Reltio Appoints Industry Veterans Alyson Welch as Chief Revenue Officer and Trish Hayward as ChiefAI Business Transformation Officer

Seasoned executives join Reltio’s leadership team to support its accelerated  growth in the agentic AI era.

Redwood Shores, CA — October 7, 2025 — Reltio®, a leader in real-time data intelligence, announced today that it has appointed Alyson Welch as Chief Revenue Officer and Trish Hayward as Chief AI Business Transformation Officer. Building on Reltio’s recent momentum across AI and agentic AI, the additions underscore the company’s growing leadership in real‑time, agentic AI-driven data intelligence and its commitment to enterprise AI transformation.

“We are pleased to welcome Alyson and Trish to Reltio. They each bring significant experience advising, leading and scaling enterprise technology businesses within their respective areas of expertise,” said Manish Sood, CEO and Founder of Reltio. “These important additions to our executive team will help propel us toward the enormous opportunity presented by the need for intelligent data. As organizations around the globe move quickly to onboard agentic AI capabilities, they need trusted, timely contextual data to unlock their power. Alyson and Trish bring the right blend of strategic insight and leadership to help Reltio drive even greater positive impact for our customers.”

Chief Revenue Officer to Deepen Existing Customer Relationships and Drive New Business

Alyson Welch brings over 25 years of experience in building and leading high-performing go-to-market teams. Recently, she served as CRO at Neo4j, where she restructured the revenue organization and doubled enterprise growth. Before that, she spent six years at Twilio, where she built the company’s North America enterprise sales organization during a period of 10x revenue growth. Earlier in her career, Alyson held leadership roles at Akamai, Zignal Labs, and Accenture, and was consistently recognized for scaling teams, developing talent, and driving results in complex enterprise environments.

As CRO, Welch will oversee Global Sales, Alliances, Partners, Solution Consulting, Customer Experience, and Revenue Operations at Reltio.

“Throughout my career, I’ve seen customers struggle to deliver the engagement and trusted relationships they want because of siloed data and competing governance requirements. With the rise of AI, those frustrations have only intensified,” said Welch.  “That’s why I’m excited to join Reltio, a company that gives enterprises a secure, trusted way to unify their data and unlock AI’s potential. Our platform is truly becoming the ‘System of Context,’ and I look forward to helping customers realize that vision as Reltio’s Chief Revenue Officer.”

Chief AI Business Transformation Officer to Advance Enterprise AI Mission

As Chief AI Business Transformation Officer, Trish Hayward will focus on elevating Reltio’s role as the trusted data foundation for enterprise AI—amplifying its narrative in the market, engaging C-suite leaders, and demonstrating how trusted, real-time data fuels AI transformation.

Over her 30+ year career in business strategy, Hayward has earned a reputation as a catalyst for enterprise growth. Leaders at companies such as Workday, AWS, VMware, Atlassian, Cisco, SAP, Janssen, Blue Shield, Intuit, Schwab, Wells Fargo, and Citibank have relied on her to increase valuations, accelerate revenue growth, shorten time to market, and enhance customer experience. Her appointment reflects Reltio’s commitment to combining technology leadership with strategic insights to empower customers to turn AI ambition into business outcomes.

“AI will reshape every enterprise, but only those with a foundation of trusted, real-time data will unlock its true competitive advantage. That’s why I’m all in on Reltio. Having worked with this team over several years, I know Reltio is uniquely positioned to fuel enterprise AI success. I’m excited to support Reltio customers as they accelerate growth, efficiency, and customer impact in the age of AI.” said Hayward.

Expanded Leadership Team Builds Further Momentum

With these appointments, Reltio strengthens its leadership team and advances its strategic focus on building an intelligent data fabric, enabling real-time AI, and delivering context-rich, unified data across domains. This momentum comes as business leaders increasingly recognize that comprehensive data unification is the foundation for unlocking AI’s potential and achieving the scalability, reliability, and flexibility needed for enterprise transformation.

Since its founding in 2011, Reltio has grown into a high-growth company serving some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Its data unification platform helps enterprises harness, connect, cleanse, and unify multisource data into a single, trusted source of truth in real-time. Today, Reltio proudly supports companies of all sizes, including 38 Fortune 500 companies, with globally recognized customers such as Pfizer, Hewlett Packard, CarMax, and AstraZeneca.

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