Reltio, a SaaS company that provides a modern data management platform wherein enterprises deploy new generation of data-driven applications, announced the appointment of Eugene Lao as General Counsel.
Lao has more than two decades of experience advising major tech companies including DocuSign, Yahoo!, and Zynga as a senior attorney and leading global legal teams, Lao has extensive expertise across many complex legal disciplines, the company said in a press statement.
Prior to Reltio, Lao served as Vice President and General Counsel at DocuSign, Auction.com, and Zynga, and Vice President and Regional General Counsel, Asia-Pacific at Yahoo! Inc.
“Eugene, with his legal experience on contracts and deals, new market expansion, international operations, global product compliance, and privacy and intellectual property work, has been an instrumental addition to our team,” said Manish Sood, CEO and Founder of Reltio. “He is delivering continuous improvements to our contract process, making customer relations and contracts more efficient, and making it easier and faster for Global 2000 companies to do business with Reltio.”
“I’m truly excited to be at Reltio because I’ve had a fantastic opportunity to build and scale our legal function,” said Lao. “I also get to work with a world-class team of people helping our Global 2000 customers transform their businesses so they can thrive in the experience economy with a cloud-native responsive data management platform.”
Lao holds a BA in Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a JD and LLM in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law.
Reltio customers include eight of the top 10 global pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, market-leaders in healthcare, financial services, and technology, major travel and hospitality brands, and prestigious international luxury consumer brands in fashion, retail, and personal care.
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