SIG Network Leadership Changes

Shane Utt

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Mar 16, 2026, 1:54:43 PMMar 16

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Hello all,

I will be stepping down as chair of SIG Network. I am nominating Guilherme Cassolato as my replacement.

Gui has been a part of SIG Network for a long time. He has been crucial to the success of the Gateway API project, having always been an outstanding contributor and communicator there. He has worked across many sub-projects over the years, and most recently helped found our newest Kube Agentic Networking sub-project as a maintainer. I expect this will be uncontroversial, but if someone has questions or concerns they can contact us.

Thanks,

Shane

Ricardo Katz

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Mar 16, 2026, 3:24:34 PMMar 16

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+1! Gui is great and I am sure will be a very good replacement!

Thanks for all the work on your leadership Shane!

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Evan Jones

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Mar 16, 2026, 9:18:12 PMMar 16

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Thank you for your service, Shane!

Best

Evan Jones

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David Martin

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Mar 20, 2026, 6:05:46 AMMar 20

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Thanks for the help and guidance as chair Shane.

+1 to Gui taking over.

Gui has been a calm and consistent voice on many calls over the last number of years in this space

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Guilherme Cassolato

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Mar 30, 2026, 8:41:44 AM (10 days ago) Mar 30

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Thank you for the trust, Shane — it means a lot coming from you.

And thank you all for the kind words of support. I won't pretend filling Shane's shoes feels like anything other than a tall order, but I'll give it everything I've got in service of this community. Looking forward to it!

fl...@buoyant.io

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Mar 30, 2026, 9:57:19 AM (10 days ago) Mar 30

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Shane, thanks much for all the work poured into SIG-Network! It would be different place around here if you hadn't been there. +1 to Gui from me as well; Gui, I look forward to seeing great things from you! 🙂

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