Lew Cirne is a Canadian-American Silicon Valley–based technologist and entrepreneur who promotes software analytics technology.
He was responsible for developing Wily Technology's vision of enterprise class application performance management and is credited with bringing it to the Java platform.
[6] In 2008, Cirne began focusing on software as a service (SaaS) while an entrepreneur in residence for Benchmark Capital and founded New Relic.
New Relic's technology monitors Web and mobile applications in real-time that run in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments.
[citation needed] In 2006, Cirne and Wily chairman David Strohm announced a $1 million gift to Dartmouth College.