On August 9, 2023, the Board of Directors of Blend Labs, Inc. approved the appointment of Oxana Tkach as the Company?s Controller and principal accounting officer. Amir Jafari, the Company?s Head of Finance and Administration, who has been serving as principal financial officer and principal accounting officer, will continue serving as the Company?s principal financial officer. Ms. Tkach, 40, has served as the Financial Reporting and Technical Accounting Lead at Blend since May 2021.

Ms. Tkach previously served as the Senior Director of SEC Reporting and Technical Accounting for EVO Payments, Inc, from 2019 to 2021. From 2016 until 2019, Ms. Tkach served as Principal and Senior Principal of Corporate Accounting at CA Technologies, Inc. Ms. Tkach started her career in 2009 at Deloitte LLP, and served companies spanning manufacturing, aerospace, energy, hospitality, real estate, and media and entertainment industries until 2016. Ms. Tkach received a B.S. from Montclair State University.