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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-014893"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTLB"
cik: "0001653482"
company_name: "Gitlab Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T02:20:14.831221+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GitLab director Mark Porter steps down; Board reduces to seven

## Summary
- Mark Porter resigned from GitLab's Board and Audit Committee effective April 12, 2024.
- Godfrey Sullivan, current Lead Independent Director, appointed to Audit Committee.
- Board size reduced from eight to seven members effective April 12, 2024.
- Porter's departure not due to any disagreement with the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-014893
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTLB
- cik: 0001653482
- company_name: Gitlab Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828024014893/0001628280-24-014893-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828024014893/gtlb-20240403.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-24-014893.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mark Porter departed as Director at Gitlab Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 3, 2024, the board of directors (the “Board”) of GitLab Inc. (the “Company”) received notice from Mark Porter of his decision to step down from the Board and as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee, respectively, effective as of April 12, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653482/000162828024014893/0001628280-24-014893-index.htm

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