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Rob Thatcher
Founder & CEO
20 years in the beauty industry. Trained admissions and service reps at hundreds of schools across nearly every U.S. state. Invited speaker on AI at multiple industry conferences.
Industry expertise, enterprise engineering, and VC-grade finance.
BLEND is built by people who have lived inside salons, beauty schools, and the high-velocity software teams that scale them. Here is who is behind it.
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Steve Allred
Technical Co-founder & CTO
12 years in enterprise software engineering, most recently at Adobe — where he built AI tooling running Claude in production and led work on data sync and authentication.
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Jon Saunders, CPA
CFO
Senior Controller at Aduro Advisors, serving as fractional CFO/Controller for venture capital and private equity funds. 10+ years in fund accounting.
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Caden Bloxem
Software Engineer
Years of AI engineering experience. [Background details to be added.]