Relativity Names LinkedIn's Mike Gamson as New CEO, Sieja to Executive Chairman

Mike Gamson, Relativity CEO (left) and Andrew Sieja, Relativity founder and executive chairman (Courtesy photo)

In 2001, at 24 years old, Andrew Sieja started his own consultancy. In 2007, that consultancy turned into a software company, then known as kCura, that developed the now-ubiquitous Relativity e-discovery platform. And now for the first time, one rebrand and massive growth later, Sieja will be turning over the company's CEO role to someone else.

Relativity announced on June 26 that LinkedIn veteran Mike Gamson has been named Relativity's new chief executive officer, effective July 1. Gamson comes to the CEO role after 11 years at the social media giant, most recently as LinkedIn's senior vice president of global solutions for the past eight years. Gamson also has been a member of Relativity's advisory board for the past two years.

That is not to say that Sieja is going away, however. He will now be the executive chairman of the company's board of directors, taking on a role where he said, “I can continue to help and be involved in a variety of different ways.” He added he will be working “more deeply with our product and technical teams, where my expertise is the deepest.”