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 Approvers
 ([@open-telemetry/cpp-approvers](https://github.com/orgs/open-telemetry/teams/cpp-approvers)):
 
+* [Ehsan Saei](https://github.com/esigo)
 * [Johannes Tax](https://github.com/pyohannes), Microsoft
 * [Josh Suereth](https://github.com/jsuereth), Google
 * [Max Golovanov](https://github.com/maxgolov), Microsoft