Reltio Leadership Team

Manish is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Reltio, the first cloud-native, software-as-a-service (SaaS) data platform. An entrepreneur with a vision of the big-picture ways data can drive business and industry transformations, Manish founded Reltio in 2011 to help organizations accelerate the value of their data and deliver on business outcomes. Since its inception, Manish has led Reltio’s evolution from the concept stage to a high-growth company valued at $1.7 billion with more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Manish previously led product strategy and management for the Master Data Management (MDM) platform at Informatica and Siperian. During his career, Manish has architected some of the largest and most widely used data management solutions used by most Fortune 500 companies today. Manish holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Andhra University College of Engineering.

Deanne is Chief Customer Officer of Reltio. She oversees and manages global professional services, customer engineering, customer success organizations, and the overall customer experience.

Deanne has over 20 years of experience in data management. Before joining Reltio, she held key sales and leadership positions in professional services and customer success and engagement, accumulating extensive knowledge in developing and implementing customer-centric strategies. During her tenure at Reltio, Deanne has held leadership positions across functions, including alliances, product management, enablement, professional services, and customer success. Deanne holds a BS degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry University.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Eric is responsible for leading, growing, and scaling global revenue operations for Reltio. In this role, Eric manages global go-to-market and works strategically across multiple organization functions, including finance, marketing, operations, and others, to align all revenue-generating activities.

Eric brings more than 20 years of experience leading and scaling high-growth organizations. Most recently, he served as CRO of Appian Corporation. Before that, he was a member of the senior operating team at Apigee on the company journey from mid-stage startup through successful IPO and eventual acquisition by Google. He also served in various senior leadership roles with Blue Coat Systems, Citrix Systems, PeopleSoft, and Salesforce.com. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Risk Management degree from the University of Georgia.

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.

Praveen Grover is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Reltio. Praveen leads the global Engineering teams and is responsible for platform engineering and Technology Operations.

Praveen brings over 25 years of software engineering experience. Before joining Reltio, Praveen was Vice President of Reliability Engineering at Adobe. Before joining Adobe, he worked for Citrix for 18 years as Vice President of Engineering. He led engineering and operations for Sharefile, Podio, RightSignature, and the engineering teams for Netscaler and other core Citrix virtualization and security products. Praveen holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from Pune University in India.

Ansh Kanwar is Executive Vice President (EVP) of Technology, Product and Strategy at Reltio. He oversees Reltio’s global software engineering, product management, and technology operations.

Ansh has extensive experience in product management, software development, product marketing, security, cloud computing, and technology operations. Over the last 23 years, he has held numerous senior technical and management roles, including at Citrix Systems, where he served as Vice President, Technology Operations, and LogMeIn, where he served as Chief Technology Officer, and General Manager, Products and Technology at Onapsis.

Ansh is a public speaker and loves discussing Data Unification and Management, AI in Data, Data Products, the Ethical use of Data, and building at scale SaaS products. He has a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Delhi University, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

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 is Reltio’s Chief Financial Officer. He is responsible for overseeing global accounting, finance, tax, treasury, and IT.

Prior to Reltio, James was with Payscale, where he served as CFO. James has more than two decades of strategic and operational financial experience at notable companies, including Workday, Morgan Stanley and Accenture. James received Bachelors and Masters degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and a dual MBA and Masters degree from the Wharton School and Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Maria joined Reltio in October 2021 to lead growth initiatives across Reltio’s go-to-market teams, and now leads the overall marketing organization.

Prior to joining Reltio, Maria was CMO at Nitro Software, building and leading the marketing team. She was responsible for reshaping the positioning, brand, growth initiatives, and go-to-market strategy to accelerate B2B Enterprise and eCommerce revenue for this market disruptor in e-signing and PDF platforms.

Maria previously also served as Vice President of Growth Strategy at cybersecurity leader Imperva. In this role, she was responsible for brand, digital, web and ABM transformation, leading that company’s SDR team, and later shifting to enterprise SaaS.

Previously, Maria held senior leadership roles in the technology sector, including LogMeln, Citrix and Intuit, and has a proven track record in driving SaaS growth. She also formerly held executive leadership roles at Healthcare and Life Science technology start-ups Metis and Medem. Maria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Global Studies from Alverno College.

Venki Subramanian is Senior Vice President of Product Management, responsible for platform and industry solutions. Venki leads Reltio’s product strategy and works with the product and engineering teams to translate our long-term product vision into products and solutions that deliver value to our customers. He also focuses on building strategic technology partnerships and joint solutions.

Venki has over two decades of experience in SaaS and systems solutions for customer experience, CRM, and cloud platforms. Prior to joining Reltio in 2019, Venki led product management for ServiceNow’s customer service management portfolio, responsible for crafting the long-term product strategy for all its applications and developing it into a market leader in its category. He also worked at SAP Labs in several management and development roles and was a member of the product management team for SAP’s cloud CRM solutions. Venki has an MBA in marketing and finance from Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, an MS in software engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and a Bachelor’s in technology and mechanical engineering from the University of Calicut.

Mihir Shah is a member of the Reltio Advisory Board. Mihir’s work is well known in Data Architecture and Engineering community but he also brings a wide variety of experience in technology, digital transformation and technology implementation in the Financial Services industry. Mihir served as the CIO/ Head of Data Architecture and Engineering at Fidelity Investments before retiring in March 2024. He was responsible for executing on an enterprise wide data strategy including Firm Master Data Management platform and a Firm Wide Data & Analytics Platform.

Prior to this he was the Head of Technology Architecture Group at Fidelity and also served as the Chief Technology Officer for Fidelity’s Asset Management business where he architected and executed on a complete technology overhaul of the Asset Management Platform that manages over $4 Trillion. He has a Bachelors in Engineering and an MBA from University of Bombay.