Our Leadership Team

Chris Brown

Chief Product Officer

Chris Brown is the chief product officer at Relativity. He leads our product and user experience teams and is responsible for the development of Relativity’s product vision, strategy, and product roadmap in collaboration with engineering. Prior to joining Relativity, Chris held CEO and chief product officer roles for fellow Chicago-based companies Kapow Events and Orbitz Worldwide, respectively — where his teams delivered transformative online platforms for global B2C and B2B customers in the corporate events and travel industries. Chris began his career in Austin, Texas where he advanced to leadership positions in software engineering and product management, and earned his initial experience as an entrepreneur. An Illinois native and electrical and computer engineering graduate from the University of Illinois in 1998, Chris has served on the ECE Illinois Alumni Board since 2017.

Fun Facts

• Loves coaching his four kids in soccer, basketball, volleyball, snowboarding, mountain biking, or anything else they will let him
• Favorite mode of travel is by bicycle and hopes to bike across the country some day
• Is an identical twin

Keith Carlson

Chief Technology Officer

Keith Carlson is the chief technology officer of Relativity. As head of technology and architecture strategy, Keith oversees the engineering delivery, engineering operations, and production engineering functions. In his career, Keith has been a co-founder, programmer, team lead, principal engineer, and chief technology officer. He most recently spent seven plus years at Amazon Web Services where he developed one of the first cloud fraud prevention and detection organizations and grew it to where it was evaluating ten trillion pieces of data a day. Keith is excited to apply his extensive developer experience to help mature RelativityOne’s SaaS delivery model and expand Relativity’s reach into the unstructured data realm.

Fun Facts

• First accessed the internet through his mother's work terminal at Indiana University in 1982
• Grew up in southern Indiana and started playing basketball in his early teens and played multiple times per week into his early 40s
• Has written production software in 17 different programming languages

Beth Clutterbuck

Chief Human Resources Officer

Beth joined the Relativity team in 2020 as CHRO and brings over 20+ years of human resources experience across four countries and five sectors (financial services, biotechnology, manufacturing, media text-left p-4 mt-0, and technology) to Relativity. In her former roles at Cloudreach and Deliveroo, Beth oversaw the building of the global people strategy and underpinning scaffolding to drive the rapid scaling of these high growth technology firms. In Beth's prior roles at NBCUniversal and HSBC, her main focus was on building cutting edge employee experience through talent programs and culture. Earlier roles at Citigroup and Honeywell provided Beth a strong foundational background as an HR business partner and talent leader. Beth and her husband Gavin have three children — Lucy, Lauren, and Charlie. Beth received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

Fun Facts

• Travelled (hiked, biked, and camped) every US state except Alaska
• Has three children all born in Switzerland and has lived in four countries
• Loves skiing and sailing – and is a bit of an adrenaline junkie

Peter Kim

Chief Sales Officer

Peter Kim joined Relativity in 2018 as the Head of Sales Operations and Enablement before becoming the VP of Sales in 2019 and Chief Sales Officer in 2021. In his current role as Chief Sales Officer, he oversees the global sales, revenue operations and pre-sales engineering teams. Peter has spent over 20 years in B2B enterprise software leading sales teams focused on solving complex customer problems. He started his career in technology in San Francisco where he spent over a decade working for a market leading FinTech software provider, Advent Software. He then joined LinkedIn during the company’s hyper-growth phase, building and scaling sales teams for nearly eight years. Peter is a native of Chicago, but currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Fun Facts

• He’s an avid world traveler and so are his children who have all had airline status since birth
• Largemouth bass fisherman
• Amateur DJ

Sailesh Munagala

Chief Financial Officer

Sailesh Munagala joined the Relativity team as Chief Financial Officer in January 2021. In his role, he oversees finance, accounting, real estate, and procurement functions. Sailesh is a hands-on finance executive with extensive experience in managing both early-stage and at-scale high-growth technology companies. Most recently, Sailesh worked at Google where he led financial planning and analysis for Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google, Sailesh held CFO, Cortex, and VP, Finance roles at Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity company. He received his MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley – Walter A. Haas School of Business, his master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University.

