– USA, CA – BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) today announced the election of lead outside director Owen Ryan as board chair, effective January 1st, 2023 while Bruny Rios, CAO of Dell Technologies, and Amit Yoran, CEO and chairman of cybersecurity company Tenable, have joined the Board of Directors.
About Owen Ryan
Serving as BlackLine’s lead outside director since May 2022, Owen Ryan assumed the chair role as part of a planned succession from BlackLine Founder and former CEO Therese Tucker, who served as the board’s executive chair from January 2021 to December 2022. Ms. Tucker remains a member of the board.
“The BlackLine board of directors is so appreciative of Therese’s leadership as executive chair over the past two years, and we are thrilled that her work as a leader in BlackLine and as a board member will continue,” said Owen Ryan. “As chair, I look forward to furthering the board’s work and working with our CEO Marc Huffman as we continue to build and grow this great company.”
“As a CAO, I am well-versed in modernizing the accounting function and its challenges,” said Bruny Rios. “I’ve seen the power of BlackLine and am eager to contribute to the continued growth of BlackLine by sharing my customer perspective.”
“BlackLine has always prioritized innovation in how companies think about their accounting processes and systems,” said Amit Yoran. “I look forward to sharing my experiences in rapidly scaling a growth company as well as contributing to the company’s ongoing commitment to world-class security, safeguards, and compliance controls.”
Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. BlackLine’s cloud-based financial operations management platform and market-leading customer service help companies move to modern accounting by unifying their data and processes, automating repetitive work, and driving accountability through visibility. BlackLine provides solutions to manage and automate financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting processes, helping large enterprises and midsize companies across all industries do accounting work better, faster, and with more control.
More than 4,000 customers trust BlackLine to help them close faster with complete and accurate results. The company is the pioneer of the cloud financial close market and is recognized as the leader by customers at leading end-user review sites including G2 and TrustRadius. BlackLine is a global company with operations in major business centers worldwide including Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay area, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.
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