Software monitoring leader New Relic has officially appointed tech executive Nandini Ramani as Chief Executive Officer and Board member. The executive transition takes effect immediately across global enterprise operations. Furthermore, Ramani succeeds outgoing CEO Ashan Willy. Meanwhile, Willy will remain with the organization as an advisor to the Board. This appointment aligns with rising customer adoption of software platforms at New Relic.
Previously, Ramani served in top leadership roles at Amazon Web Services. During her tenure, she managed core portfolios across observability, search engines, and compliance tools. Additionally, she directed agentic transformation initiatives for these cloud platform services. Throughout her distinguished career, Ramani led major engineering divisions across enterprise software titans. Her career background includes executive engineering roles at X, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems. Consequently, New Relic gains deep infrastructure leadership to accelerate its cloud monitoring software vision.
“New Relic sits at an extraordinary inflection point in enterprise technology with a tremendous market opportunity to capture in its next phase of growth,” said Nandini Ramani, Chief Executive Officer. “As AI transforms application architectures and complexity escalates, engineers need observability tools they can trust implicitly. I am honored to lead this talented team as we expand our AI-powered observability platform and help our customers build with clarity and confidence.”
Expanding Enterprise Scale and Intelligent AI Products
In addition, institutional investment partners expressed strong confidence in her appointment.
“Nandini brings the right combination of technical depth and enterprise leadership to accelerate New Relic’s strategy and leadership in driving the future of intelligent observability,” said Brian Decker, Co-Chief Investment Officer at Francisco Partners. “We are thrilled to partner with her and are confident she will build on the strong foundation the team has created and empower New Relic’s ability to deliver long-term value and mission-critical technologies for customers.”
“Nandini is a transformational leader and an exceptional technologist with a proven track record of delivering innovative, market-leading products and scaling complex engineering organizations,” said Art Heidrich, Partner at TPG. “Her experience leading mission-critical observability and search platforms makes her the ideal person to accelerate New Relic’s product innovation and deepen the company’s enterprise footprint. We are proud to partner with her at this exciting moment for New Relic.”
Meanwhile, New Relic prepares for its next phase of rapid enterprise expansion. The software company seeks to accelerate its core vision of Intelligent Observability Beyond Human Scale. Moreover, the team will host its flagship product conference, New Relic Now, on October 6th. During this event, New Relic will showcase its latest advancements in AI-powered system monitoring. Therefore, developers and engineering leaders will gain exclusive access to the future roadmap for New Relic.
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Source: Businesswire
