Gary Wong

Head of Finance and Operations

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Financial exec with broad experience in all aspects of accounting, auditing and financial management. Direct experience with merger and acquisitions and complicated accounting transactions. Interested in early-stage startups as well as companies “on the bubble.” Experienced in preparing company through the IPO process (Simplex Inc.) or getting company ready for IPO (Reltio Inc.) Awards: • Selected three times as MVP for the year (2001 by Simplex’s sales team, 2010 by Coverity’s sales team and 2017 by Reltio's sales team) Specialties: Contract negotiation, software revenue recognition issues, mergers and acquisition.

Experience

  • Head of Finance and Operations at Relai Inc.
    Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

    Today, agents generate an endless stream of failures, feedback, traces, and successful outcomes. Yet most of that experience is discarded. Improvements are applied manually, regressions reappear, and learning remains fragmented across prompts, memory systems, benchmarks, and coding agents. We believe a new layer is missing. A learning infrastructure that transforms experience into durable improvement. One that turns failures into replayable learning environments. One that identifies where the agent broke across prompts, tools, memory, workflows, and models. One that continuously optimizes the entire agent stack while preserving what already works. That is the problem RELAI exists to solve. We are building the continual learning engine for AI agents: a system that converts experience into continuous, regression-aware improvement. This mission sits at the intersection of frontier AI research and decades of experience building reliable systems. It requires breakthroughs in continual learning, optimization, evaluation, and agent architectures. It requires exceptional engineering. And it requires a team obsessed with advancing the state of the art.

  • Head of Finance and Operations at Telmai
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    We’re a dynamic and fast-growing data observability company with a clear mission: enhancing data reliability. At Telmai, we are committed to using innovation to improve data reliability for enterprises. We have pioneered the world's most comprehensive data observability platform that leverages AI to ensure high-quality data - across the entire data pipeline, be it legacy on-premise systems, cloud storages, or event streaming systems.

  • Corporate Controller at ClosedLoop.ai
    Dec 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    ClosedLoop.ai is healthcare’s data science platform. We make it easy for healthcare organizations to use AI to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Purpose-built and dedicated to healthcare, ClosedLoop combines an intuitive end-to-end machine learning platform with a comprehensive library of healthcare-specific features and model templates. Customers use ClosedLoop’s Explainable AI to drive clinical excellence, operational efficiency, value-based contracts, and enhanced revenue.

  • VP and Senior Controller at Reltio
    Apr 2016 - Oct 2021 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    - Relio is an award-winning SaaS company based in Silicon Valley that is at the heart of Digital Transformation for innovative Global 2000 companies. Reltio’s goal is to provide the mission-critical data foundation that businesses need to win in the experience economy. Reltio provides an agile, scalable, and smart Master Data Management (MDM) SaaS platform built on a cloud-native, big data architecture with graph technology and machine learning, called Reltio Cloud.. - Responsible for all finance and accounting function of Reltio, implementing processes and creating infrastructure to support the rapid growth of the company. Other area of responsibilities include order review and other operational and cost optimization projects.

  • Corporate Controller at Host Analytics Inc
    Feb 2015 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Host Analytics provides enterprise performance management software delivered as software as a service (SaaS). The Company's software helps finance executives develop strategies from processes such as planning and budgeting, scorecarding, and financial consolidation and reporting. • Manage and responsible for the full accounting function, including SaaS revenue recognition and tracking, financial reporting, consolidations, etc. Manage a team of five and transitioning to a new Big 4 audit firm.