Mozilla Leadership

Mark Surman has spent three decades building a better internet, from the advent of the web to the rise of artificial intelligence.

As President of Mozilla, a global nonprofit backed technology company that does everything from making Firefox to advocating for a more open, equitable internet, Mark’s current focus is ensuring the various Mozilla organizations work in concert to make trustworthy AI a reality. Mark led the creation of Mozilla.ai (a commercial AI R+D lab) and Mozilla Ventures (an impact venture fund with a strong focus on AI).

Mark was Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation for 15 years. He grew the organization into an international movement-building force, renowned for its fellowships, philanthropy, advocacy, and insights work.

Prior, Mark was the founding Director of telecentre.org, a $26M initiative connecting community technology centers in more than 30 countries. He ran the Commons Group, a boutique consulting firm specializing in open source and social enterprise. And he was awarded the prestigious Shuttleworth Fellowship to explore open source approaches to philanthropy.

Mark’s analysis and opinions have been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company and dozens of other publications. He has delivered keynotes on five continents at major global events, discussing trustworthy AI, open source, and the future of the internet.

Mark serves on the Mozilla Foundation Board and is a past board member at Peer-to-Peer University, World Bank Solutions for Youth Employment Consortium, the Toronto Arts Foundation, Connected Learning Alliance, Telefonica’s Think Big, the Association for Progressive Communications, Wild Canada and rabble.ca.

Mark lives in Toronto. He holds a BA in the History of Community Media from the University of Toronto.

Before assuming the role of CEO, Laura played a pivotal role as a member of the Mozilla Corporation Board for three years. During this time, she contributed significantly as the company underwent a strategic overhaul, preparing to tackle the evolving challenges in the internet's next 25 years of development.

With a strong focus on product leadership, Laura has a proven track record of steering organizations through substantial transformations and turnarounds. Her notable experiences include:

• AirBnB: Led the core hosts business, which accounted for three-quarters of the company's operations. Drove a path to reacceleration through growth levers and tech platform transformation
• eBay and PayPal: Held various roles, including driving a turnaround for eBay's core global consumer selling division, and launching PayPal Mobile in 2009 during the rise of the mobile revolution.
• Willow Innovations: Served as the CEO of this innovative wearable medical device company, leading the company through rapid growth, product innovation and channel expansion.

Beyond these accomplishments, Laura has held positions at Skype, McKinsey & Co, and the UNDP. A recognized author and thought leader, she has contributed to Fortune Magazine on topics such as trusting your instincts and avoiding burnout. As a member of World50 and YPO, exclusive peer groups of global leaders and CEOs, Laura brings a wealth of insights and expertise to the table.

Laura holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne. She currently resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children.

Before Mozilla Ventures, Mohamed was the Deputy CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), which invests in independent media around the world providing the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies. He continues to serve on the Investment Committee of MDIF.

Mohamed spent nearly a decade at Al Jazeera, where he started the New Media department which focused on innovation and product development across internet, mobile, and social technologies. He then served as the Head of Online at Al Jazeera English where he led the team that produced the award-winning coverage of the Arab revolutions in 2011.

In 2005 Mohamed founded QatarLiving.com (acquired in 2012), a listings and community website that quickly grew to be the largest site in Qatar. He also co-founded Signalnoi.se, a social analytics platform for newsrooms that won the Knight News Challenge.

Mohamed previously served as a board member of the Mozilla Foundation, Media Development Investment, as the Board Chair of Global Voices Online, the Advisory Board of Creative Commons, and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Media.

He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand and a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

Jane Silber, CEO of Mozilla.ai, is an accomplished technology executive, business leader and Board member. Her experience spans R&D, product development, open source communities and businesses, and is complemented by a strong background in company scaling, general management, distributed teams and corporate governance. With deep expertise in technology and AI, she brings a well-rounded perspective to leadership and innovation.

She previously served as CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system. Joining as Chief Operating Officer (COO), she played a key role in shaping the company’s strategy, operations and growth. As CEO, she led Canonical through a period of expansion, driving adoption and commercial success of Ubuntu across cloud computing, enterprise IT, and consumer markets.

Before Canonical, Jane held executive roles with General Dynamics C4 Systems in the US, and spent several years focused on R&D and new product development with Teijin Ltd in Yokohama, Japan.

She maintains a diverse portfolio of non-executive Board members, including past and present roles with Diffblue (AI-powered software development), Induction Healthcare (technology for operational efficiency and improved patient outcomes), Weaveworks (cloud-native container management tools), and VONQ (recruitment marketing solutions), amongst others. She also serves as a member of the Mozilla Ventures Investment Committee.

Jane holds a BS in Mathematics from Haverford College, an MS in Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA from Oxford University. She lives in London, England.

Nabiha Syed is Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, the global nonprofit that does everything from championing trustworthy AI to advocating for a more open, equitable internet.

