Management Team
With years of expertise in both SaaS and application performance management, our management team brings an unrivaled depth of knowledge and experience to New Relic. Together, they are working toward the goal of creating the only tool IT teams need to ensure the health and availability of their application environment.
Lewis Cirne — CEO and Founder
Lew Cirne is a seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and enterprise software pioneer who founded Wily Technology in 1998. He invented Wily's flagship performance management solution, Introscope, and played a key role in Wily’s 2006 acquisition by CA, Inc. Lew holds seven patents, including four related to Wily’s core technology. Earlier in his career he held senior engineering positions at Apple and Hummingbird Communications. He holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. Follow Lew on Twitter (@sweetlew) and check out his blog.
Chris Cook — President and Chief Operating Officer
Chris Cook was corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA Technologies' Service Assurance business, where he was responsible for all aspects of the business and P&L on a worldwide basis. Previously, Chris was senior vice president of worldwide field operations at Wily Technology where he was responsible for leading CA Wily's sales, professional services, support, business development and education organizations. Chris holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mark Sachleben — Chief Financial Officer
Mark Sachleben joins New Relic following 9 years at Wily Technology where he was the company’s senior financial executive from start-up through the company’s acquisition by CA. Prior to Wily, Mark spent 10 years as an investment banker, working in the merger and acquisitions group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and at an investment banking boutique in San Francisco. Mark holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB, BS from Dartmouth College.
Jim Gochee — Senior Vice President of Product
Jim Gochee comes to New Relic as the Senior Vice President of Product from the Wily Technology division of CA, where he was the Lead Architect for Introscope, the industry-leading web application performance monitoring solution. Prior to that, he was the CTO for an internet-based trading system for the wholesale food industry. Jim also spent four years at Apple Computer, Inc. and three years at Connectix Corporation working on VirtualPC. He holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Bjorn Freeman-Benson — Vice President of Engineering
Bjorn Freeman-Benson has had an interesting career in software tools, most recently with the Eclipse Foundation, supporting the leading open source Java IDE. Prior, he ran engineering for a reconfigurable hardware startup. Earlier in his career Bjorn held senior engineering positions at Amazon.com, Rational, and OTI. Bjorn holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Bill Lapcevic — Vice President of Business Development
Before New Relic, Bill was Vice President of Alliances at Solidcore Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class change control and enforcement technology. Earlier, Bill spent nearly seven years as the Director of Business Development at Wily Technology, which he joined as employee number 13. While at Wily, he built partnerships with BEA Systems, IBM, HP, Oracle, and others. Bill holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and an AB from Dartmouth College.
Matt Cooley — Vice President of Sales
Matt came to New Relic from Citrix Online, a leader in web-based remote access, support and collaboration. Matt spent almost seven years helping build a sales organization at Citrix Online focused on direct sales of software as a service (SaaS) offerings that include GotoMeeting, GotoMyPC and GotoAssist. Matt holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of San Diego.
Patrick Moran — Vice President of Marketing
Before New Relic, Patrick was Chief Marketing Officer of Fuze Box, a leading SaaS provider of mobile and web collaboration solutions, where he focused on customer acquisition and product strategy. Earlier, Patrick served in marketing leadership roles at various SaaS companies including social enterprise application company Mzinga, as well as Cisco, WebEx and Intranets.com. Early in his career, Patrick co-founded Essential.com, a leading online communications and energy marketplace.
Board
Peter Fenton (Chairman), Benchmark Capital
Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners. Prior to joining the venture capital community, he was an early employee at Virage, a multimedia information retrieval company that went public on the NASDAQ in 2000. Peter also worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco. Current Investments: EngineYard, Lithium, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, Terracotta, Twitter, Yelp, Zendesk and Zuora
Michael Christenson, Allen & Company
Michael Christenson has been a Managing Director at Allen & Company, a New York investment bank, since June 2010. From April 2006 to May 2010, Mr. Christenson served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of CA, Inc., an IT management software and solutions company. From February 2005 to April 2006, Mr. Christenson served as CA, Inc.’s Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Prior to joining CA, Inc., Mr. Christenson held a number of leadership positions at Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., from 1987 to 2004. Christenson was an investment banker with Citigroup and Salomon Brothers. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of LogMeIn.
Brian Melton, Tenaya Capital
Brian Melton is a Managing Director of Tenaya Capital. He initially joined the predecessor to Tenaya (Lehman Brothers Venture Partners) in 2000, and co-founded Tenaya in 2009. Previously, Brian was a member of Lehman Brothers’ Merchant Banking Group, where he worked in the fund’s Hong Kong and New York offices. Prior to joining the Merchant Banking Group, he was a member of Lehman Brothers’ Financial Sponsors Group. Current investments: Active-Semiconductor, Fortémedia, Lithium, RightScale, Ubicom, VeriSilicon, Zuora.
Dan Scholnick, Trinity Ventures
Dan joined Trinity Ventures in 2007 with significant experience in mobile and Internet applications as well as enterprise and infrastructure software. Most recently, Dan founded a venture backed mobile application startup. Dan also worked for SVB Capital supporting the software and services practice for the firm’s $56 million equity fund. Dan started his career as an early employee at Wily Technology, an application performance management company acquired by CA. As the company’s first technical hire, he collaborated with the founder to develop the first version of Wily’s flagship product. During his tenure at Wily, Dan also worked in the sales organization on pre‐ and post‐sales engagements with many of Wily’s Fortune 500 clients. Current investments: Aryaka Networks, BillShrink, Blue Stripe Software, CrowdFlower (Dolores Labs), Loggly, RiverMuse.
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