GTLB Chief ExecutiveWhat Bill Staples says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
Chief Executive Officer & Director · GitLab Inc.
Appointed chief executive on 5 December 2024, when co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij moved to executive chair. Ran New Relic as chief executive from July 2021 to December 2023, and before that led Adobe's Experience Cloud engineering and Microsoft's Azure application platform. In May 2026 he published a letter titled "GitLab Act 2" that reset the strategy around agentic AI and announced an open restructuring; the June results confirmed a 14% workforce reduction and an exit from 22 countries.
Staples owns about 0% of GitLab Inc., worth $35.9M at the last close.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). Every input links to a filing or to the career file; the bands are ours.
Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for the filing.
| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Class A Common Stock | Direct | 758,828 |
| Reported as of 2026-06-30 | 758,828 | |
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 2026 | Buy | Open-market purchase · Class A Common Stock | +4,188 | $29.36 | $123K | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Jun 17, 2026 | Tax | Shares withheld for tax · Class A Common Stock | −26,425 | $28.31 | $748K | |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Award | Grant or award · Class A Common Stock | +436,414 | — | — | |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Buy | Open-market purchase across 2 lots, $21.30–$21.65 · Class A Common Stock | +6,010 | $21.35 avg | $128K | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Tax | Shares withheld for tax · Class A Common Stock | −7,030 | $22.69 | $160K | |
| Dec 31, 2025 | Buy | Open-market purchase · Class A Common Stock | +3,276 | $38.08 | $125K | under a 10b5-1 plan |
| Dec 15, 2025 | Tax | Shares withheld for tax · Class A Common Stock | −10,514 | $39.52 | $416K | |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Tax | Shares withheld for tax · Class A Common Stock | −10,515 | $50.30 | $529K |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTLB Gitlab Inc. This page | Chief Executive Officer | 758,828 2026-06-30 |
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| NEWR NEW RELIC, INC. | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | 111,743 2023-11-08 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
35 filings under CIK 0001801655 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
4 recorded appearances
With Bloomberg Intelligence's Mandeep Singh, ten days before the Q2 print: he argues faster AI code generation raises rather than lowers the need for governance and control across the lifecycle, positions GitLab as the cloud- and model-neutral orchestration layer for coding agents, and confirms the move from pure seat-based subscriptions to a hybrid that prices agent work by consumption.
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The full Transcend keynote, ten days after the restructuring was confirmed on the earnings call. Staples, chief product and marketing officer Manav Khurana and the product leads walk through the agentic roadmap with live demos and customer stories, including Mercedes-Benz.
Watch or read →The strategy reset, filed with the SEC rather than merely blogged. Staples announces an openly-run restructuring with a voluntary separation window, sets out ten "core beliefs" — software built by machines and directed by people, a generational rebuild of Git for machine-scale load, orchestration as the layer that turns agent activity into shipped software — and reaffirms Q1 and full-year FY27 guidance while deferring the cost of the cuts to the 2 June call.
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A short customer conversation with the software agency Cube on running GitLab Duo alongside Anthropic's Claude, and what changes for an engineering team that moves from writing code to directing agents.
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