# Michael Frendo

> Michael Frendo is chief Technology Officer. New Relic MCP Server on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-11-03

Chief Technology Officer.

Michael 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.

## What Michael 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. Chief Technology Officer, researched 2026-11-03.

## Works with

- [Brian Emerson](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/brian-emerson/), Chief Product Officer
- [Lew Cirne](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/lew-cirne/), Founder
- [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 Michael Frendo?

Michael 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.

### What does New Relic make?

Anchor 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.

### Who has invested in New Relic?

The sources our research read name Francisco Partners and TPG.

### How are Michael'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/

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