Blaize Holdings, Inc. (BZAI)

Dinakar Munagala has run Blaize since it began. He co-founded the business, then called Blaize, Inc., and served as its chief executive and a member of its board from the company's inception in January 2010; he became chief executive and a director of the listed company in January 2025, when the merger that took the business public closed. Before Blaize he held a leadership role in the Graphics Division of Intel Corporation. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical and computer engineering from Osmania University and a master's degree in electric and computer engineering from Purdue University. 123

Harminder Sehmi has been chief financial officer since January 2025 and held the same job at Legacy Blaize from November 2023. He joined that company in July 2019 as vice president of finance, looking after finance, legal and human resources until October 2023. Earlier he was finance director of Truphone, a mobile network based in London, from October 2011 to May 2016, and held operational, group and global roles at Vodafone Group PLC. He is a chartered accountant, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. 45

The board has seven directors and Lane M. Bess chairs it. He has been chairman since January 2025 and sat on Legacy Blaize's board from January 2022. Since September 2022 he has been chief executive of Deep Instinct, a cybersecurity company, and since March 2015 the principal and founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory; earlier he was chief operating officer of Zscaler Inc. and president and chief executive of Palo Alto Networks. The board counts every director except Bess and Munagala as independent under Nasdaq's rules, keeps the chair and the chief executive as two people, and has no nominating and corporate governance committee: the independent directors recommend who joins them. 67891011

On the insider record this site holds, 18 people have filed insider reports for this company and 11 of them have filed in the last fifteen months. The oldest entries, from 2021, are people who filed when the listed company was still called BurTech Acquisition Corporation. Three names arrived after the annual report: Stephen Paul Patak as chief revenue officer and Kimberly Peterson Evans as general counsel, both first filing in 2026, and Kurt J Lauk as a director. At the end of 2025 the company employed 254 people, 228 of them full time; none are represented by a labor union or covered by collective bargaining agreements. 121314