Category Archives: CEO appointment

New Relic is bringing in a new CEO as founder Lew Cirne moves to executive chairman role

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At the market close this afternoon ahead of its earnings report, New Relic, an applications performance monitoring company, announced that founder Lew Cirne would be stepping down as CEO and moving into the executive chairman role. At the same time, the company announced that Bill Staples, a software industry vet, would be taking over as […] Continue reading New Relic is bringing in a new CEO as founder Lew Cirne moves to executive chairman role→

Busy day at VMware ended yesterday with Ragurham as CEO and COO Poonen exiting

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They say for every door that opens another closes and the executive shuffle at VMware is certainly proving that old chestnut true. Four months after Pat Gelsinger stepped down as CEO to return to run Intel, the virtual machine pioneer announced yesterday that long-time exec Raghu Raghuram was taking over that role. That set in […] Continue reading Busy day at VMware ended yesterday with Ragurham as CEO and COO Poonen exiting→