Backblaze today announced the appointment of Anuj Kumar as chief revenue officer.
Kumar brings more than two decades of experience scaling cloud revenue organizations at enterprise infrastructure companies, most notably driving NetApp’s worldwide cloud business during a period of significant growth.
Kumar joins as Backblaze pursues two parallel AI growth vectors: one on the supply side and one on the demand side. On the supply side, the company serves neocloud GPU providers as the storage backbone for their platforms. On the demand side, it supports AI-native developers and enterprise users building applications that generate and process large-scale datasets.
Prior to Backblaze, Kumar served as SVP and general manager for North America at SUSE, and previously as chief revenue officer at HUMAN Security. Earlier in his career, he held senior sales and go-to-market leadership roles at NetApp, VMware, Rackspace, Verisign and Red Hat, living and working across three continents and thirteen cities globally. Kumar holds a degree in electrical engineering from BIT Mesra.