Nabiha was the Chief Executive Officer of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit that challenges technology to serve the public good. Under her leadership, The Markup’s unique approach was referenced by Congress 21 times, inspired dozens of class action lawsuits, won a national Murrow Award and a Loeb Award, and recognized as “Most Innovative” by FastCompany in 2022.

Prior to The Markup, Nabiha was a highly acclaimed media lawyer. Nabiha’s legal career spanned private practice, the New York Times First Amendment Fellowship, and leading BuzzFeed’s libel and newsgathering matters, including the successful defense of the Steele Dossier litigations. She sits on the board of the Scott Trust, the $1B+ British company that owns The Guardian newspaper, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, the New Press, and serves as an advisor to ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech.

Before assuming the role of CEO, Laura played a pivotal role as a member of the Mozilla Corporation Board for three years. During this time, she contributed significantly as the company underwent a strategic overhaul, preparing to tackle the evolving challenges in the internet's next 25 years of development.

With a strong focus on product leadership, Laura has a proven track record of steering organizations through substantial transformations and turnarounds. Her notable experiences include:

• AirBnB: Led the core hosts business, which accounted for three-quarters of the company's operations. Drove a path to reacceleration through growth levers and tech platform transformation
• eBay and PayPal: Held various roles, including driving a turnaround for eBay's core global consumer selling division, and launching PayPal Mobile in 2009 during the rise of the mobile revolution.
• Willow Innovations: Served as the CEO of this innovative wearable medical device company, leading the company through rapid growth, product innovation and channel expansion.

Beyond these accomplishments, Laura has held positions at Skype, McKinsey & Co, and the UNDP. A recognized author and thought leader, she has contributed to Fortune Magazine on topics such as trusting your instincts and avoiding burnout. As a member of World50 and YPO, exclusive peer groups of global leaders and CEOs, Laura brings a wealth of insights and expertise to the table.

Laura holds an MBA from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne. She currently resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children.

As Mozilla’s Chief of Staff to the CEO, Jenny supports Laura Chambers and empowers the leadership team through strategic collaboration and planning.

Previously, Jenny spent 6.5 years at Meta managing diversity strategic partnerships and driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives as Chief of Staff and Business Operations Lead. At Intuit, she led the diversity recruiting strategy and developed emerging talent through the Rotational Development Program. During her 13-year tenure with Special Olympics Northern California, Jenny’s role involved fostering sports programs and providing opportunities for corporate philanthropy.

Outside of work, Jenny enjoys quality time with friends, family (often with wine), working out and lake time with her partner. Together they have a dog named Davis, named after their alma mater UC Davis.

As Senior Vice President of Firefox, Anthony is responsible for guiding the vision and strategy for Firefox, driving overall business growth, and fostering a strong, motivated team.

Anthony brings a broad range of experience across several industries, including real estate and prop tech, consumer fintech, e-commerce, and automotive. Prior to joining Mozilla, Anthony served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Roofstock, where he oversaw the technology roadmap for the entire organization as well as multiple business product lines. During his tenure, he led the company through a strategic acquisition that significantly enhanced its product offerings.

Earlier, as Chief Product Officer at Better, Anthony led product and design efforts across the business, with a focus on the mortgage application, real estate, title, and insurance sectors of consumer mortgage. Before that, he held product leadership roles at Wayfair, where he created the B2B and B2C product divisions, developed a comprehensive API strategy, and served as the product lead for supply chain platforms. He rose to General Manager of product, engineering, and design for Partner Home, Wayfair's two-sided marketplace. Prior to Wayfair, Anthony was part of the product team at Dealer.com, working on go-to-market strategy, product readiness, and general product management.

Anthony holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, as well as an MS and BS from Champlain College. Based in Boston with his family, he enjoys spending time outdoors, kayaking, and hiking.

As Mozilla’s Chief Financial Officer, Eric is responsible for leading financial operations for the company as we scale our mission impact with new and existing products, technology and business models to better serve our users and advance our agenda for a healthier, more joyful internet.

Most recently, Eric provided strategic financial and operating services as an independent consultant to a variety of early stage and privately-funded startups. Prior to that, he served as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer at BuzzFeed where he oversaw the restructuring of the company to drive impact, creating a more unified and integrated organization.

Eric started his career at the Walt Disney Company, where he held various leadership roles over more than 15 years, including spending three years as an expatriate in China managing the expansion of Disney English, the company’s China-based learning center business. Following his tenure at Disney, Eric was CFO at Helix Education, a provider of technologies and services to power data-driven higher education growth, and at the programmatic advertising exchange OpenX Technologies.

Eric currently serves on the boards of the Independent Shakespeare Co. of Los Angeles and Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. He graduated from Princeton University cum laude in Mathematics and holds an MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business. He’s based in Los Angeles, California.

