{"id":362636,"date":"2025-10-16T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/?p=362636"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:19:53","slug":"new-relic-names-simon-rizkalla-vice-president-of-customer-advocacy-for-asia-pacific-and-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/new-relic-names-simon-rizkalla-vice-president-of-customer-advocacy-for-asia-pacific-and-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"New Relic Names Simon Rizkalla Vice President of Customer Advocacy for Asia-Pacific and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Proven executive leader and AI-focused technologist to drive continued regional customer success<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Bangalore, India\u00a0\u2013 October 16, 2025 \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0New Relic, the Intelligent Observability company, announced the appointment of Simon Rizkalla as Vice President of Customer Advocacy for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ).\u00a0Rizkalla brings over 25 years of enterprise SaaS, AI, and digital infrastructure experience to the role, having most recently served as co-founder and CEO of HybridAI. Rizkalla has also held senior sales and leadership positions across Asia Pacific at Cisco, Red Hat, and Alcatel-Lucent.<\/p>\n<div>Based in Singapore, Rizkalla will lead Customer Advocacy for the region, partnering closely with customers to accelerate adoption, solve critical business challenges, and enable them to exceed their observability goals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe depth and breadth of experience that Simon holds\u2013particularly within the Asia Pacific observability space\u2013makes him a perfect fit for the role,\u201d\u00a0said <strong>New Relic Senior Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific and Japan Rob Newell.<\/strong> \u201cAsia Pacific is a critical growth region for New Relic. I have no doubt that Simon\u2019s passion for leading high performing teams, coupled with his ethos of making customer success the heart of everything he does, will take our team and valued customers to new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cObservability is far beyond an operational hygiene practice. It\u2019s a strategic capability central to how companies manage risk, ensure reliability, innovate with AI, optimise costs, and comply with regulation,\u201d\u00a0said <strong>New Relic Vice President of Customer Advocacy Asia Pacific and Japan Simon Rizkalla.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cNow is the time for Asia Pacific organisations to embrace observability. I couldn\u2019t be more excited to join the team and help customers realise what they can achieve with our platform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proven executive leader and AI-focused technologist to drive continued regional customer success Bangalore, India\u00a0\u2013 October 16, 2025 \u2014\u00a0New Relic, the Intelligent Observability company, announced the appointment of Simon Rizkalla as Vice President of Customer Advocacy for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ).\u00a0Rizkalla brings over 25 years of enterprise SaaS, AI, and digital infrastructure experience to the role, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14083],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology-industry-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technologyforyou.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}