Reltio Leadership Team
Reltio's leadership team has a passion for helping Global 2000 companies power the experiences of the future with the data that matters most to their business.
We have deep expertise in SaaS, enterprise applications, master data management and big data stemming from leadership positions at Informatica, Siperian, Veeva Systems, Kinaxis, SuccessFactors, DocuSign, Citrix, Intuit, PwC, Oracle, SAP, and IBM.
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Chris Hylen is the CEO and board member of Reltio. He leads the strategy, operations, overall performance and growth of Reltio. Previously, Chris served as CEO of Imperva, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, where he led a successful turnaround and $2.3B sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Before that, he served as President and CEO of Citrix mobility business unit, called GetGo, where he led the spin off and the merger with LogMeIn in 2017 for $1.8B. Chris also held leadership positions at Intuit, ADP, and American Express. Chris earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. degree in Engineering from Widener University.
Manish Sood is Reltio’s Founder & Chairman and CTO, responsible for overseeing the Office of the CTO, M&A strategy, business development, long-term product strategy and innovation at Reltio. Prior to founding Reltio in 2011, Manish led Product strategy and management for the Master Data Management (MDM) platform at Informatica and Siperian. He is the co-author of the patent that revolutionized MDM through a global business identifier. During his career, Manish has architected some of the largest and most widely used data management solutions used by Fortune 100 companies today.
Chris Battles (Battles) is Reltio’s Chief Product & Customer Officer. In this role, he partners closely with our CTO and leadership team to translate our long-term product vision into short- and mid-term roadmaps that deliver value to our customers. He also leads our Professional Services, Customer Success, Customer Support, and Training teams to ensure customers realize quick and high-impact value from their investments in Reltio. Before Reltio, Battles held a variety of GM, Product Leadership and Strategy roles at Zuora, LogMeIn, Citrix and Intuit. Battles also spent four years as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in both San Francisco and Paris. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Gordon C. (Gordy) Brooks is Reltio's Chief Financial Officer, responsible for overseeing global accounting, finance, tax, IT, Information Security and operations. Prior to Reltio, Gordy was with FinancialForce where he served as CFO . Gordy has more than two decades of senior financial leadership experience at notable companies, serving as CFO of Citrix GetGo, Aerohive Networks and Blue Coat Systems, and holding other senior finance positions at VMware, BEA Systems, and Microsoft/WebTV Networks. Gordy began his career in audit in the Palo Alto office of Ernst & Young. Gordy received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Notre Dame de Namur University and received his Master in Accounting degree from the University of Southern California Leventhal School of Accounting.
Steve Debenham is Reltio's Chief Legal Officer, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s legal, governance and compliance functions globally. Prior to joining Reltio, Steve was Vice President and General Counsel for Telenav, an in-car commerce, navigation and infotainment company. He also served as Vice President and General Counsel at Aerohive Networks, where he helped lead the company from its initial public offering (IPO) to later sale to Extreme Networks. Steve has also held executive leadership roles at various other technology companies, including Silicor Materials, Asyst Technologies and Harris myCFO Inc. Steve was previously a partner with a Bay Area law firm, practicing IP litigation. Steve holds an A.B. degree in History from Stanford University and a J.D. degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
David Kirven has joined the company in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. David grew his career at Intuit, holding multiple leadership roles across many of Intuit’s fastest growing businesses, including TurboTax, where he led brand strategy and was instrumental in doubling that business to $1.3B in revenue. After Intuit, David joined Citrix as the VP of Global Marketing for their SaaS division, where he helped lead the spin-off of the GetGo division and successful merger with LogMeIn. Most recently, David was Senior Vice President & GM at GoDaddy, where he successfully built out their SMB messaging strategy and launched multiple mobile offerings to the market. David earned his MBA and bachelor’s degrees at the University of San Diego.
Rachel Mann is responsible for overseeing all facets of corporate communications including public relations, analyst relations, executive and employee communications and corporate reputation.
She brings 20+ years of experience in leading strategic communications for private and Fortune 500 companies across a range of industries, in both corporate and agency environments. Prior to Reltio, Rachel led communications for Emburse, a business spend management company, where she was successful in elevating the company’s presence in the market and strengthening its position. She also held communications leadership roles at Imperva, Intuit, and Alliant Techsystems (now part of Northrop Grumman).
