Hein Hellemons

Chief Revenue Officer New Relic

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Hein Hellemons is Chief Revenue Officer of New Relic, the observability software company, appointed in July 2026 to oversee its worldwide revenue and global go-to-market strategy across enterprise, commercial, and partner channels. He arrived with more than twenty-five years spent building and scaling global sales organizations, most of the last decade of it in cybersecurity: he was Chief Revenue Officer of Darktrace immediately before New Relic, Chief Revenue Officer of KnowBe4 from 2023, and President and Chief Revenue Officer of SecurityScorecard before that. Earlier he held senior leadership positions at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and VMware.

Career Highlights

• Named Chief Revenue Officer of New Relic on July 13, 2026, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Ashan Willy and leading global sales, commercial segments, and the partner channel organization.
• Served as Chief Revenue Officer of Darktrace, the AI-powered cybersecurity company, the role he held immediately before joining New Relic.
• Appointed Chief Revenue Officer of KnowBe4 in August 2023, joining the security awareness training company as it scaled past 60,000 customer organizations.
• Was President and Chief Revenue Officer of SecurityScorecard, where, per KnowBe4’s announcement of his hire, he led all revenue resources worldwide across every market segment.
• Held senior leadership positions at Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and VMware earlier in his career, working with enterprise customers on digital transformation and building international go-to-market teams.

Professional Journey

Hellemons built the first part of his career inside large enterprise technology vendors, holding senior leadership positions at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and VMware. Neither of the company announcements that describe this period names the specific titles he held, and no other primary source establishes them, so they are recorded here only as the senior leadership roles the companies themselves describe.

He then moved into cybersecurity revenue leadership. At SecurityScorecard he served as President and Chief Revenue Officer with responsibility for worldwide revenue. In August 2023 KnowBe4 announced him as its new Chief Revenue Officer, with then-CEO Stu Sjouwerman citing his experience across global software and technology companies; Hellemons in turn pointed to KnowBe4’s position in the security awareness training market as what drew him. From KnowBe4 he moved to Darktrace as Chief Revenue Officer.

New Relic announced his appointment as Chief Revenue Officer on July 13, 2026. The company framed the hire around the growth of AI-strengthened observability, with Willy describing him as a revenue leader experienced in guiding companies through growth and transformation. Hellemons reports directly to Willy and owns predictable revenue growth across enterprise, commercial, and partner channels. New Relic’s leadership page still carried him in the role when this profile was reviewed on September 19, 2026.

Education

University of Amsterdam

Master of Arts, Economics