Gleb Budman vs Mohamad Ali

Gleb Budman

CEO of Backblaze

BIO: Gleb Budman is a co-founder and has served as our chief executive officer since 2007, guiding the business from its inception in a Palo Alto apartment to a company serving customers in more than 175 countries with over an exabyte of data under management. Gleb has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2009 and as chairperson since January 2021. Prior to Backblaze, Gleb was the senior director of product management at SonicWall and the vice president of products at MailFrontier, which was acquired by SonicWall. Before that, he served in a senior position at Kendara, which was acquired by Excite@Home, and previously founded and successfully exited two other startup companies. Gleb earned a M.B.A. and B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University fo California, Berkeley.

Mohamad Ali

CEO of Carbonite

BIO: Mr. Mohamad S. Ali has been Chief Executive Officer and President at Carbonite, Inc. since December 3, 2014. Mr. Ali served as Senior Vice President and President of Avaya Global Services of Avaya India Private Limited. He served as the Chief Strategy Officer of Hewlett-Packard from August 2012 to December 2014. Prior to Hewlett-Packard in 2012, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the workforce optimization division at Aspect Software Group Holdings Ltd. from July 2012 to August 2, 2012. He served as Senior Vice President of Avaya Inc., from April 15, 2011 to April 13, 2012. Mr. Ali served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development of Avaya Inc. since December 2009. He served as the President of Avaya Global Services at Avaya Inc. Prior to Avaya, Mr. Ali served as Vice President of Business Development & Strategy for IBM's Information Management division where he oversaw division strategy, partner relationships and the selection, acquisition and integration of target companies. Mr. Ali served as Vice President and General Manager for IBM's Information Applications software business unit, IBM's EDA software business, IBM's E&TS hardware systems business and IBM's GSM semiconductor business. He served as a Director of the Engineering & Technology Services hardware systems business, Program Director of the GSM semiconductor business unit and Director of Corporate Development and Strategic Investments. Mr. Ali also held positions in sales, marketing, engineering and finance. Before joining IBM, he was an Executive at software startup Neural Applications Corporation and an engineer at Adobe Systems. He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Mass Technology Leadership Council, Inc. He has been a Director of iRobot Corporation since August 2015. He has been Director at Carbonite, Inc. since January 8, 2015. He has been a Director of City National Bank since June 25, 2013 and City National Corporation since September 1, 2013. He served as a Director of Ember Corporation since October 13, 2009. He serves on the Leadership Council of Oxfam America and on the board of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council. He was named to Boston Business Journal's 2008 40 Under 40 list and recognized by Massachusetts High Tech magazine as a 2011 All-Star. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering, BA in History and an Master's Degrees in Electrical Engineering both from Stanford University.