Backblaze, Inc. announced that David Ngo has joined the company as Chief Product Officer (CPO). A Software as a Service (SaaS) data protection industry veteran with more than 25 years of global leadership experience, Ngo 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. Ngo joins a team with an impressive track record of building and scaling products and solutions that excite customers, drive growth, and deliver impact. With over 500,000 customers and three billion gigabytes of data storage under management, Backblaze has built data 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.