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BlackLine Continues Asia-Pacific Expansion
New office, leadership and data center to enhance customer experience and fuel company growth LOS ANGELES and SYDNEY and SINGAPORE, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/
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[{"type":"text","content":"New office, leadership and data center to enhance customer experience and fuel company growth\nLOS ANGELES and SYDNEY and SINGAPORE, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Accounting automation software leader BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL) today announced it is expanding its presence in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region by opening a new office, appointing two new leaders, and launching a data center in Sydney.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nNew Regional Headquarters Opens in SydneyBlackLine has moved its APAC regional headquarters into new office space on Castlereagh Street in Sydney's central business district. The collaborative workspace enables the company to support market expansion and regional employee growth while better serving local customers and partners.\nTwo Experienced Leaders Join BlackLine APACRosie Cairnes has been appointed as regional vice president of the account management organization. Ms. Cairnes has three decades of IT industry sales, business development and management experience working for organizations including SmartForce, SAI Global and SkillSoft. Based in Sydney, she will focus on driving customer adoption and growth.\nNikhil Parambath joins BlackLine as regional vice president for enterprise accounts. Mr. Parambath has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, having previously worked for industry leaders Salesforce, SunGard and Oracle. From BlackLine's Singapore office, he will drive market expansion across APAC.\nNew Data Center to Improve Speed, Security and Data SovereigntyBlackLine will soon open a data center within a Google Cloud facility in Sydney. The data center is expected to enhance customer service delivery across the region while bolstering the company's capacity to scale and support customer growth. It also will support customers' data sovereignty requirements while increasing speed and offering best-of-breed information security.\nBlackLine expects the new data center to simplify and accelerate the migration of its APAC customers to Google Cloud. The addition complements other data centers across the US and Europe, expanding the company's global coverage to better serve the company's growing customer base.\n\"We remain focused on delivering the best customer experience and fast-tracking time to value,\" said Lee Thompson, BlackLine's senior vice president for APAC. \"With a local data center, ne...