Seema Kumar Joins New Relic as Chief Marketing Officer

Experienced SaaS marketer to help drive company’s next phase of growth

San Francisco - May 14, 2020

New Relic, Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), the industry’s largest and most comprehensive cloud-based observability platform built to help customers create more perfect software, today announced the appointment of Seema Kumar as Chief Marketing Officer. Kumar is an accomplished go-to-market leader with experience driving success for high-growth SaaS companies, including Salesforce and ServiceChannel. Reporting to President and Chief Operating Officer Michael Christenson, Kumar will be responsible for the company’s global marketing strategy and operations.

“I’m pleased to welcome Seema to New Relic’s executive team,” said Christenson. “Her experience leading marketing organizations at top SaaS companies will be invaluable for New Relic as we drive our next phase of growth.”

“New Relic has built an incredible brand, supported by a loyal community of customers,” said Kumar. “I look forward to joining the company and supporting its noble mission of creating more perfect software.”

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking” statements, as that term is defined under the federal securities laws, including but not limited to statements regarding the hire of Seema Kumar and her ability to help drive New Relic’s next phase of growth. The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements are based on New Relic’s current assumptions, expectations, and beliefs and are subject to substantial risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and changes in circumstances that may cause New Relic’s actual results, performance, or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statement. Further information on factors that could affect New Relic’s financial and other results and the forward-looking statements in this press release is included in the filings New Relic makes with the SEC from time to time, including in New Relic’s most recent Form 10-Q, particularly under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Copies of these documents may be obtained by visiting New Relic’s Investor Relations website at http://ir.newrelic.com or the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. New Relic assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

About New Relic

As a leader in observability, New Relic empowers engineers with a data-driven approach to planning, building, deploying, and running great software. New Relic delivers the only unified data platform that empowers engineers to get all telemetry—metrics, events, logs, and traces—paired with powerful full stack analysis tools to help engineers do their best work with data, not opinions. Delivered through the industry’s first usage-based consumption pricing that’s intuitive and predictable, New Relic gives engineers more value for the money by helping improve planning cycle times, change failure rates, release frequency, and mean time to resolution. This helps the world’s leading brands including adidas Runtastic, American Red Cross, Australia Post, Banco Inter, Chegg, GoTo Group, Ryanair, Sainsbury’s, Signify Health, TopGolf, and World Fuel Services (WFS) improve uptime, reliability, and operational efficiency to deliver exceptional customer experiences that fuel innovation and growth. www.newrelic.com.

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