Reltio Leadership Team

Manish Sood 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, he founded Reltio in 2011 to help organizations accelerate the value of their data and deliver on business outcomes. Since its inception, Sood has led Reltio’s evolution from the concept stage to a high-growth company with more than $185 million in annual revenue.

Sood previously led product strategy and management for the Master Data Management (MDM) platform at Informatica and Siperian. During his career, he has architected some of the largest and most widely used data management solutions used by most Fortune 500 companies today. He 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.

Don Bulmer is Reltio’s Chief Marketing Officer, responsible for leading the marketing organization, including brand, demand generation, product marketing, and digital marketing. Don has over 25 years of experience driving impactful marketing strategies in both B2B and B2C sectors. He has held leadership roles at some of the world’s most influential companies, including Veeva Systems, AWS, Shell, Gartner, SAP, and several innovative Silicon Valley startups. Most recently, Don served as Vice President of Marketing and CM0 for Veeva Consumer Products, where he transformed marketing efforts—driving 200% growth, tripling the pipeline, and reducing sales cycles from years to just months. Earlier in his career, Don was Vice President and Executive Partner at Gartner, where he founded and scaled the company’s CMO advisory service, helping business leaders navigate digital transformation, market expansion, and customer success across diverse industries. Don holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from University of the Pacific.

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, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly Hastings College of the Law).

Colleen Dunlop is Chief Financial Officer at Reltio, leading the company’s global finance organization, including accounting, financial planning and analysis, treasury, tax, procurement, and business operations. Since joining Reltio five years ago, she has helped scale the finance function through a period of significant growth and was promoted from Vice President, Controller to Chief Financial Officer. Before joining Reltio, Colleen held finance leadership positions at several private companies, where she helped build and scale high-growth organizations. She began her career at Deloitte, spending more than a decade advising public and private companies on accounting, financial reporting, and business transformation. Colleen is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), earned a BS in Accounting at the University of Florida and MAcc from Stetson University.

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.

Trish Hayward is a growth catalyst with 30 years of experience helping business leaders achieve aggressive goals. She is known for rapid pattern recognition, a direct communication style, and an engineering mindset—sharpened through work with 100+ industry leaders and high-growth innovators including AWS, SAP, Workday, Atlassian, Schwab, American Express, Citibank, Janssen, and Blue Shield. At Reltio, Trish brings this discipline to the age of AI, recognizing that AI is the unlock for enterprises’ most pressing business challenges—and that trusted, real-time data is the unlock for AI. She helps leaders translate AI from concept to competitive advantage in how their companies meet customer needs, deliver value, and win in the AI-driven economy. Trish holds an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a BS from the Pennsylvania State University.

Ansh Kanwar is Chief Product Officer (CPO) overseeing 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.

Scott Vandiver is a seasoned enterprise SaaS executive with over 20 years of experience driving customer success, building high-performing teams, and revenue growth. Scott leads the global sales team, empowering enterprise clients to unlock business value through cloud-native, AI-driven master data management solutions. Prior to joining Reltio, Scott held senior leadership positions at Informatica, SAP, and Agile Software, where he consistently delivered outstanding sales results and played a pivotal role in scaling business operations. He brings deep expertise in SaaS, data management, and enterprise software, with a proven ability to align sales strategy with evolving customer needs. Scott holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and an MBA from Auburn University. He is passionate about innovation, customer success, and driving data-driven growth.

Alyson is a go-to-market expert with nearly 30 years of experience across enterprise data platforms, application security, and SaaS. She has built and scaled GTM organizations in Fortune 1000 companies, mid-cap firms, and early-stage startups. Alyson is also known for her deep expertise in organizational planning, and a growth philosophy rooted in building intellectually curious teams who care deeply about the business outcomes they drive for customers. She sits on the board of Bambuser, a video commerce platform and is also the founder of Poppy Ventures, launched in 2019 to unite financially independent female leaders fostering community, providing capital, and strategic consulting to help women ascend to founder, C-suite, and VP roles in tech. Alyson holds a BA in Economics and French from Bucknell University. She currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Bucknell’s Freeman College of Management, where she supports students and alumni in their business and technology careers.

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.

Venkat Venkatraman is a member of the Reltio Advisory Board. He is Professor Emeritus at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business and a renowned expert on digital strategy and transformation. Author of two acclaimed books, he has advised leading companies on transforming their business to win in the digital era, and held professorship roles at MIT Sloan and the London Business School. His research and advisory work focus on how large firms reimagine their core capabilities in the age of data, AI, and digital ecosystems.