SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blend Labs, Inc. announced today. (NYSE: BLND), a leader in cloud banking software, tech industry veteran Dean Klinger as its new Chief Revenue Officer. Klinger most recently served as Senior Vice President of Sales, Major Accounts at Snowflake, Inc. (NYSE: SNOW), a market leader in cloud-based data warehousing and analytics (the data cloud).
Reporting to Blend’s Head, Nima Ghamsari, Klinger will oversee Blend’s end-to-end customer journey. Klinger brings 25+ years of sales and leadership experience in the enterprise software space to Blend. He spent 12 of those years in various senior leadership roles in the SaaS cloud space selling technical solutions to enterprise customers.
Prior to Snowflake, Klinger held several senior leadership positions at ServiceNow, Inc. (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company, most recently as Vice President of Major Sales, West.
“We are delighted to welcome Dean to Blend. He brings extensive experience with leading software companies like Snowflake and ServiceNow, helping them quickly scale the companies they have today,” said Ghamsari. “Blend continues to grow and gain market share in mortgage while gaining traction in our consumer banking and marketplace businesses, and I know Dean will help advance our vision as a leading cloud banking software provider.”
Klinger previously held business sales leadership roles at leading technology companies including Data Domain, EMC, and Cisco Systems.
“I couldn’t be more excited to join Blend,” said Klinger. “What Nima and the team have created is, in short, the future of banking. Having an automated platform that takes the friction and manual processes out of our banking needs is not only essential, but expected in our fast that fast, digital world.”
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