Community leadership
This section provides an overview of the leadership structure within the Mautic project, expectations for those in leadership roles, and the decision-making processes that guide Mautic’s initiatives.
Leadership role definitions
Project Lead
The Mautic Council appoints the Project Lead. This role’s primary responsibility is to ensure Mautic’s success through vision, strategy, and community engagement. Key responsibilities include:
Strategic vision: establish and communicate a clear vision for Mautic, shaping project strategy.
Inspire volunteers and contributions: actively encourages community members to volunteer and contribute across all areas.
Community engagement: develop and support structures and processes that facilitate community involvement.
Decision-Making: actively participate in high-level decision-making, including a casting vote in the Mautic Council on strategic issues.
Additional duties:
Public representation: represent Mautic both publicly and within internal community structures.
Product and industry knowledge: provide extensive knowledge of the product and also the industry.
Supporting volunteer leaders: support community teams ensuring they remain on track, removing bottlenecks, addressing conflicts, supporting team leads in organising and managing their teams, and empowering volunteers.
Community engagement: lead with integrity, creating an environment conducive to collaboration and success.
Generally: lead in the best sense of the word.
The Project Lead is responsible for supporting in-person and global events, such as Mautic Conferences, bridging the community and key stakeholders, and managing Mautic’s community channels including the Forums, Slack, Mautic.org, and so forth, and support the community teams who manage these channels.
The Project Lead manages community and product strategy, guiding teams in resource mobilization to align with the overall vision. They hold the authority to appoint and remove volunteers within community teams. Additionally, the Project Lead holds a veto right on community nominations and strategic decisions, which is exercised only in exceptional circumstances where there is no way to achieve a consensus.
Team Lead
The Team Lead is a community-elected position responsible for leading a team. Key responsibilities include:
Leadership: lead a team, overseeing activities and guiding Working Groups.
Coordination: facilitate team meetings and coordinate with other Team Leads.
Assistant Team Lead
The Assistant Team Lead supports the Team Lead in executing the team’s objectives. Core duties include:
Support Role: assist the Team Lead in operational tasks and team coordination.
Inter-team Liaison: serve as a communication bridge between teams.
Steering Group Representation: participate in the relevant Steering Group as needed.
Working Group Lead
The Working Group Lead is a community-elected position responsible for guiding a specific Working Group. Responsibilities include:
Project Leadership: lead or empower others to manage projects within the Working Group.
Cross-Team Liaison: appoint liaisons to coordinate with other teams for projects involving multiple groups.
Working Group Assistant Lead
The Working Group Assistant Lead also is a community-elected position that supports the Working Group Lead by assisting with projects and group activities as required.
Current leadership team
The current leadership team and their terms are as follows:
Name |
Role |
Email Address |
Term Commenced |
Term Ends |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ruth Cheesley |
Project Lead |
2019 |
N/A |
|
Ekkehard Gümbel |
Community Team Lead |
2020 |
2023 |
|
Joey Keller |
Product Team Lead |
2024 |
2027 |
|
Favour Kelvin |
Education Team Lead |
2021 |
2024 |
|
Favour Chibueze |
Education Team Assistant Lead |
2024 |
2026 |
|
Ruth Cheesley |
Legal & Finance Team Lead |
N/A |
N/A |
|
Rahul Shinde |
Assistant Team Lead, Product |
2024 |
2027 |
|
Sven Döring |
Marketing Team Assistant Lead |
2023 |
2025 |
|
Mike Van Hemelrijck |
Assistant Team Lead, Marketing |
2024 |
2027 |
|
Norman Pracht |
Product Team Assistant Lead (Development) |
2023 |
2025 |
|
Avinash Dalvi |
Assistant Team Lead, Community |
2024 |
2027 |
Honor roll
These are individuals who have previously served on the Mautic Community Leadership Team:
Name |
Role |
Term Commenced |
Term Ended |
|---|---|---|---|
Mohit Aghera |
Product Team Assistant Lead (Development) |
2020 |
2023 |
Norman Pracht |
Product Team Lead |
2020 |
2023 |
John Linhart |
Technical Community Lead |
2022 |
2024 |
Déborah Salves |
Marketing Team Assistant Lead |
2021 |
2023 |
Dennis Ameling |
Product Team Assistant Lead |
2020 |
2021 |
Leon Oltmanns |
Education Team Lead |
2020 |
2021 |
Radu Zlatianu |
Marketing Team Lead |
2020 |
2021 |
Nico Grienauer |
Community Team Assistant Lead |
2020 |
|
Andy Towne |
Mautic Council Member |
2023 |
2024 |
Favour Chibueze |
Education Team Assistant Lead |
2024 |
2024 |
Oluwatobi Owolabi |
Marketing Team Lead |
2021 |
2024 |
Mattias Michaux |
Product Team Lead |
2023 |
2024 |
Joey Keller |
Product Team Assistant Lead (Product) |
2021 |
2023 |
Mautic Council
What’s the Mautic Council?
The Mautic Council is a governing body that addresses topics impacting the Mautic community as a whole, or matters that extend beyond individual teams. The Council convenes every three months and consists of seven elected representatives from the Mautic Community along with the Project Lead. Learn more by reading the Mautic Governance Model.
Name |
Role |
Email Address |
|---|---|---|
Simran Sethi |
Council Member |
|
Adrian Schimpf |
Council Member |
|
Dominique De Cooman |
Co-founder and co-CEO at Dropsolid |
|
Ekke Guembel |
CEO at Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing |
|
John Linhart |
Principal Software Engineer at Acquia |
|
Norman Pracht |
Associate General Manager at Webmecanik |
|
Prateek Jain |
Director of Digital Experience Services at Axelerant |
Mautic Council Honor Roll
The Mautic Council would like to thank the following individuals who have previously served on the Council:
Name |
Role |
Email Address |
Term Ended |
|---|---|---|---|
Andy Towne |
Council Member |
2025 |
|
Favour Chibueze |
Council Member |
2025 |