Rachel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communication from Boston University. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), Los Angeles Chapter.
Connie Puglia is Reltio's Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer. In this role, Connie oversees all aspects of global Human Resources including Facilities. Connie's expertise spans more than 20 years, and includes proven success designing and implementing global HR models and strategic plans that deliver measurable business results for rapidly growing, transforming, and disruptive companies. Prior to Reltio, Connie Puglia was TiVo's Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer where she was responsible for global Human Resources including Real Estate and Internal Comms. Connie has also held global HR leadership roles at NetApp, Avaya, Zipcar, and Aspect Software, where she was responsible for talent acquisition, compensation, leadership development, strategic talent management initiatives and workforce analytics. Connie holds a B.S. in Management from Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts.
James Lok has decades of experience managing product development and engineering teams at multinational corporations. He joins Reltio from Imperva, a cybersecurity company, where he led Global Product Development and was responsible for all engineering for AppSecurity and DataSecurity. Prior to Imperva, Lok was SVP of Engineering at LogMeIn, which he joined when the company acquired GetGo, a once wholly-owned subsidiary of Citrix that merged with LogMeIn in early 2017. Before Citrix, Lok was the VP of the Payment Solutions Division at Intuit. He earned an M.S. in Computer Engineering from USC and B.S. of Electrical Engineering at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo.
Bud McGann is Reltio’s EVP of Global Sales, responsible for overseeing global sales, alliances, business development, solutions consulting, value engineering, field and partner enablement, and field operations. Prior to Reltio, Bud was the Chief Revenue Officer at Crimson Hexagon, responsible for global revenue associated with new and existing customers, channel partnerships, account management, sales operations, and business development. Prior to that, he had executive roles at Tidemark and SuccessFactors/SAP. Bud helped SuccessFactors grow into a billion-dollar business. During his 9+ year tenure, SuccessFactors went public, acquired multiple companies, and was ultimately acquired by SAP for $3.4 billion. Bud holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Accounting from Drexel University.
Manish Jain is responsible for leading the strategy and operations of Reltio, a company trusted by innovative Global 2000 companies who know that connected customer data is at the heart of customer experience, in India. He has 20+ years of experience in building highly scalable complex platforms and applications on SAAS/IAAS Ecosystem. Prior to Reltio, Manish founded and led the Indian Operations of Jamcracker, a Cloud Services company. Manish brings in strong people and product leadership and has built high caliber functional teams from ground up in a fast moving entrepreneurial environment.
Board of Directors
Chris Hylen
Chief Executive Officer
Chris is the CEO and board member of Reltio. He leads the strategy, operations, overall performance and growth of Reltio. Previously, Chris served as CEO of Imperva, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, where he led a successful turnaround and $2.3B sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Before that, he served as President and CEO of Citrix mobility business unit, called GetGo, where he led the spin off and the merger with LogMeIn in 2017 for $1.8B. Chris also held leadership positions at Intuit, ADP, and American Express. Chris earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. degree in Engineering from Widener University.
Carla Stratfold
Former Vice President of Global & Strategic Accounts at Amazon Web Services
Carla has a proven record of successfully scaling business operations and growing software revenue and margins at major global technology companies including AWS, Oracle, and RealNetworks. She joined the Reltio Board of Directors in October 2021 immediately after retiring from AWS where she led the Americas Sales organization and Global & Strategic Accounts team responsible for supporting Fortune 200 companies through a period of rapid growth and expansion. Carla led Oracle’s Americas Product Sales and Marketing organization. At RealNetworks, she was the senior executive responsible for sales and distribution of technology and content services.
Jo-ann de Pass Olsovsky
Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer at Salesforce
A technology industry veteran and 14-year CIO, Jo-ann brings nearly 40 years of technology experience to the Reltio Board of Directors. She is currently the CIO at Salesforce and oversees the company’s global IT organization including technology strategy, architecture, applications, engineering, M&A systems integrations, data/analytics, network infrastructure, cloud services, and enterprise operations. Jo-ann has earned numerous industry recognitions for technology achievements, including being named to the Computerworld Top 100 and Technology magazine's 2021 TOP100 CIOs lists.
