Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Nilay runs Sales for B2. Nilay was part of the founding team at Backblaze and started Business Backup and the partner programs. In early 2011, Nilay left to be co-founder of Selligy. Selligy's products guided inside and field salespeople on how best to interact with their customers. Selligy won multiple awards for its products, including being
named Gartner Cool Vendor for CRM in 2014. As CEO, Nilay raised $3M from DFJ Ventures, Salesforce and other investors. Selligy was acquired by Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) in mid-2015. Soon thereafter, Nilay returned 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 has his computer science degree from UC Berkeley.
