Nilay Patel — Vice President, Sales and Interim, Head of Marketing at Backblaze | Comparably
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Nilay Patel — Vice President, Sales and Interim, Head of Marketing at Backblaze

Nilay Patel — Vice President, Sales and Interim, Head of Marketing at Backblaze

Executive Bio

Nilay has served as our vice president, Sales since 2009. Nilay was part of the founding team at Backblaze and launched Backblaze Business Backup and the partner programs. In early 2011, Nilay left to co-found Selligy, which was acquired by Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) in mid-2015. Soon thereafter, Nilay returned to bring his unique background in development and sales back to Backblaze. In addition to Selligy, Nilay was the first employee in Europe for both Electric Cloud and MailFrontier. He opened up the territories by selling products to Nokia, Ericsson, Siemens Medical, Bertelsmann, and other large enterprises. Nilay earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Executive Team Culture Ratings from Backblaze Employees

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5%
Backblaze's Executive Team scores in the Top 5%
of similar sized companies on Comparably
Who ranks the Executive Team the highest?
Department - Marketing 100/100
Ethnicity - Hispanic or Latino 100/100
Gender - Female 99/100
Who ranks the Executive Team the lowest?
Department - Sales 96/100
Department - Customer Support 97/100
Experience - 3 to 6 Years 97/100

Backblaze's Executive Team at a Glance

Based on 115 ratings, Backblaze's employees are very satisfied with their Executive Team and give them an ā€œA+ā€ or 95/100. On average, Women provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Men. Also, the Marketing department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Sales department.

Backblaze's Executive Team ranks in the Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco and Top 5% of other companies on Comparably that also have 201-500 Employees.

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