Mike Gregoire
Partner at Brighton Park Capital
Prior to joining BPC, Mike was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CA Technologies where he started in 2013. Previously, Mike was Chairman and CEO of Taleo Corporation, a leading cloud-based talent management software company that he oversaw going public before its successful sale to Oracle in 2012. With a career spanning more than 25 years in software and technology, Mike also served as Executive Vice President at People Soft from 1999 to 2004 and Executive Director at Electronic Data Systems EDS from 1988 to 1999. Mike is widely recognized as a strategic thinker in the information technology industry. He has been the chair of the World Economic Forum’s IT Governors Steering Committee, as well as a member of the Business Roundtable’s Information and Technology Committee. Mike also serves on the Executive Council of TechNet, an organization of CEOs that represents the technology industry in policy issues critical to American innovation and economic competitiveness. Mike earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and Computing from Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and a Master of Business Administration degree from California Coast University.
Sandy Smith
Former CFO of Segment
Smith brings a unique blend of global financial, legal, and technology operating experience that will be valuable to Reltio as the company continues to grow and scale. Smith has held various financial leadership roles in the technology industry. Prior to Segment, she served as the Vice President of Finance at Twilio, and participated in various private and public financings, including their 2016 IPO. Before that, Smith was with Akamai Technologies in various finance roles. She began her career as outside counsel for public companies on SEC matters before shifting focus to advise emerging, venture-backed technology companies.
Manish Sood
CTO, Founder & Chairman, Chief Technology Officer
Manish is Reltio’s Founder & Chairman and CTO, responsible for overseeing the Office of the CTO, M&A strategy, business development, long-term product strategy and innovation at Reltio. Prior to founding Reltio in 2011, Manish led Product strategy and management for the Master Data Management (MDM) platform at Informatica and Siperian. He is the co-author of the patent that revolutionized MDM through a global business identifier. During his career, Manish has architected some of the largest and most widely used data management solutions used by Fortune 100 companies today.
Jim Feuille
Partner, Crosslink Capital
Jim joined Crosslink in 2002, bringing 20 years of technology investment banking and management experience to the firm. Jim’s prior positions included global head of technology investment banking at UBS, where he built a powerful global technology investment banking practice from scratch; Chief operating officer at Volpe Brown Whelan & Company, where he ran all aspects of the firm’s investment banking and brokerage operations and led the firm to record growth in revenue and market share prior to its acquisition by Prudential; and head of technology investment banking at Robertson Stephens, where he built the technology investment banking team into a leadership position in the industry.
Mark Templeton
Independent Board Member
Mark is the former president and chief executive officer of Citrix Systems where he shaped the company for over 20 years, propelling Citrix as one of the world’s largest enterprise computing and software-as-a service companies. Citrix transformed from a $15 million organization with one product, one customer segment, and one go-to-market path, into a global organization with annual revenues of over $3 billion and 100 million users worldwide. He also serves as an independent director at Arista Networks and Health Catalyst. Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in product design from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Mike Gustafson
Independent Board Member
For more than 25 years, Mike has served in executive leadership and management roles across infrastructure and software companies – public and private, startups and established companies – as well as high growth businesses. Today he is the executive chairman at Druva an enterprise SaaS platform for data protection across data centers, cloud applications and endpoints. In addition to being a board member at Reltio, is an independent board member at Matterport, PDF Solutions and Everspin. Among his deep operational and leadership experience, Mike was senior vice president and general manager of WD’s (Western Digital Corporation) Flash Platforms Business, and before that, served as CEO and chairman of Virident Systems (acquired by Western Digital). He also led BlueArc Corporation as CEO and board member, which was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems. Mike led worldwide sales, marketing and services over a six year career at McDATA Corporation, which went public in 2000 and grew to more than $450M in revenues during that time. And early in his career, he served in various marketing and sales roles at IBM.
Tom Bogan
Vice Chairman of Workday, Inc.
Tom currently serves as Vice Chairman of Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. While CEO of Adaptive Insights, a cloud-based software platform used by businesses to plan their operations, Bogan negotiated the 2018 sale of the company to Workday in a cash deal valued at $1.55 billion. Bogan was a partner at Greylock Partners and board member at leading enterprise software and cloud companies. These include Chairman positions with Citrix Systems and Apptio, and board member roles with PTC, Rally Software, Acquia, and many other SaaS software companies.
