Zuora, Inc. announced the appointment of Pete Hirschas its Chief Product and Technology Officer. Hirsch will join Zuora on July 10, 2023 and report to founder and CEO Tien Tzuo to lead the company's global product innovation and engineering functions. Hirsch comes to Zuora with more than 30 years of software engineering experience leading enterprise product and engineering organizations.

Most recently, he was Chief Technology Officer at BlackLine, a financial controls and automation software company, where he led the company's product and technology groups, set its technology direction and scaled its global cloud platform. Prior to BlackLine, Hirsch was Executive Vice President of Technology and Operations at fintech provider Ellie Mae, where he oversaw all technology functions, including product development, public cloud and SaaS operations. Hirsch also brings experience from SAP, where he was Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of Ariba, and then Senior Vice President, Ariba Cloud Engineering & Technology, focused on its mainline cloud engineering team following its acquisition.

Before that, he spent several years at IBM, where he led a SaaS business unit and supported the acquisition of several companies.