Fun Facts

• A technologist at heart - enjoys spending time teaching coding to his children and learning new programming languages when possible
• A die-hard cricket fan and is always up for a game of squash
• Has visited volcanoes (including a few large active ones) on four different continents

Cristina Rossman

Chief Marketing Officer

Cristina Rossman joined the Relativity team as Chief Marketing Officer in 2020. In her role, she is responsible for leading the marketing organization. With her extensive experience in building products, programs and functions from scratch, she brings an engineering mindset to decision making and execution while valuing the role of creativity in crafting differentiated experiences. Cristina has led teams through multiple stages of growth at both public and private companies. Most recently, she was Vice President, Product Marketing at Morningstar where she established a product marketing discipline within a newly centralized marketing function. In her 18 years at Morningstar working on both the product and marketing side, some of her notable accomplishments include launching and growing Morningstar Direct, a global investment analysis platform, as well as integrating marketing strategy for Morningstar’s largest revenue driving segment – asset management. She received her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan and her MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Fun Facts

• Lifelong student of the French language
• Plans her travel adventures around food and nature
• Sneezes in direct sunlight thanks to Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst (ACHOO) Syndrome

Laurie Usewicz

Chief Partner Officer

Laurie joined Relativity as Chief Partner Officer in May 2023. Laurie has 25+ years in data security technology and partnership experience. As Chief Partner Officer, Laurie leads the team responsible for all go-to-market partner motions and works cross functionally with the executive team to drive alignment to deliver partner success. Most recently, Laurie was Senior Vice President, Business Operations & Strategy, SumTotal at Cornerstone OnDemand. She managed operations for the entire SumTotal business, which Cornerstone acquired from SkillSoft. She joined Cornerstone through the company’s acquisition of Saba Software and was the executive leader for the integration of Saba and Cornerstone. Following the integration, she ran sales strategy and business operations for the Americas for the combined company. Laurie has been recognized by CRN Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in the Channel and recognized on the Channel Chief list for six consecutive years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in marketing from St. John’s University.

Fun Facts

• She has a husband and two children, Joey and Ashley. Her children are following closely in mom’s footsteps. Joey recently graduated college and has also ventured into software technology and Ashley is attending college in a four-year program to graduate with her master’s degree in marketing.
• She never misses a day when it comes to her early morning workouts.
• She enjoys boating on Lake Mahopac and will keep her boat out until the fall to enjoy the autumn colors on the trees.

Andrew Watts

Chief Customer Officer

As CCO, Andrew leads Relativity’s customer support, customer success and cloud operations teams. Andrew and his teams are responsible for developing the ultimate partnership and success for customers using Relativity’s products. Andrew has led the Service Delivery organization since 2018 and has worked with RelativityOne cloud customers since the launch of the product. As of 2020, he has led the services for the entire suite of products and has a passion for the opportunities and challenges of making all of Relativity’s customers successful across current and new products. Andrew previously held the role of chief information officer at Relativity from 2017-2021, where he built and supported the organization’s information technology along with governance and compliance processes. He joined the company in 2016 as VP of IT to oversee the IT department comprising of three groups: applications, infrastructure, and project management. Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in IT.

Prior to joining Relativity, he served as the director of IT at Morningstar, an investment research and management firm. At Morningstar, he oversaw a 200-person IT department, lead the information technology aspects of 30 acquisitions and two divestures, and implemented both major system enhancements and significant technology and security improvements. Before moving to Chicago, Andrew held several IT positions in Australia, his home country, at companies including WorldxChange, New Tel, and SingTel. Andrew holds a computer science degree from the University of Technology Sydney.

Fun Facts

• Started using a computer when he was eight years old and learned how to program because his parents wouldn’t buy more games
• Is Australian and he tries to escape Chicago’s winters every January or February

Adam Weiss

Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer

Adam joined Relativity as Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer in January 2023. In his role, he is charged with assessing and advancing operational and organizational effectiveness across the company. He oversees Relativity's Legal, IT and Poland-based Operations departments. Adam also focuses on fostering connections and collaborating with Relativity customers, partners and stakeholders, drawing upon his own background as a legal executive.

Adam has two decades of experience in the legal and technology industries. He previously held the position of Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of Cornerstone OnDemand where in addition to overseeing legal and data privacy functions, his responsibilities included managing human resources, internal communications, IT and business systems with a focus on organizational effectiveness, employee experience and operational efficiency. During his 16-year tenure with Cornerstone, he supported annual revenue growth from $7 million to nearly $900 million and played an integral role in guiding the company through major milestones, including global expansion, an initial public offering, multiple acquisitions, a founder-CEO transition, a $5.2 billion take-private transaction and the creation of the Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation.

Prior to joining Cornerstone, Adam practiced law at what is now Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz, Hogan & Martin. He holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University. He has served on the boards of several nonprofit and community organizations, including Shalom Institute, the Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce, IKAR and American Jewish Committee.

Fun Facts

• He has been an avid runner for more than 20 years but has never run a marathon.
• He spends a portion of most summers in Poland, his wife’s home country.
• He has officiated 10 weddings.