Blake is currently a Managing Director for Techstars, a mentorship-driven startup network that runs a number of accelerators around the globe. Blake manages the Techstars Cloud program based in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to his current role, Blake was the Director of Next Generation Markets for Rackspace. He led the team focused on developing ZeroVM, an open source virtualization technology, after Rackspace acquired LiteStack, the company that created ZeroVM, where he was the Chief Operating Officer.