Board Observers
Graham Brooks
Partner, .406 Ventures
Graham leads data and cloud investing for .406 Ventures, focusing on highly disruptive, deep tech companies in the data stack, AI and cloud enablement space with a specific focus on healthcare and financial services. Graham has been at .406 Ventures since 2007, and in addition to investing runs the firm’s college outreach program.
At .406 Graham has led and been involved on the boards for 20+ investments including: Abacus Insights, ChaosSearch, ClosedLoop, Corvus Insurance, indico, Gamalon, Linea, Promethium, Reltio, and Simon Data. Exited companies with previous involvement include: AbleTo (recapitalized by Optum), AdTuitive (acquired by Etsy), Compass (NYSE: COMP) and Digitalsmiths (acquired by TiVo).
Prior to .406 Graham was an engineer and DBA at ALK Technologies, Cofounder and Head of Sales at Accentus and BizDev/Corp Dev for Bose Corporation. Graham holds an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth where he was a Tuck Scholar and an engineering degree from Princeton University where he majored in computer science.
Liam Donohue
Founder, .406 Ventures
At .406 Ventures, Liam leads all healthcare investments focusing on early-stage companies that offer systems, technologies and services that support clinical delivery. He also teams up with Graham on .406’s data and analytics investment practice, as well as overseeing fundraising and other .406 firm responsibilities.
Liam has spent the past two decades as a venture investor, but he is perhaps most proud of his entrepreneurial activities – founding/co-founding four successful businesses, including two venture capital funds.
He started his career as a Principal at Foster Management, a venture investor focused on service industry investments; then co-founded Arcadia Partners, a fund focused on technology-enabled education companies; and finally, co-founded .406 Ventures with Larry and Maria. Over this time, Liam has invested over $130M of capital in 21 investments.
Liam earned a BS in Chemistry from Georgetown University and earned an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
Nino Marakovic
CEO and Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures
Nino is responsible for the overall investment strategy, execution, operations and performance of Sapphire Ventures. After more than 20 years in various investing and operating capacities, Nino has participated in investments in more than 100 private companies and has held numerous board seats. Currently, he is a board director/observer at Inkling, Integral Ad Science, OpenX, Reltio and Tidalscale. He is furthermore closely involved with investments in Alteryx, Box (BOX), Feedzai, iovation, MuleSoft, Scytl and Square (SQ).
Before Sapphire Ventures, Nino was a partner with meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson and IVF Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Nino worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Robertson Stephens. He has a BA in economics and psychology from Williams College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Nino was born in Croatia, and has also lived in Austria, Italy and Germany before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 20 years ago.
Rajeev Dham
Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures
Rajeev Dham joined Sapphire Ventures in 2013, bringing with him broad technology investing experience. Rajeev’s investment focus is split between SaaS businesses as well as category-defining innovators in financial technology and healthcare.
Since joining Sapphire, Rajeev has been involved in 20+ investments and dozens of boards. Rajeev has led investments in and supports the boards of Adverity, Catchpoint, Highspot, LeanData, Livongo (NASDAQ: LVGO), Monday.com, Outreach, Pendo, Podium and Reltio. Rajeev’s previous investments at Sapphire include Alteryx (NYSE: AYX), Cloudhealth (acquired by VMWare) and Krux (acquired by Salesforce).
Previously, Rajeev worked for Silver Lake, a technology-focused private equity firm, where he evaluated middle-market and growth equity investments across the software and internet sectors. Prior to his private equity career, Rajeev worked for the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. He also spent time during business school working with Amazon’s corporate development group.
Rajeev holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and received a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Southern California, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Samantha Wang
Co-Founder and Partner, RPS Ventures
Samantha is a co-founder and General Partner at RPS Ventures, a later stage venture capital firm, focused on investing in revolutionary technology companies led by exceptional teams. RPS helps high-growth companies navigate today’s global environment, with access to a key network of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs.
Prior to co-founding RPS, Samantha was a Partner at Crosslink Capital, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Prior to Crosslink, Samantha spent 10+ years as a marketing leader, and was an executive at LegalZoom, the leading provider of online legal services. Earlier in her career, Samantha was a venture investor at 3i Group, and an investment banker at Deutsche Bank. Samantha holds a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University.