Ashan Willy

Ashan Willy is New Relic’s Chief Executive Officer, responsible for leading the company into the future in support of its customers, users, and their success. Willy brings a passion for innovation to his role at New Relic, as well as over 25 years of leadership experience in go-to-market, engineering, product management, worldwide strategy and planning across global markets. He has a passion for data and is excited about bringing modern observability to the world, and building trusted relationships with customers as New Relic continues to address their evolving needs.

Willy joined New Relic in 2023, following the successful transformation of its product platform and business model. Willy has spent his entire career in high-tech and has significant experience transforming organizations through data, whether that’s helping organizations protect against increasingly sophisticated threats, enabling more effective ways of work, or helping to better understand and deliver to their customers. Prior to New Relic, Willy spent over seven years at Proofpoint, most recently serving as Chief Executive Officer, where he directed an organization focused on defending customers from advanced threats and compliance risks by protecting their people—and in turn, safeguarding their data, business, and reputation. At Proofpoint, he helped strengthen the company’s reputation as one of the world's most trusted cybersecurity brands and oversaw significant growth.

Previously, Willy was at Polycom for five years where he held a number of roles including SVP, Product Management, Alliances & Worldwide Systems Engineering. Prior to Polycom, he served as VP, Systems Engineers of the Worldwide General Business segment at Juniper Networks. Earlier in his career, Willy spent over fifteen years at Cisco where he helped grow the channel partner base throughout the United States and improved its go-to-market strategy.

Willy holds a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University.