Mazin Gilbert
Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation at the Linux Foundation; IEEE Fellow
- Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)134
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.132
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.3
The same biography lists service on the boards of the Open Network Foundation, NSF MLWINS and the International Computer Science Institute.3
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.513
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
Agentic AI Foundation (external site: aaif.io)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.12
ONAP, Akraino and Acumos (external site: events.linuxfoundation.org)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.3
Career timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
Honors and recognition
- IEEE Fellow · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 20123
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