GitLab CEO and leadership

Results-driven senior executive with over 20 years experience building, leading and advising multi-billion dollar technology companies through complex restructurings, hyper growth and capital markets transactions. Public and private company strategic CFO, extensive IPO experience, relationships with buy/sell side with comprehensive background in mergers and acquisitions. Multiple successful exits. Excellent leader with a track record of documented contributions leading to improved financial performance, heightened productivity and shareholder value creation. Strengths include leadership, creativity, adaptability, teamwork and communication.

Brian received his Bachelor of Science in Finance from Lipscomb University and a Masters of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.

Senior business executive with deep technology experience and 25 years leading product, sales, marketing, and business development teams for high-growth technology companies.

Education:

MBA - Stanford Graduate School of Business

BS, Mechanical Engineering - Stanford University

Specialties: Strategic Planning, Channel, Field and Inside Sales, Sales Operations, Marketing (inbound and outbound), Business Development, Product Management, Business Analytics, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Finance

Robin Schulman has over a decade of experience running global legal affairs for a number of companies, and having previously been a vital part of scaling companies, including from private to public, will be vital to GitLab’s continued growth. Most recently at Couchbase as senior vice president, chief legal officer and corporate secretary where Schulman led Couchbase’s global legal affairs, public policy, and compliance operations. Prior to that, she established, scaled, and managed New Relic’s global legal, compliance, privacy, and corporate governance operations from the ground up, through IPO, to an established, mature $4B market cap public company that had achieved profitability. Before that, Schulman led the legal function for a number of Adobe’s Marketing and Creative Cloud products. She received her law degree from the Rutgers University School of Law and has taught intellectual property law at Santa Clara Law School.