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  "markdown": "Chief Technology Officer.\n\nMichael Frendo is New Relic's Chief Technology Officer, bridging product vision with technical execution. He was previously CTO, Engineering at Proofpoint and led global teams at Cisco, Polycom and Juniper.\n\n## What Michael 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. Chief Technology Officer, researched 2026-11-03.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Brian Emerson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-emerson/), Chief Product Officer\n- [Lew Cirne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lew-cirne/), Founder\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 Michael Frendo?\n\nMichael Frendo is New Relic's Chief Technology Officer, bridging product vision with technical execution. He was previously CTO, Engineering at Proofpoint and led global teams at Cisco, Polycom and Juniper.\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 Michael'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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