BlackSky Appoints James Tolonen to ist Board of Directors

​Herndon, Va.,  July 26, 2021– BlackSky Holdings, Inc. a technology platform providing real-time geospatial intelligence and global monitoring, today announced that James (Jim) Tolonen will join its Board of Directors.Tolonen is a seasoned finance and business strategy advisor with significant experience advising high growth, public companies.

Tolonen has advised a number of public companies, startups and nonprofits on a variety of growth, risk, life cycle and economic topics. Mr. Tolonen currently serves on the Board and as Chair of the Audit Committee of New Relic, a powerful cloud-based observability platform built to help companies create more perfect software. Mr. Tolonen was also chief operating officer and chief financial officer at IGN Entertainment, a video game and entertainment website. In addition, he previously served as CFO at BusinessObjects, an SAP company specializing in business intelligence.

Tolonen will join the board upon the completion of BlackSky’s planned business combination with Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SFTW). BlackSky previously announced Dr. Magid M. Abraham and Tim Harvey will also join its board after the business combination is complete. BlackSky currently anticipates closing the transaction during the third quarter of 2021.