Board of Directors

Owen has served as a member of the BlackLine Board since August 2018, and as Chair since January 2023. From July 2018 through April 2022, Owen worked for Geller & Company and Geller Advisors in several roles, including Chief Executive Officer, Managing Principal and Chief Strategy Officer. In 2016 and 2017, Owen served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of AEGIS Insurance, a mutual insurance company. Prior to joining AEGIS, Owen worked at Deloitte from 1985 until 2016 where he was the CEO and Managing Partner of Deloitte Advisory from 2008. Owen also serves on the board of Lincoln Financial Group. He holds a B.S. from New Jersey City University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University, and is a certified public accountant.

Therese founded BlackLine in 2001. She designed the first offerings of BlackLine’s products, engineered its transition to the cloud in 2007, and has led the organization in automating the financial close process via the company’s flagship Finance Controls and Automation Platform. Under her direction, BlackLine experienced strong growth since its inception. Previously, Therese served as Chief Technology Officer for SunGard Treasury Systems. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Illinois.

Tom has served as a member of BlackLine’s Board of Directors since 2010. He founded Rustic Canyon Partners, a venture capital firm, in 1999 and continues to be a Partner, serving on boards of directors of several of the firm’s portfolio companies. Previously, Tom was an executive of The Times Mirror Company, a newspaper publishing company that was acquired by Tribune Co., most recently serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He is currently a director of several non-profit and civil rights organizations. He holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Princeton University.

Camille has served as a member of BlackLine's Board of Directors since March 2024, drawing on her more than 36 years leading finance and global business process services at oil, gas, and energy leader bp. She currently serves as SVP of Global Business Services, overseeing worldwide finance, procurement, customer, and HR business services teams. She also has held several senior finance roles at bp including CFO of Gas Trading Europe. Recognized for her distinguished career at bp, as well as for driving diversity and inclusion within and outside of organizations, Camille has been named multiple times to the UK’s ‘Powerlist’ of the 100 most influential black leaders. She holds an MBA from the Henley Business School.

David Henshall most recently served as President & CEO of Citrix Systems, a leading multinational provider of cloud computing and virtualization technology, where he held executive roles for the past nearly twenty years. Prior to his role as President, CEO, and Director of Citrix, Henshall served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the company’s worldwide finance, operations, and administration organizations. Before joining Citrix, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Rational Software Corporation, a software company acquired by IBM Corporation. An experienced public company board director, Henshall also actively serves as a member of the boards of directors of HashiCorp, Inc., Aspen Technology, Inc. and Feedzai, Inc., and was a formerly the Chairman of the board of directors of Everbridge, Inc., and a director of New Relic, Inc. and LogMeIn, Inc.

Bruny has served as a member of BlackLine’s Board of Directors since January 2023, drawing on her more than twenty years of experience in Finance and Accounting at Dell Technologies.  Currently Dell’s Chief Accounting Officer, where she oversees a global organization of more than a thousand people, Bruny previously served as the company’s Senior Vice President of Global Revenue and Vice President of Corporate Accounting. No stranger to widescale transformative initiatives, Bruny helped oversee the merger of Dell Technologies and EMC Corporation in 2016, addressing countless overlapping projects and processes, while working to embrace the best of both company cultures. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Sophia has served as a member of BlackLine’s Board of Directors since March 2020. A prominent AI business leader, Sophia draws on her over 20 years bringing emerging technologies and products to market at top high tech companies. Sophia previously served as the Chief Product Officer at Aptiv managing over $5 billion in annual revenue.

Prior to that, she held executive leadership roles at Microsoft including Chief AI Technology Officer in Business Applications and General Manager for AI products and search. Prior to Microsoft, Sophia served as Doppler Lab’s Chief Product Officer. Previously, she headed Google/Nest’s Silicon and Architecture Roadmap team and led the Platform Architecture “Think Tank” Program at Apple. Sophia is an AI advisor for the U.S. National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering. Sophia also serves on Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering board. She previously served as a chair of World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bill has served as a member of BlackLine’s Board of Directors since October 2023. A cloud, technology, and marketing industry veteran, Bill came to BlackLine with more than 20 years of experience building dynamic SaaS companies into market category leaders. Bill is the former President and CEO of GoTo, one of the world’s top SaaS companies, with more than two million customers and over $1 billion in annual revenue prior to its transition in 2020 from a publicly traded company to being privately held. He was previously Chief Operating Officer at Vocus, a cloud-marketing software company, where he led the sales, marketing, and services organizations. Prior to that, he held several executive leadership roles, including Chief Marketing Officer at the leading enterprise mobile device management company Fiberlink (acquired by IBM). He began his career at AT&T. Bill also serves on the boards of Akamai Technologies, Avery Dennison, Semrush Holdings, and ChurnZero. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.

Barbara has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2021. Barbara is currently VP Inclusion and Diversity at Apple. Previously, she was Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Intel. Barbara began her career as an electrical engineer holding leadership and project engineering roles with BellSouth and NCR. She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina and an M.B.A. from the University’s Darla Moore School of Business.

Mika has served as a member of our Board of Directors since April 2019. Mika is currently the Chief Customer and Marketing Officer at FreshWorks, a cloud-based customer service software company. Prior to FreshWorks, she served as Chief Marketing and Customer Engagement Officer at F5 Networks, a multi-cloud application security and delivery company. Previously she served as Global President at marketing automation software leader Marketo and then SVP and General Manager of Marketo at Adobe after it was acquired. Prior to Marketo, she was the first to hold the role of Chief Digital Marketing Officer at SAP, where she was responsible for driving growth through digital transformation. Before that she was Chief Marketing Officer of SMB at SAP. Before SAP, Mika was Head of Marketing and Merchandising at Amazon Books. She also spent more than six years at Microsoft in a variety of channel and product management roles. Prior to that, she served as Research Vice President at Gartner. Mika holds a Bachelor of Commerce, Economics and Marketing from Queen’s University.

Amit has served as a member of BlackLine’s Board of Directors since January 2023. A widely recognized leader in the security industry, Amit is currently CEO and Chairman of cybersecurity company Tenable. He previously served as RSA Security’s President, spearheading its transformation into one of the most successful global security companies. Amit joined RSA through its acquisition of NetWitness, the network forensics company he founded and led as CEO. Prior to NetWitness, Amit served as Founding Director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) program in the US Department of Homeland Security. Amit also serves on the boards of Tenable and the Center for Internet Security. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.S. in Computer Science from The George Washington University.