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  "markdown": "Founder.\n\nLew Cirne founded New Relic in 2008 and was its CEO until July 2021, when the company promoted Bill Staples to CEO and Cirne became Executive Chairman of the Board. The 2021 announcement calls him founder and CEO and says he would continue as inventor, technologist and strategist.\n\n## What Lew builds\n\n- [New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.md), graded C, 61/100, in Observability \u0026 incidents. New Relic's hosted MCP server at mcp.newrelic.com gives AI agents read access to an account's entities, NRQL data, alerts, issues, logs, errors, traces and deployments, with OAuth or a user API key, on top of the NerdGraph API. Founder, researched 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Brian Emerson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-emerson/), Chief Product Officer\n- [Michael Frendo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-frendo/), Chief Technology Officer\n- [Nandini Ramani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nandini-ramani/), Chief Executive Officer\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Francisco Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/francisco-partners/)\n- [TPG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tpg/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Lew Cirne?\n\nLew Cirne founded New Relic in 2008 and was its CEO until July 2021, when the company promoted Bill Staples to CEO and Cirne became Executive Chairman of the Board. The 2021 announcement calls him founder and CEO and says he would continue as inventor, technologist and strategist.\n\n### What does New Relic make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists New Relic MCP Server from New Relic. New Relic's hosted MCP server at mcp.newrelic.com gives AI agents read access to an account's entities, NRQL data, alerts, issues, logs, errors, traces and deployments, with OAuth or a user API key, on top of the NerdGraph API.\n\n### Who has invested in New Relic?\n\nThe sources our research read name Francisco Partners and TPG.\n\n### How are Lew's tools graded?\n\nNew Relic MCP Server is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://newrelic.com/about/leadership\n- https://newrelic.com/press-release/20261001\n- https://newrelic.com/press-release/20210513\n- https://newrelic.com/press-release/20231108\n- https://newrelic.com/about/newsroom\n- https://newrelic.com/about\n- https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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