LOS ANGELES - April 27, 2017 – Therese Tucker, CEO and founder of BlackLine, Inc. (Nasdaq: BL), was honored with the ‘CEO of the Year’ award at the 16th Annual Women in Business Awards presented yesterday by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal (SFVBJ). The Women in Business Awards recognize the outstanding achievements by women business leaders, as selected by the reporters and editors of the SFVBJ.
Ms. Tucker was recognized for her accomplishments building BlackLine from the ground up into a leading provider of financial automation software solutions that enable Continuous Accounting, with over 1,700 organizations now using BlackLine’s cloud platform in more than 130 countries around the globe. BlackLine has been listed on the prestigious Inc. 5000 for the past nine years, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 the past seven, and the Software 500 for six in a row, and was recently named by Fortune magazine as one of the country’s ‘Best Workplaces in Technology.’ Tucker sits on the Board of the California Community Foundation (CCF) and is on the Advisory Board for Enterprising Women magazine.
On Oct. 28, 2016, BlackLine became the first company in Los Angeles funded by venture capital to go public under the direction of a female CEO.