Lew Cirne

Lew Cirne is Founder and CEO of New Relic, the leading provider of application performance tools for Rails. Lew is a seasoned entrepreneur and 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 application performance management solution, Introscope, and played a key role in Wily’s 2006 acquisition by CA, Inc. He holds seven patents related to application performance. Earlier in his career he held senior engineering positions at Apple and Hummingbird Communications. He holds an AB in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.