Blaize Holdings, Inc. appointed Stephen Patak as Chief Revenue Officer to lead Blaize?s global revenue and go-to-market execution as the company expands real-world AI deployments across public and private sector markets. Patak brings more than 25 years of experience building and leading high-performing sales and partner organizations for infrastructure and enterprise technology companies. He has led go-to-market execution across developed and emerging markets, driving commercialization of complex platforms and durable revenue growth.
Most recently, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Nile, where he successfully scaled secure, AI-powered networking delivered as a service. Previously, he held senior revenue leadership roles at Ubicquia and Extreme Networks, and spent 15 years at Cisco in sales leadership roles across the U.S. and Asia Pacific, including as Managing Director of Cisco?s Service Provider business in Asia Pacific, Japan, and China.
