Bill Staples

Bill Staples is New Relic’s President and Chief Product Officer, responsible for driving the company’s market-leading platform strategy. In addition to leading New Relic’s product management, engineering, and design functions, he oversees strategy, and corporate development, marketing and technical support. Staples is an execution-focused product and engineering leader who loves to build and scale cloud-based businesses. Previously Staples was at Adobe, where he led the 1,500+ employee global engineering team behind Adobe’s market-leading Experience Cloud. Prior to Adobe, Staples spent 17 years at Microsoft, including his last role as Vice President of Microsoft’s Application platform. At both Microsoft and Adobe, he successfully led transformative product, culture and technical innovation agendas, helping both companies expand multi-billion dollar cloud portfolios with developers and IT as the customer.