{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-29/new-relic-steve-lucas-board-chair","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-29/new-relic-steve-lucas-board-chair.md","title":"New Relic Names Boomi CEO Steve Lucas Board Chair","headline":"New Relic Appoints Boomi Chairman and CEO Steve Lucas as Board Chair","description":"New Relic appointed Boomi chairman and CEO Steve Lucas as chair of its board, adding a leader who oversaw Adobe's $4.75 billion acquisition of Marketo.","section":"Leadership","published_at":"2026-10-29T16:38:54+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-29T16:38:54+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Steve Lucas, chairman and CEO of Boomi, was appointed chair of New Relic's board of directors.","Lucas will keep his roles at Boomi while chairing the New Relic board.","As Marketo CEO, Lucas led a transformation that ended in Adobe's $4.75 billion acquisition of the company.","New Relic CEO Nandini Ramani took the role in October 2026, succeeding Ashan Willy."],"companies":[{"name":"New Relic","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0002qpf/new-relic","website":"http://newrelic.com"},{"name":"Boomi","is_primary":false,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00000cp/boomi","website":"https://boomi.com"}],"source":{"publisher":"citybiz","title":"New Relic Appoints Boomi CEO Steve Lucas Chairman of the Board","url":"https://www.citybiz.co/article/926571/new-relic-appoints-boomi-ceo-steve-lucas-chairman-of-the-board/"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Leadership","New Relic","Boomi"],"body_markdown":"New Relic appointed Steve Lucas, chairman and CEO of Boomi, as chair of its board of directors, the company said in a [citybiz](https://www.citybiz.co/article/926571/new-relic-appoints-boomi-ceo-steve-lucas-chairman-of-the-board/) report. Lucas will continue as chairman and CEO of [Boomi](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/00000cp/boomi), where he oversees corporate strategy, operations and global business growth.\n\n## Steve Lucas Takes the New Relic Board Chair\n\nLucas brings nearly three decades of enterprise software leadership experience to [New Relic](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0002qpf/new-relic), an observability platform provider. Before joining Boomi, he served as CEO of iCIMS and Marketo and held senior leadership positions at SAP, Salesforce, Adobe and Business Objects.\n\nDuring his tenure as CEO of Marketo, Lucas led a business transformation that culminated in Adobe's $4.75 billion acquisition of the marketing software company. At iCIMS, he expanded the company's product portfolio and customer reach, with its technology ultimately serving 40% of Fortune 100 companies. Lucas also brings corporate governance experience from board positions at Drift, iCIMS, TiVo/Rovi, SendGrid, Certinia and Couchbase.\n\n\"We are thrilled to welcome Steve as Chair of our Board of Directors,\" said Nandini Ramani, CEO of New Relic. \"AI has rapidly reshaped enterprise technology, making intelligent observability across increasingly complex systems more important than ever. Steve's proven track record of establishing and scaling category-defining enterprise platforms will be a tremendous asset as we execute on our long-term vision.\"\n\n\"I am honored to chair the New Relic Board at a pivotal moment in the industry,\" Lucas said. \"Nandini and the leadership team have a clear vision for how New Relic can help enterprises thrive in the AI era.\"\n\nBoomi acquired Elementary Data, a data observability and governance provider, to expand its Enterprise Platform for AI and agentic workflows, Pulse 2.0 reported on October 28, 2026.\n\n## New Relic's Scale and Funding Record\n\nAccording to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), New Relic was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco. The same records list eight funding rounds, including a $100 million private equity round in April 2014 led by BlackRock and an $80 million private equity round in February 2013 led by Insight Partners, for total funding of $214.5 million.\n\n## Nandini Ramani's CEO Appointment and AI Launches\n\nNew Relic appointed Nandini Ramani as CEO, effective immediately, succeeding Ashan Willy, FinancialContent Business Page reported in October 2026. Ramani came from AWS, where she led observability, search and compliance.\n\nNew Relic launched AI Evaluation, a feature in its AI Observability platform that uses an LLM-as-a-judge to score issues such as hallucinations and data leaks, SecurityBrief Australia reported on October 6, 2026. On October 28, 2026, FinancialContent Business Page reported that New Relic announced GitHub Copilot integrations including Change Tracking, in public preview, and Autopilot and Preflight, both generally available.\n\n## New Relic's Tokyo Data Center Plans\n\nNew Relic announced plans to launch its first data center in Japan, located in Tokyo, by July 2026, to enhance local data residency, compliance and operational performance for Japanese customers, according to akta.pro company records.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}