About
Mr. Willy has served as CEO of New Relic, a software-analytics SaaS company, since 2023. He previously spent seven years at Proofpoint, including as CEO and earlier as Executive Vice President and General Manager of its Security Product and Services Group.
His broader experience spans sales, channel development, engineering, product management, customer success and worldwide go-to-market strategy, with earlier roles at Polycom, Juniper Networks and WebEx (Cisco Systems).
Roles
Sabre Corp.
Independent Director · Current role
2025–present
New Relic, Inc.
CEO
2023 - Present
Proofpoint, Inc.
CEO
2022 - 2023
Proofpoint, Inc.
Executive Vice President, General Manager, Security Product and Services Group
2020 - 2022
Proofpoint, Inc.
Senior Vice President, Global Customer Success and Worldwide Systems Engineering
2016 - 2020
Polycom
Senior Vice President, Product Management, Alliances and Worldwide Systems Engineering
2013 - 2016
Juniper Networks
Vice President, Systems Engineers, Worldwide General Business
2011 - 2012
WebEx (Cisco Systems)
Various roles
1996 - 2011
Director Compensation
FY 2025Fees earned or paid in cash
$75,852
Stock awards
$122,857
FormRestricted stock units
Total compensation
$198,709
Also at Sabre Corp.
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