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Mazin Gilbert

Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation

Mazin Gilbert is the Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation home for open agentic AI projects such as the Model Context Protocol, goose and AGENTS.md. Gilbert's Linux Foundation biography describes earlier engineering leadership at Google and AT&T and a role in founding several open-source networking and AI projects.123

At a glance

Current role
Executive Director
Sector
Nonprofit
Work listed
2
Honors
1
Sources cited
5
Profile reviewed

Career

Gilbert's Linux Foundation biography describes more than 25 years of taking AI work from research to large-scale deployment. Before AAIF, Gilbert was Director of Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud AI/ML and, at AT&T, VP of Network Analytics and Automation, building production machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI platforms.2

The same biography lists service on the boards of the Open Network Foundation, NSF MLWINS and the International Computer Science Institute.2

Agentic AI Foundation

The Linux Foundation announced the Agentic AI Foundation in December 2025 as a neutral home for open agentic AI infrastructure, with founding project contributions including MCP, goose and AGENTS.md. Gilbert now leads it as Executive Director and is a featured keynote speaker at the foundation's AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan conference.512

In September 2026, speaking for AAIF as executive director, Gilbert welcomed the Gates Foundation as the foundation's first philanthropic member, framing the move as a way to widen who takes part in building open agentic AI.4

Work and contributions

  • Agentic AI Foundation Open-source code

    Leads the foundation as Executive Director; AAIF is a neutral foundation under the Linux Foundation that hosts open protocols and open-source projects for agentic AI, including MCP, goose, AGENTS.md, Agent2Agent and agentgateway.13

  • ONAP, Akraino and Acumos Open-source code

    Co-founded the ONAP, Akraino and Acumos open-source projects and helped found LF Networking, LF Edge and LF AI, according to the Linux Foundation's speaker biography.2

Timeline

  1. Was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to speech processing.2
  2. The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation.5
  3. Announced, as AAIF executive director, the Gates Foundation joining as the first philanthropic member.4

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Director of Engineering for Google Distributed Cloud AI/ML, Google2
  • VP of Network Analytics and Automation, AT&T2

Honors and recognition

  • IEEE Fellow · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 20122

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References

5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. Staff — Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan — featured speakers (Mazin Gilbert biography)The Linux Foundation · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  3. About — Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  4. Agentic AI Foundation Welcomes the Gates Foundation to Help Expand the Benefits of Agentic AI GloballyThe Linux Foundation · Announcement · published Sep 15, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  5. Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI FoundationThe Linux Foundation · Announcement · published Dec 9, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026