Blackbaud, Inc. appointed Kristian Talvitie, executive vice president and chief financial officer of PTC Inc. to its board of directors. Talvitie brings 30 years of experience with a diverse background ranging across corporate finance, FP&A, sales, marketing and communications. As CFO of PTC, Talvitie oversees the finance, accounting, tax, investor relations, internal audit, pricing and packaging, and central operations (data operations and real-estate) functions for the public company, which has more than 7,000 employees globally.

Prior to his current role, Talvitie held CFO roles at Syncsort, Inc. and Sovos Compliance, and has experience leading a variety of business functions as vice president of corporate marketing and of sales and business development at Plexus Corporation, and vice president of investor relations and corporate communications at PTC. In his various roles at PTC, he has helped to drive margin expansion, reduce operating expense and facilitate the shift from a perpetual to subscription business model?initiatives that have steadily increased the company's market cap and revenue growth. In addition to Talvitie, Blackbaud's board of directors includes Andrew M. Leitch (chairman), Deneen DeFiore, George H. Ellis, Mike Gianoni (CEO and vice chairman), Yogesh K. Gupta, Rupal S. Hollenbeck, D. Roger Nanney and Sarah E. Nash.