Trust is The New Currency™
We believe every organization should have full transparency and visibility into their data flows to give privacy, data governance, security, and engineering teams confidence to protect personal data.

Our story
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Leila Golchehreh
Leila is an entrepreneur and data protection attorney with extensive international experience who spent much of her career building data protection programs for diverse clients, including in private practice, as well as for Workday, Adaptive Insights, and other global organizations. When given the herculean task of preparing decades’ old companies for the GDPR in 3-5 months, she demoed every privacy tech tool on the market. She only found workflow solutions—no tools deeply embedded into the technical stacks at organizations. Leila needed transparency into data processing, with the understanding that to truly build an effective data protection program, all organizations need a foundational, real-time understanding of data flows to evaluate data processing internally and throughout the vendor supply chain. Leila’s extensive experience and passion for privacy drove her to reimagine what data protection means in a globalized, technology-driven world. Building a foundational data inventory and map through better technology became her vision for a privacy and data governance company.
years attorney, entrepreneur + data protection expert

Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Abhi Sharma
Abhi is a 2X tech entrepreneur and machine learning expert. He spent most of his career building tech and go-to-market for products involving compilers, real-time/large-scale data processing, machine learning, and observability tools for continuous visibility into data flows. Given his work in compilers, Abhi became obsessed with simplifying the expressibility of data-processing intent while automatically synthesizing data types, computation intent, call-graphs, and data flows in applications and machine learning models. In 2019, he started advising first-time founders on product/go-to-market, and was a technologist-in-residence in venture capital. During this time, he was actively exploring how extreme domain specializations in various industries could slow down the speed of innovation, cross-pollination of ideas, and thus human progress overall. He even saw this manifest as silos between different departments within organizations. Ever since, he has been passionate about applying meta-modeling, and machine learning to challenging problems at the intersection of widely different domains.
entrepreneur + machine learning expert

Forward together
In one of those magical moments in San Francisco, Abhi and Leila met for pizza at the end of 2019 for one of their last in person meals in San Francisco before COVID-19 hit. They began discussing the major problems faced in the data protection and compliance space, Leila’s plan, and the UI/UX mockups she created to solve this. Abhi instantly started to look at the problem from a fresh machine learning perspective at the intersection of law and technology. Abhi drew connections between some of the problems Leila was working to solve and his own experiences, and envisioned a shift-left perspective based on observability and compiler principles that could be applied to the data protection and compliance domain. This deeply resonated with Leila, and together with their stellar team, are now, through technology, offering transparency and visibility into data processing at organizations across the world. Relyance AI is reinventing the state of the art on privacy and data governance technology from the ground up, building a generational, mission-driven company.
Our stellar team



Alexander
Zotov
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Andrew
Morgan



Brendan
Orf
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Evan
Fairweather



Guy
Antilla



Karey
Trevan



Lakshmisha
Bhat
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Michelle
Dempsey



Rachel
Li
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Rahul
Jagad



Sara
Higgins



Vince
Freeh



Phil
Lee



Jyoti
Bansal



Dev
Ittycheria



Henry
Ward



Meredith
Halama



Susan
Hintze



Mike
Hintze



Ashok
Banerjee



Rob
Hull



Mike
Britton
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Gerhard
Eschelbeck



John
Vrionis



Jyoti
Bansal



Matt
Murphy


Our culture and core values
Relyance AI exists because we believe innovation is fundamental to human progress. We build for people—our customers, our team, and the global community. Our core values brought us into existence, and they’re the motor that keeps us running.
Global Impact
Think big. Beyond borders.
Trust
Lost easily. Built carefully.
Critical Thinking
Critical eye. Critical mind.
Customer
Redefine satisfaction. Build loyalty.
Persistence
Celebrate failure. Keep going.
Team
Fast alone. Far together.
Join our team of curious builders
Relyance AI is at the forefront of the technological revolution in privacy and data protection, one of society’s most pressing and visible social issues. Relyance AI thrives off of and celebrates diversity. We are committed to creating a safe, healthy, and inclusive work environment no matter our employees' race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status, and encourage diverse candidates to apply.
Contact our team
Learn more about how Relyance AI offers Trust as a Service™, see a live demo, or ask us your questions