Backblaze Names Brian Beach Chief Technology Officer

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Backblaze, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLZE), the leading independent storage cloud company, today announced that Dr. Brian Beach has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective November 7, 2022. Brian Wilson, who has served as CTO since 2007, will remain an employee at Backblaze and will become Inveterate Software Engineer, as well as serve in an advisory CTO capacity until the end of the year.

“I am excited to congratulate Brian Beach on this well-deserved promotion, which is a testament to his leadership skills and his central role in architecting our storage cloud as well as the products it enables,” said Gleb Budman, Backblaze CEO and Chairperson of the Board. “Brian Beach has an extraordinary ability to lead architectural strategy and define the technologies and systems that Backblaze will use to meet the needs of our business and our customers today and into the future.”

Budman continued, “I also want to thank Brian Wilson for his leadership over the past 15 years. He co-founded and led the company through incredible transformation and growth. He is a remarkable leader whose impact has extended far beyond the scaling of our technology infrastructure. He has nurtured a culture of innovation and inclusion, and has served as a trusted partner to me and leaders across Backblaze.”

Beach has been with Backblaze for more than nine years and serves as Distinguished Engineer. A deep history with the company, Beach was the first customer in 2008. Over the course of his tenure, he has played a critical role in initiatives such as building next-generation distributed storage solutions, implementing the B2 Cloud Storage service, and reporting on disk drive performance and reliability. Most recently, Beach has expanded his role to include overall system architecture.