Bill Staples to Join New Relic as Chief Product Officer
January 16 2020 - 6:55AM
Business Wire
Experienced executive from Adobe and Microsoft
to lead product strategy and development
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 that Bill
Staples will join New Relic as chief product officer on February
14, 2020. Reporting directly to CEO and Founder Lew Cirne, Staples
will be responsible for driving the company’s market-leading
platform strategy and will lead the Product Management, Engineering
and Design functions.
Staples has spent his career building and scaling cloud-based
businesses. He joins New Relic from Adobe, where he led the 1,500+
employee global engineering team behind Adobe’s market-leading
Experience Cloud. Previously, he spent 17 years at Microsoft in a
number of product leadership roles. Most recently at Microsoft, he
was corporate vice president for the Azure Application Platform,
leading design, product management and engineering. At both
Microsoft and Adobe, he successfully led transformative product,
engineering culture and technical innovation agendas, helping both
companies embrace cloud-first principles to accelerate business
growth.
Comments on the News:
“Bill is an extraordinary leader with a proven track record of
leading successful product organizations that deliver at cloud
scale,” said Cirne. “He shares our core values, commitment to
innovation and our pursuit of creating products that customers
love.”
“As a long-time New Relic customer and partner, I have long
admired the impact that New Relic products have on customers’
lives, and I look forward to working with New Relic’s global
product team to continue delivering the incredible platform that
delights New Relic’s customers every day,” said Staples. “As a
self-proclaimed ‘data nerd’, I am honored to join New Relic’s
mission of helping the world create 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 hiring of Bill Staples,
his expected start date, reporting structure and anticipated
contributions to New Relic’s product strategy and development. 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
New Relic is the industry’s largest and most comprehensive
cloud-based observability platform built to help customers create
more perfect software. The world’s best software and DevOps teams
rely on New Relic to move faster, make better decisions and create
best-in-class digital experiences. If you run software, you need to
run New Relic. Learn why more than 50% of the Fortune 100 trust New
Relic to make the world’s software run at newrelic.com.
New Relic is a registered trademark of New Relic, Inc.
All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their
registered owners.
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