Blake is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Macrostax, a startup that provides a platform to help individuals eat what they love while achieving their goals. Prior to his current role, Blake served in leadership roles at several early-stage startups and was the VP of Product & Engineering for Techstars, a mentorship-driven global startup ecosystem that helps founders bring new technologies to market. Blake was also a Managing Director at Techstars focused on cloud technologies. Before joining Techstars, Blake was the Director of Next Generation Markets for Rackspace. He led the team developing ZeroVM, an open-source virtualization technology after Rackspace acquired LiteStack, the company that created ZeroVM, where he was the Chief Operating Officer.