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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001855747-25-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLND"
cik: "0001855747"
company_name: "Blend Labs, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T18:20:31.887385+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blend Labs appoints Jason Ream as Head of Finance; Amir Jafari departs

## Summary
- Jason Ream appointed Head of Finance and Administration effective Aug 7, 2025; will become principal financial officer after Q2 10-Q filing.
- Ream previously CFO at SailPoint and SolarWinds; most recently Senior Managing Director at Haveli Investments.
- Compensation: $400k salary, $250k target bonus, and RSU award of 2.2M shares vesting over 4 years.
- Outgoing Head Amir Jafari will stay for a transition period; departure is mutually agreed.
- Ream was not appointed due to any arrangement between Haveli and Blend.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001855747-25-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLND
- cik: 0001855747
- company_name: Blend Labs, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-08-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1855747/000185574725000068/0001855747-25-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1855747/000185574725000068/blnd-20250807.htm

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