Nayak™'s Vision is to empower organizations' with the ability to build authentic relationships with buyers using relationship intelligence to accelerate revenue growth and increase efficiency.
Using generative AI and seamless integration with online, mobile and wearable communication technologies, Nayak™ will provide real-time relationship guidance that feels natural and empowering. Our platform helps professionals read subtle social cues, understand diverse communication styles, and build genuine rapport in any setting.
We envision a future where relationship intelligence is as fundamental to professional success as technical skills - where every interaction is an opportunity to create lasting, meaningful connections that drive business forward.








Jean Templin
Founder & CEO
Product and GTM leader with 20+ years of scaling and growing businesses at Twilio, AnchorFree, Avast, and Sticky.ai. Two-time founder and 1st product hire specializing in bringing innovative technologies to difficult problems including pioneering the use of biometrics to measure marketing impact. After thousands of sales calls, Jean is focused on making sales meetings better for everyone with real time analysis and coaching.

Heather Hansma
COO
Deep experience in scaling customer-centric products & high-growth operations (product management, sales, support, business operations, strategy, and consulting) across Medallia, Twilio, and Wells Fargo. Heather is a relentless problem solver who has tackled scaling Twilio’s GTM from $1.8B ARR to $2.8B ARR in a year to delivering same day adoption of Medallia's newly launched GenAI features. Heather likes to bring social science to business problems with a degree in economics from Harvard College and a MBA from Harvard Business School. She is an avid user of Nayak.

Christine Templin
CTO
Engineering and Technology leader with experience at Apple, Twitter, and TextNow, specializing in building and scaling real-time systems to solve critical challenges in early growth stages. Christine has led teams in all parts of the technology stack from engineering (back and front end), infrastructure, platform, dev ops, and IT and has rapidly scaled those functions from 0 to enterprise. Christine has had too many bad buying experiences to count, and she is on a mission to make buying better for all with Nayak.

Dr Aron Gerhart
Research Lead/PHD Psychological Science Architect
Psychometrician and Director of Nayak’s Research Committee, specializing in developing and validating assessments in emotional intelligence and social cognition, with a focus on psychometrics and scalable measurement tooling.
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