David Ngo Chief Product Officer, Backblaze  

Backblaze, Inc. announced that David Ngo has joined the company as chief product officer (CPO).

A SaaS data protection industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, he will spearhead the company’s global product management function, shaping the strategy, crafting the technology roadmap and overseeing execution. 

Ngo previously served as the global chief technology officer (CTO) for Metallic, a division of Commvault, which provides data protection and cyber resilience as a service. He will play a pivotal role in guiding overall product direction for existing customers as well as emerging needs as the company continues to succeed in moving up-market. 

“I am pleased to welcome David as our new Chief Product Officer. David brings impressive engineering, design and product leadership to Backblaze,” said Gleb Budman, CEO and chairperson of the board. “David joins us at an exciting time as we help more customers break free from traditional cloud walled gardens, move to an open cloud ecosystem, and empower them to do more with their data.”

Ngo joins a team with atrack record of building and scaling products and solutions that excite customers, drive growth, and deliver impact. With over 500,000 customers and 3 billion gigabytes of storage under management, the company has built storage products at industry leading pricing over the past 15 years. Ngo further expands the company’s leadership by bringing his vast cloud, infrastructure and data management knowledge developed during his time leading global teams at Commvault.

“I am thrilled to lead the amazing product organization at Backblaze and to help accelerate growth for our company,” said Ngo. “I am committed to continuing the company’s impressive track record of building powerful products that support customers’ data needs and leading the industry towards an open cloud ecosystem.” 

Backblaze provides developers, businesses, and consumers with cloud services to store and use their data in an easy and affordable manner, serving as a foundation for customers to back up and archive data, host content, manage media, build their applications, and more.