Ian Steward

Chief Revenue Officer GitLab

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Ian Steward is Chief Revenue Officer of GitLab Inc., the NASDAQ-listed DevSecOps platform company, a post he has held since May 3, 2025. He owns GitLab’s go-to-market strategy across sales, partners and customer engagement, and is one of the company’s named executive officers. He arrived from Tricentis, the continuous-testing software company, where he had risen to Chief Revenue Officer after running its Americas business — a path that began at QA Symphony, the test-management vendor Tricentis acquired, where he built its global sales organization.

Career Highlights

• Appointed Chief Revenue Officer of GitLab effective May 3, 2025; the company announced the hire alongside its fiscal-2025 fourth-quarter results, noting he joined from Tricentis and that interim CRO Ashley Kramer would remain through the end of Q1 FY26 to hand over.
• Served as Chief Revenue Officer of Tricentis, leading its global revenue organization through what GitLab’s proxy statement describes as substantial growth and market expansion.
• Served as Tricentis’ Senior Vice President of Americas following that company’s acquisition of QA Symphony.
• Built and scaled QA Symphony’s global sales team as its Global Vice President of Sales.
• Listed among GitLab’s named executive officers for fiscal year 2026, alongside the CEO, CFO, Chief Legal Officer and CTO.
• Confirmed still in post as of September 16, 2026 by a Form 4 filed two days later carrying the officer title Chief Revenue Officer.

Professional Journey

Steward’s career has run along a single thread — enterprise software sold to developers and IT organisations — through three companies linked by acquisition. He joined QA Symphony, an Atlanta-based test-management software vendor, and became its Global Vice President of Sales, where GitLab’s proxy statement credits him with building and scaling the global sales team.

Tricentis, the Austrian continuous-testing company, acquired QA Symphony, and Steward moved across with the business. He was made Senior Vice President of Americas for the combined company, and later Chief Revenue Officer, taking responsibility for the global revenue organisation during a period the proxy characterises as substantial growth and market expansion.

GitLab recruited him out of that role. The company announced on the fiscal-2025 fourth-quarter earnings release that Steward would join as Chief Revenue Officer effective May 3, 2025, describing him as having “spent his career driving revenue growth with a strong analytical and operational bias.” He replaced an interim arrangement: Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Ashley Kramer had been covering the CRO role and stayed on through the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2026 to complete the transition.

In his own handbook README — GitLab publishes executive readmes openly as part of its transparency practice — Steward describes his remit as “driving growth through alignment, accountability, and operational excellence across all revenue functions,” and characterises himself as biased toward execution over strategy, asking of any initiative whether the field actually adopted it. He remains in the role; a Form 4 covering a September 16, 2026 transaction, filed on September 18, 2026, records his officer title as Chief Revenue Officer.

Education

No education record was found for Ian Steward in any source consulted. GitLab’s 2026 proxy statement gives degrees for its other executive officers but records none for him, so the field is left empty rather than filled from an aggregator.