Leadership
With an average of 10 years experience each in the web application performance management industry, our management team is well-positioned to help Rails developers get quick insights into application performance.
Management Team
Lewis Cirne — CEO and Founder
Lew Cirne is a seasoned entrepreneur, technologist, and enterprise software pioneer who founded Wily Technology in 1998. Lew served as Wily's chief executive officer for the first four years and subsequently as its chief technical officer. He invented its flagship performance management solution, Introscope, and played a key role in Wily's 2006 acquisition by CA, Inc. Most recently Mr. Cirne was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. He holds seven patents, including four related to Wily's core technology. Earlier in his career he held senior engineering positions at Apple and Hummingbird Communications. He holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Mark Sachleben — Chief Operating Officer
Mark Sachleben joins New Relic as Chief Operating Officer following 9 years at Wily Technology. Mark joined Wily as employee number 4 and was the company's senior financial executive from start-up through the company's acquisition by CA. During this time, he helped raise multiple rounds of venture funding, developed the go-to-market model, closed an acquisition made by Wily, and ultimately, helped sell the company to CA. Prior to Wily, Mark spent 10 years as an investment banker, working in the merger and acquisitions group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and at an investment banking boutique in San Francisco. Mark holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB, BS from Dartmouth College.
Jim Gochee — Vice President of Engineering
Jim Gochee comes to New Relic as the Vice President of Engineering from the Wily Technology division of CA, where he was the lead Architect for Introscope, the industry-leading web application performance monitoring solution. Prior to that, he was the CTO for an internet-based trading system for the wholesale food industry. Jim also spent four years at Apple Computer, Inc. and three years at Connectix Corporation working on VirtualPC. He holds a AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.
Bill Lapcevic - Vice President of Business Development
Bill Lapcevic joins New Relic as the Vice President of Business Development. Before New Relic, Bill was Vice President of Alliances at Solidcore, Systems, a leading provider of enterprise-class change control and enforcement technology, where he focused on developing strategic relationships with companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Opsware. Prior to Solidcore, Bill spent nearly seven years as the Director of Business Development at Wily Technology, which he joined as employee number 13. While at Wily, he built partnerships with BEA Systems, IBM, HP, Oracle, and others. Bill holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and a AB from Dartmouth College.
Board
Lew Cirne
Peter Fenton, Benchmark Capital