New Relic Announces Appointment of Anne DelSanto & David Henshall to Its Board of Directors; Hope Cochran Named Chair of the ...
August 20 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New Relic, Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), the observability platform
company, today announced the appointment of enterprise technology
executive Anne DelSanto and Citrix President and CEO David Henshall
to its board of directors. In addition, current director Hope
Cochran was named chair, as Peter Fenton stepped down after over 12
years of service.
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“Both Anne and David bring exceptional experience leading cloud
companies through transformations, which is invaluable as New Relic
continues to drive our long-term growth strategy,” said New Relic
CEO and Founder Lew Cirne. “Hope has been an outstanding member of
our board for the past two years, and we’re honored to have her
serve as our new chair. We are grateful to outgoing chair Peter
Fenton for his contributions to New Relic since the company’s
founding over 12 years ago -- an incredible run.”
“New Relic has entered a new chapter with its recent set of
exciting observability platform announcements,” said Hope Cochran.
“I welcome Anne and David to our board, and look forward to working
together and driving the company’s growth strategy.”
“New Relic is empowering the world’s developers to build more
perfect software,” said Anne DelSanto. “I am excited to join its
board and help the company advance this important mission.”
“New Relic is reinventing an entire category, helping software
engineers better observe and optimize the end-to-end performance of
their digital systems,” said David Henshall. “I look forward to
joining the board to help the team lead the company’s ongoing
transformation and acceleration into its next phase of growth.”
Hope Cochran has served as a member of New Relic’s board since
May 2018. Cochran is currently a managing director at Madrona
Venture Group, where she has served as a venture partner since
January 2017. Previously, she served as the chief financial officer
of the gaming company King Digital Entertainment plc, which was
acquired by Activision Blizzard, Inc. She served as the chief
financial officer of Clearwire Corporation, a telecommunications
operator, acquired by Sprint, Inc. She held several roles in the
software industry, including at PeopleSoft, Inc., Evant Inc. and
SkillsVillage Inc., a human resources software company that she
founded. Cochran received a B.A. in Economics and Music from
Stanford University. She serves on the board of directors of
Hasbro, Inc. and MongoDB, Inc.
Anne DelSanto is a limited partner at Operator Collective and
Stage 2 Capital venture funds, and a veteran technology executive
with more than three decades of experience driving organizations
towards exponential growth. As EVP and GM of Salesforce Platform,
she led the company’s industry-leading platform services including
low-code lightning builders, Heroku, IoT and AppExchange, the
number one business app marketplace. Prior to Salesforce, DelSanto
served as group vice president of sales engineering at Oracle. She
began her career as an account systems engineer with IBM, where she
spent several years building solutions for the healthcare market.
She serves on the board at Juniper Networks. DelSanto graduated
from St. John's University with a B.S. in Mathematics with a
concentration in Computer Science and earned an M.S. in
Administrative Studies from Boston College.
David Henshall is president & chief executive officer at
Citrix. He brings over 25 years of technology management
experience, including serving as chief operating officer and chief
financial officer of Citrix, overseeing the company’s worldwide
finance, operations and administration organizations. Prior to
joining Citrix, he served as chief financial officer of Rational
Software Corporation, a software company acquired by IBM
Corporation, and also held various finance positions at Cypress
Semiconductor and Samsung. He serves as a member of the board of
directors at Citrix and LogMeIn. Henshall holds a B.S. in Business
Administration from University of Arizona and a M.B.A. from Santa
Clara University.
Read an interview with Hope Cochran on New Relic’s blog.
About New Relic
The world’s best engineering teams rely on New Relic to
visualize, analyze and troubleshoot their software. New Relic One
is the most powerful cloud-based observability platform built to
help companies create more perfect software. Learn why customers
trust New Relic for improved uptime and performance, greater scale
and efficiency, and accelerated time to market at newrelic.com.
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