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Sytse Sijbrandij is our co-founder and served as our Chief Executive Officer until December 2024 and has been a member of our board of directors since September 2014, as Chair of our board of directors since March 2021 (Executive Chair since December 2024). Mr. Sijbrandij is also the Sole Member of Kilo Code Inc. From January 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Sijbrandij served as a founder at Comcoaster, a software company. From August 2009 to January 2012, Mr. Sijbrandij also served as a part-time Software Architect at Ministerie van Justitie, the Dutch Ministry of Safety & Justice. From November 2003 to December 2007, Mr. Sijbrandij was the Operational Director at U-Boat Worx B.V., a recreational submersible company. Mr. Sijbrandij earned a B.S. and M.Sc. from the University of Twente in Management Science. We believe Mr. Sijbrandij is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of the historical knowledge, operational expertise, leadership, and continuity that he brings to our board of directors as our co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer.

On September 19, 2025, the Board appointed James Shen as the Company's Interim Chief Financial Officer and interim principal financial officer, effective as of September 20, 2025. Mr. Shen, age 35, currently serves as the Company's Vice President, Finance and previously served in various roles in finance since January 2021. Prior, he served in various finance roles at Meta from August 2019 to January 2021, most recently as Corporate Finance Lead. From April 2016 to August 2019, Mr. Shen served in various finance roles, most recently as the SVP Finance, at Rainforest QA. Before that, Mr. Shen served in a variety of finance and investment related roles for GI Partners, a private equity firm, and Morgan Stanley, an investment bank. He holds a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Mr. James Shen will step down as CFO of the company, effective January 15, 2026. Mr. Shen will continue with the Company in his role as Vice President of Finance.

William Staples has served as our Chief Executive Officer since December 2024. Before joining GitLab, Mr. Staples served as the Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of New Relic, Inc. (New Relic) from July 2021 to December 2023. Prior, he served as New Relic's President and Chief Product Officer from January 2021 to July 2021. From September 2017 to January 2020, Mr. Staples served as the Vice President of Experience Cloud Engineering at Adobe Inc., where he led the global engineering team behind Adobe Inc.'s market-leading Experience Cloud. From 1999 to March 2016, Mr. Staples served in various product, design and engineering roles at Microsoft Corporation, and most recently as Vice President of Azure Application Platform. He holds a B.S. from the University of Utah. We believe that Mr. Staples is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his extensive experience as a product executive in the technology industry and his understanding of our business strategies and objectives as our chief executive officer.

David Henshall has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2025. Mr. Henshall served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., or Citrix, from July 2017 to October 2021. Prior to this role, he served in various other roles at Citrix, including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, among others, beginning in April 2003. Mr. Henshall currently serves on the board of directors at Presidio, Inc., an adaptive cloud services company, Blackline Systems, Inc., a cloud-based services company for financial close process management, and Feedzai an AI-native fraud prevention solutions company. Mr. Henshall holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. We believe that Mr. Henshall is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his experience in executive leadership, technology industries, finance, and as a director of public companies.

Sue Bostrom has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2019. Ms. Bostrom served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Cisco Systems, Inc., a technology services and products company, where she was an executive from 1997 to 2011. Ms. Bostrom has served as a member of the board of directors of Webflow, a visual web development platform, since June 2025, Samsara, a cloud operations platform company, since March 2021, Outreach, a sales engagement platform company, since March 2020, and ServiceNow, Inc., a cloud-based solutions software company, since July 2014. Ms. Bostrom served as a member of the board of directors of SingleStore, a software as a service company, from October 2022 to October 2025, Anaplan, Inc., a business planning software platform company, from September 2017 to June 2022, Nutanix, Inc., a virtualized datacenter platform company, from October 2017 to March 2022, Cadence Design Systems, a computational software company, from February 2011 to May 2021, and Varian Medical Systems, a radiation oncology treatments and software company, from February 2005 to February 2019. Ms. Bostrom earned a B.S. in Business from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. We believe that Ms. Bostrom is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of her experience in executive leadership, compensation committees, and as a director of public companies.

Karen Blasing has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2019. Ms. Blasing served as Chief Financial Officer of Guidewire Software, Inc., a back-end systems software company, from July 2009 to March 2015. Ms. Blasing has served as a member of the board of directors of AutoDesk, Inc., a 3D design software company, since March 2018, and Zscaler, Inc., a cloud-based information security company, since January 2017. Ms. Blasing also served as a member of the board of directors of Ellie Mae, Inc. from June 2015 to April 2019. Ms. Blasing earned a B.A. in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Montana and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington. We believe that Ms. Blasing is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of her extensive executive leadership, technology industry, finance, and public company directorship experience.

Sundeep Bedi has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2021. Mr. Bedi has been the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Whirl AI, Inc. since July 2025. Mr. Bedi served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Development Officer of Snowflake Inc. from January 2020 to March 2025. Previously, Mr. Bedi served in positions of increasing responsibility at Nvidia Corp. from February 2008 through January 2020, and as Vice President of Global IT. Mr. Bedi earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of San Francisco and an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco. We believe Mr. Bedi is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors because of his technical expertise and leadership experience in the technology industry.

On December 2, 2025, the Company announced that the board of directors of the Company appointed Jessica P. Ross as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective on or about January 15, 2026. Ms. Ross, previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Frontdoor, Inc., a leading provider of home warranties and new home structural warranties in the United States from December 2022 to November 2025. From March 2019 to November 2022, Ms. Ross served in roles of increasing responsibilities at Salesforce, Inc., a global leader in customer relationship management technology, including Executive Vice President, Enterprise Strategy and Operational Excellence, and Executive Vice President, Finance Chief Transformation Officer. From September 2017 to March 2019, Ms. Ross served as Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of Stitch Fix, Inc., a leading online personal styling service. Ms. Ross holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She also holds a Certified Public Accountant (CP A) license in the State of California, which is currently in retired status. Jessica P. Ross will be appointed as Principal Accounting Officer with effect from 16th September 2026.

Sivaprasad Padisetty has served as our Chief Technology Officer since January 2026. Mr. Padisetty previously served as Chief Technology Officer of New Relic, Inc., a tracking and analytics software company, from September 2022 to January 2026. From March 2014 to October 2022, Mr. Padisetty served in roles of increasing responsibility at Amazon.com, Inc., a global technology company, including General Manager, Management Tools and Director & Head of EC2 Windows, and prior to that served in a number of roles of increasing responsibility at Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Padisetty holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science from Anna University Chennai.

In February 2025, the board of directors appointed Ian Steward as our Chief Revenue Officer, effective as of May 3, 2025. He has previously served as Chief Revenue Officer of Tricentis, where he led the global revenue organization through a period of substantial growth and market expansion. He also served as Tricentis' Senior Vice President of Americas following the company's acquisition of QA Symphony, where he built and scaled the global sales team as the Global Vice President of Sales.