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Relativity Promotes CPO Chris Brown to President to Advance AI Platform

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Relativity, the Chicago-based e-discovery and legal data intelligence company, has promoted Chief Product Officer Chris Brown to President, effective July 13, 2026. Brown will retain his product responsibilities while taking on expanded executive duties, with a mandate to accelerate development and adoption of Relativity's artificial intelligence platform. CEO Phil Saunders characterized the move as shifting the company into "high gear" after years of building the underlying data infrastructure and agentic capabilities needed to position the platform as a "system of action" for legal teams.

The promotion follows Relativity's June 2026 product launches at RelFest London, including aiR Assist and custom analysis features within aiR for Review. These tools enable legal teams to query data in plain language and deploy AI-driven review analyses through no-code prompts. Brown joined Relativity as CPO in 2018.

For legal technology practitioners, this signals a strategic bet by a major e-discovery player that conversational AI and automated legal workflows will define competitive advantage in the near term. The elevation of a product leader specifically to drive AI adoption reflects broader industry pressure to move beyond traditional data management toward agentic systems that legal teams can engage directly. Attorneys should monitor whether this organizational shift translates into meaningful product differentiation as competitors race to embed similar capabilities into their platforms.

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