# Lew Cirne (slim)

> Lew Cirne is founder. New Relic MCP Server on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder.

Lew 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.

## What Lew builds

- [New Relic MCP Server](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/new-relic.md), graded C, 61/100, in Observability & 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.

## Works with

- [Brian Emerson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-emerson/), Chief Product Officer
- [Michael Frendo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/michael-frendo/), Chief Technology Officer
- [Nandini Ramani](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/nandini-ramani/), Chief Executive Officer

## Backed by

- [Francisco Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/francisco-partners/)
- [TPG](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/tpg/)

## Questions

### Who is Lew Cirne?

Lew 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.

### What does New Relic make?

Anchor Terminal lists New Relic MCP Server from New Relic.

### Who has invested in New Relic?

The sources our research read name Francisco Partners and TPG.

### How are Lew's tools graded?

New Relic MCP Server is graded C, 61 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://newrelic.com/about/leadership
- https://newrelic.com/press-release/20261001
- https://newrelic.com/press-release/20210513
- https://newrelic.com/press-release/20231108
- https://newrelic.com/about/newsroom
- https://newrelic.com/about
- https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/agentic-ai/mcp/tool-reference/

These 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.