About Relevanz
The GRC market is organised around how vendors sell, not how practitioners decide. We're rebuilding it around the buyer journey.
Our mission
Practitioners are interrupted. Vendors are exhausted. The conversation has fragmented across closed peer chats and sponsored content. The market needs a neutral place where serious people can do serious work. Relevanz is that place.
Relevanz is built around how GRC professionals actually work – where visibility is earned through relevance, and commercial conversations begin only when practitioners choose to start them.
Why we built this
Relevanz was started by people who have spent years working inside the GRC community – as advisers, as practitioners, and on the commercial side, helping vendors reach this audience. We have sat on many sides of the table.
That experience made one thing impossible to ignore: the go-to-market approach in this market is fundamentally broken. Practitioners are interrupted by cold outreach that ignores what they actually do. Vendors burn budget on tactics that no serious GRC professional respects. Good ideas get drowned out by whoever shouts loudest or spends most.
We are not building this from the outside looking in. We are building it because we have lived the gaps, watched the flaws compound year after year, and concluded the market needs a different structure – not another channel layered on top of the old one.
The design of Relevanz was shaped by the people it is built for. Practitioners told us what makes them distrust vendor-led environments and what would make them trust a new one. Vendors told us what they actually need from market presence and why the current model is failing them. Consultants and advisers told us what a genuinely useful professional space would look like compared to the generic networks they currently settle for. Their input did not just inform the product – it determined the non-negotiables. The things that will never change regardless of commercial pressure.
Relevanz is the place we wished existed when we were doing the work ourselves.
— The Relevanz founding team
Leadership
Our founding leadership team.
Founder & CEO
LinkedIn– Giles Newman's LinkedIn profileA veteran of the GRC sector, Giles has supported and lead vendor sales teams throughout his career. Relevanz is his answer to the changed commercial world in which we all operate today.
Founding Technical Director
LinkedIn– Shannon Alley's LinkedIn profileShannon leads technology and AI development at Relevanz. She has spent years working in the governance, risk and compliance space and now builds the platform behind the community.
Founding Marketing Director
LinkedIn– Helen Fetherston's LinkedIn profileHelen created the Relevanz brand and leads its go to market strategy. She brings 15 years experience in marketing and comms from an array of sectors including charity, defence and security and GRC.
Founding Commercial Director
LinkedIn– Nia Milenova's LinkedIn profileNia leads all commercial activity at Relevanz. She brings 20 years experience with tech and GRC brands, working closely with vendors to maximise their growth and presence on the platform.
Operating principles
Everything we build starts from how practitioners research and decide – not from how vendors sell.
Attention is earned through useful contribution. No sponsored ranking and no advertising, ever.
Moderation, verification and topic structure are owned by Relevanz, not by any vendor or sponsor.
Practitioners, vendors, advisers, regulators, educators and academics all take part on shared terms.
Pre-launch
Register your interest and we will be in touch ahead of launch.
