where she leads the solutions PMM, Competitive Intelligence, Technology Partner Marketing, and Analyst Relations teams. Before joining New Relic, she was the Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing at BMC, responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the GenAI, agentic AI, observability AIOps, and Service Management portfolios. Her extensive experience also includes building the marketing function from the ground up as VP of Marketing for several startups, including Era Software (acquired by ServiceNow), and leading high-performing product marketing teams at VMware and Splunk, where she executed numerous successful launches in the observability, DevOps, and networking domains. Stela's marketing leadership is built on a deep technical foundation, and she holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering.
