Backblaze adds strategic AI and cybersecurity leader to drive innovation and operational excellence to continue scaling its platform for the AI era

Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the high-performance cloud storage platform for the AI era, today announced the appointment of Rhett Dillingham as Senior Vice President of Product, strengthening the company's executive leadership team as its cloud storage platform and AI use cases continue to scale.

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Rhett Dillingham, Senior Vice President of Product at Backblaze

Dillingham brings more than two decades of product management and design leadership experience building high growth, globally developed and delivered cloud platforms. In his role, he oversees Backblaze’s product organization driving customer-centric product innovation to support the growing demands of AI and data-intensive workloads.

"Rhett's experience leading product teams across AI, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity make him an excellent leader for our product organization," said Gleb Budman, co-founder and CEO of Backblaze. "As customers rely on Backblaze to power AI-driven and mission-critical workloads, his background building global platforms will help us innovate faster and strengthen our storage cloud for the next generation of applications."

Prior to joining Backblaze, Dillingham 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. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Product at Sumo Logic and Rackspace after holding product leadership roles at AWS, Microsoft, and AMD.

“Backblaze’s differentiated combination of cloud storage performance with cost predictability empowers application builders to focus on innovation instead of cost to ship bolder application capabilities faster,” said Dillingham. “This is especially applicable in the burgeoning AI-powered application development space, and I am thrilled to join the team in advancing Backblaze’s platform capabilities addressing these growing customer object storage needs.”

Dillingham comes to Backblaze having built and led product teams responsible for some of the industry’s highest scale global cloud and cybersecurity platforms. In this new role, he will guide the customer-centric build-out of the company’s storage cloud as it supports the next generation of AI-powered and data-driven applications.

About Backblaze

Backblaze (NASDAQ: BLZE) gives businesses the freedom to innovate without limits by removing the barriers of lock-in, complexity, and cost. Our high-performance cloud object storage accelerates AI workflows, powers data-heavy applications, streamlines media management, and protects critical data. As an award-winning independent cloud, we provide unparalleled levels of interoperability that enable over 500,000 of our customers to reach and serve hundreds of millions of end users in 175 countries around the world. For more information, please go to www.backblaze.com.

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In his role, Rhett oversees Backblaze’s product organization driving customer-centric product innovation to support the growing demands of AI and data-intensive workloads.