across 2024 and 2025, she took on the Chief of Staff role in 2025. Before joining Backblaze, she led analytics teams at companies including NextDoor, Concur, CREDO Mobile and others. Anu brings more than 15 years of experience in growth and retention analytics, predictive modeling and forecasting, and revenue optimization. Anu earned her bachelor's degree in economics from Tufts University.

Mark Potter

Chief Information Security Officer

Mark Potter has served as our chief information security officer since early 2021. He brings experience from over 30 years working in cybersecurity, IT, governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, and data protection and privacy program design and implementation. He previously served as the chief information security officer at multiple federal healthcare contractor organizations, and also served as the Director of IT Security at a publicly traded international satellite radio company. Our CISO is an IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy and holds over 35 security, privacy, and risk management certifications.

James Rowell

SVP of 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.

Evangeline Cheung

Head of Legal and Compliance

Evangeline Cheung joined Backblaze in 2020 and currently serves as head of legal and compliance. She brings more than 20 years of experience advising technology companies on corporate governance, commercial transactions, litigation, compliance, privacy, and risk management. Before joining Backblaze, Evangeline held senior legal leadership roles at technology companies including ON Semiconductor, Quantenna Communications, Silver Spring Networks, and Itron. At Backblaze, Evangeline serves as a key member of the senior leadership team, advising on enterprise strategy, risk, and governance to support the company’s long-term growth. She is an active member of the California Bar and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Juris Doctor from the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific.

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.

Max Altschuler

Founder and General Partner, GTM Fund

Max Altschuler is the founder and general partner of GTMfund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on B2B SaaS, AI, and go-to-market innovation. He previously founded Sales Hacker, a leading B2B sales community, and served as vice president of marketing at Outreach, where he helped scale the company’s growth. Max is a recognized thought leader featured in Forbes, Inc., HBR, MIT Review, Time, Salesforce, and Nasdaq, and was named one of LinkedIn's Top Voices of 2018 for Sales and Crunchbase’s 25 Sales Leaders to Follow in 2020. He holds a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Entrepreneurship from Arizona State University.

Nicole Baer

Chief Marketing Officer, Carta

Nicole Baer is a seasoned tech marketing executive with more than 25 years of experience in commercial roles. She currently serves as chief marketing officer at Carta, where she is responsible for all markets and products as well as go-to-market innovation. Prior to Carta, Nicole held senior roles at Logitech, Zendesk, and Aon. She has also been a two-time founder and is a limited partner in GTMfund and Todd and Rahul Capital in addition to angel investing in early-stage startups. Nicole holds an MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara.

Colby Greene

Senior Vice President, Data Solutions & Partnerships, Zoominfo

Colby Greene is an experienced go-to-market and operations professional with a background in sales, marketing, and revenue operations. She currently serves as senior vice president at Zoominfo, partnering with companies ranging from startups to the largest technology companies in the world to drive digital transformation. Prior to Zoominfo, Colby held leadership roles at RingLead, including chief operating officer. Colby also serves as a Limited Partner of the GTM Fund. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Northwestern University.

Elias Mendoza

Strategic Transformation Leader, Backblaze

Elias Mendoza is a seasoned operating executive with a strong track record of translating strategy into disciplined execution. As Partner and COO at Siris Capital, he led and supported multiple investments, overseeing complex transformations, serving in board roles, and helping guide companies through successful exits. He has also partnered closely with management teams on sales and go-to-market transformations to accelerate growth and improve commercial execution. Previously, he held leadership roles at IBM and Morgan Stanley, where he spent significant time overseas advising leading technology companies on strategic transactions and capital markets activities.

Charles Race

General Partner, Windproof Partners

Charles Race is a seasoned go-to-market and operations leader known for scaling global field organizations and driving revenue growth for enterprise technology companies. As a general partner at Windproof Partners, Race advises and invests in companies building foundational infrastructure for secure, cloud-based systems. He served as President of Worldwide Field Operations at Okta, Inc., where he led global sales, customer success, partners, services, and business operations during a key phase of expansion from $100M to over $1B in revenues. Race brought deep leadership experience from over a decade at Informatica, where he held senior roles including Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations. Charles holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of York.

Remington Rawlings

Founder, OneView

Remington Rawlings is a strategic GTM advisor and consultant with experience in revenue operations and go-to-market strategy. Remington is the founder of OneView, a data analytics and AI strategy platform focused on GTM effectiveness. He has worked with companies including Snowflake, Workfront, and Chili Piper in strategic roles supporting GTM initiatives. Earlier in his career, he held roles in revenue operations and marketing operations that shaped his expertise in aligning operational and revenue functions to drive business growth. Remington holds a Bachelor of Science in Philosophy from Utah Valley University.

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.