2025 Matrix Governing Board Endorsements

I have decided that I will not stand again in this year’s Matrix Governing Board elections. I recently joined Can/Am Technologies as a tech lead and I do not feel like I can dedicate a sufficient amount of time to be a good board member. Thus, I have decided to step aside and let others have a chance to take on the challenge of governance.

I would like to make a few endorsements for the upcoming elections.

Greg Sutcliffe

I endorse Greg Sutcliffe to represent Individual Members on the Board.

Greg has served as the Chair of the Governing Board and has been essential to the Board’s current success. He has been instrumental in writing the bylaws establishing the processes by which the Board operates. His experience with governance across a variety of open source projects is invaluable to the Matrix Governing Board. In his role as Chair, he meets regularly with the Vice Chair (Kim Brose aka HarHarLinks) and the Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation (Robin Riley).

In addition to his role as Chair of the Board, Greg is a member and active participant of multiple committees. For example, he is a member of the Community Committee which I have chaired since its inception.

I wholeheartedly endorse Greg. If he were not re-elected, it would be a great blow to the smooth operation of the Governing Board.

Brad Murray

I endorse Brad Murray representing Automattic as a Gold Member candidate.

I had the pleasure of working with Brad for four years at Beeper (acquired by Automattic). I reported directly to him for about half of that time, and he was my skip-manager for the other half.

Brad always led Beeper towards using Matrix to back our features by utilizing custom rooms and events. He also pushed for us to upstream our contributions to Synapse and implement more Matrix features in mautrix-go and other open source projects rather than in our proprietary SDK.

I trust Brad as a leader, and put my full endorsement behind him.