---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001666134-25-000021"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BL"
cik: "0001666134"
company_name: "BLACKLINE, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T06:34:48.741738+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BlackLine appoints former Deloitte Global CEO Sam Balaji to Board of Directors

## Summary
- Sam Balaji appointed to BlackLine Board effective June 13, 2025; term expires at 2027 annual meeting.
- Balaji spent 28 years at Deloitte, most recently as Global CEO of Deloitte Consulting (2019-2024).
- Balaji will serve on the Technology and Cybersecurity Committee of the Board.
- He brings expertise in enterprise software, AI, cybersecurity, and M&A; led over 100 transactions at Deloitte.
- Compensation per BlackLine's Outside Director Compensation Policy; standard indemnification agreement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001666134-25-000021
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BL
- cik: 0001666134
- company_name: BLACKLINE, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666134/000166613425000021/0001666134-25-000021-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666134/000166613425000021/bl-20250613.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001666134-25-000021.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Saranga Balaji was appointed as Member of the Board at BLACKLINE, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Member of the Board
  source text: On June 13, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of BlackLine, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Saranga “Sam” Balaji to serve as a member of the Board, with a term beginning on June 13, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1666134/000166613425000021/0001666134-25-000021-index.htm

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