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Mr. Gleb Budman is one of our co-founders and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since 2007. Mr. Budman has also served as a member of the Board since 2009 and Chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Mr. Budman served in various senior roles at SonicWall, Inc., MailFrontier, Inc. (acquired by SonicWall, Inc.) and Kendara, Inc. (acquired by Excite@Home, Inc.). Mr. Budman also previously founded two other startup companies. Mr. Budman earned a M.B.A. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Marc Suidan has served as our Chief Financial Officer since August 2024. Mr. Suidan 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. Prior to joining Backblaze, Mr. Suidan was the Chief Financial Officer of The Beachbody Company, Inc., a publicly traded digital fitness and nutrition subscription company, from May 2022 to August 2024. Prior to that, from 2011 to April 2022, Mr. Suidan was a Senior Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, an accounting and professional services firm, where his clients included various technology companies and private equity funds. Mr. Suidan is also on the Board of the Silicon Valley International School. Mr. Suidan earned a 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.

Ms. Jocelyn E. Carter-Miller has served as a director of Backblaze, Inc. since 2021 and currently serves as Lead Independent Director and Chair of the Compensation Committee. She is President of TechEdVentures and SoulTranSync and leads a strategic advisory firm focused on growth strategy and IPO readiness. She also serves in leadership roles on the boards of Principal Financial Group, Inc. and Arlo Technologies, Inc. Ms. Carter-Miller brings significant public company board experience across compensation, audit, and governance, as well as deep expertise in strategy and customer acquisition. Her prior executive roles include Chief Marketing Officer of Office Depot, Inc. and Motorola, Inc. as General Manager for Latin America and EMEA Networks Division. She holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago, and is a Certified Public Accountant (unlicensed). We believe that Ms. Carter-Miller's governance leadership and marketing expertise are critical as Backblaze focuses on improving execution, strengthening financial performance, and restoring investor confidence. As Lead Independent Director and Compensation Committee Chair, she has been actively engaged in enhancing Board oversight, enhancing performance-based compensation, aligning executive compensation more directly with measurable performance outcomes, supporting improved execution discipline, and reinforcing management accountability.

Ms. Evelyn D'An has served as a member of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee 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 Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded car sharing platform company, where she has served since April 2023, Matinas BioPharma Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, where she has served since February 2025, and GHD Group Pty Ltd., a privately held technical professional services firm, where she has served since March 2020. Ms. D'An is the Chair of the audit committee for each of these three companies. Ms. D'An has served on numerous other corporate boards since 2006, including as a director of Enochian Biosciences Inc., a publicly traded pre-clinical stage biosciences technology company from March 2018 to April 2021 (subsequent name change to Renovaro Biosciences Inc.), and Summer Infant, Inc., a former publicly traded manufacturer of infant and juvenile products, from November 2016 to June 2022. She graduated with a B.S. in Accounting from the State University of Albany.

Mr. Earl E. Fry has served as a member of the Board since August 2021. Mr. Fry currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Central Pacific Financial Corp., a publicly traded commercial bank, since April 2005, and serves as Chair of the risk committee and is a member of the audit committee. 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 served on the board of directors of Hawaiian Airlines, a publicly traded airline company, including as the Chair of the audit and finance committee from May 2016 to September 2024, and Xactly Corporation, formerly a publicly traded 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.

Ms. Barbara Nelson has served as a member of the Board 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 artificial intelligence (AI) applied to brain connectivity, since October 2022, and became Chair of the Board in February 2026. Ms. Nelson served as an independent director for GSI Technology, a publicly traded AI semiconductor and software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, from August 2021 to August 2024. 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.

Mr. Daniel Spraggins has served as our Senior Vice President, Engineering since January 2026. Mr. Spraggins brings more than two decades of experience leading large-scale software, platform, and AI engineering for global technology companies. Prior to Backblaze, Mr. Spraggins 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, Mr. Spraggins has focused on modernizing architectures and delivering reliable, scalable software systems. At Backblaze, Mr. Spraggins is responsible for advancing our storage cloud, driving innovation, and ensuring our platform continues to deliver performance, durability, and value. Mr. Spraggins earned a B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.