As Chief Marketing Officer, Lindsey O’Brien leads Mozilla’s global marketing strategy and organization. In this role she guides the team to find new ways to attract people to our new products and Firefox browsers, in a period when there has never been greater need for privacy-focused solutions to the challenges of online life.

Previously, Lindsey was Vice President of Product Marketing, with responsibility for overseeing new product launches, nurturing existing products, ideating on key campaigns and go-to-market strategies, and evangelizing new innovations in internet technologies to drive Mozilla’s future growth.

Prior to Mozilla, Lindsey headed up corporate-level marketing for Facebook Inc., including leading product marketing for Facebook’s core products: News Feed, News, Stories, Civic Engagement, Privacy and Safety. Before joining Facebook, Lindsey led marketing for GoldieBlox, a Bay Area start-up focused on bridging the gender gap in STEM.

Lindsey lives in the Sierra Foothills with her husband Joe, her two kids, three dogs, and four cats. In her spare time, you’ll find her sweeping up pet hair, gardening, and singing to her houseplants.

As Senior Vice President of Infrastructure, Girish is responsible for Platform Services, AI/ML Data Platform, Core Services & SRE, IT Services and Security spanning Corporate and Product technology and services. His focus is on streamlining tools and services that enable teams to deliver products efficiently and securely.

Previously, Girish led the Platform Engineering and Operations team as Warner Bros Discovery for their flagship streaming product Max. Prior to that he led various digital transformation initiatives at Electronic Arts, Equinix Inc and Cisco. Girish’s professional journey spans various market domains (OTT Streaming, Gaming, Blockchain, Hybrid Cloud Data Center,etc) where he leveraged technology to solve large scale complex problems to meet customer and business outcomes.

Girish is based out of Seattle. His escape is riding his motorcycle and trying to learn quantum physics.

As SVP of New Products, Peter Rojas leads the teams that drive Mozilla’s early stage product exploration and development. Before joining Mozilla, Peter was Head of Product for New Product Experimentation (NPE) at Meta, where he led incubations and early stage explorations, and a senior product director for Messenger and Instagram Direct. He also served as founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, a consumer tech-focused seed stage venture capital firm that made notable investments in Rec Room, Hugging Face, Bunch, 8th Wall (acquired by Niantic), Squad (acquired by Twitter), Campus, and Streem (acquired by Frontdoor).

Earlier in his career, Peter co-founded several startups, including Weblogs Inc. (acquired by AOL in 2005), where he created and was editor-in-chief of both Engadget and Joystiq; Gizmodo, the first Gawker Media site; music discovery service RCRD LBL; and gdgt, a social commerce platform (acquired by AOL in 2013). After gdgt's acquisition he served as VP of Strategy at AOL, as well as Co-director of Alpha, the company's experimental product group.

Peter has been a contributor on technology for a number of widely-read newspapers and magazines, including Wired, The New York Times, Village Voice, Slate, Salon, Vice, Surface, Food & Wine, Popular Science, Fortune, Money, Guardian, Cargo, and Business 2.0. He was also an on-air segment host for “I Want That: Tech Toys”, HGTV's show on gadgets and personal technology and began his career as an editor and writer for Red Herring, the business of technology magazine that defined the dot com era. He is based in San Francisco.

As Founder and CEO of Anonym, Brad Smallwood leverages over two decades of expertise in advertising measurement and data to lead the company. In this role, he drives innovative solutions to enhance consumer privacy and data accuracy in digital advertising.

Previously, Brad served as SVP of Marketing Science and Pricing at Meta, where he led Facebook’s measurement and data targeting strategy from 2008 to 2021, building the Marketing Science team to over 500 people. He also held leadership roles at Yahoo as General Manager and at Namezero as COO and VP of Product, where he drove significant advancements in product development.

A world-renowned expert in advertising measurement, Brad developed the internet’s first advertising targeting system and holds numerous key internet patents. He has deep relationships with ad products leaders, CMOs, and trade associations, having designed and led major measurement partnerships with companies like Nielsen and Kantar.

Brad lives with his family, enjoying cycling, running, and snowboarding in his spare time.

As Mozilla’s Chief Legal Officer, Carlos is responsible for leading the company’s global legal and public policy teams that develop the legal, regulatory and policy strategy to support the company’s mission to create a healthy internet. Carlos also serves as Corporate Secretary.

Most recently, Carlos was general counsel of several venture-backed companies in the proptech, supply chain and crypto industries. Prior to that he spent over a decade at Salesforce in a variety of leadership roles. He also served as senior counsel of a biotech company and started his legal career at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.

Carlos holds an undergraduate degree in History from UCLA and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. As a first-generation college graduate, Carlos believes in the power of education and enjoys supporting education programs and organizations. He lives with his wife and daughter in San Francisco.

As Mozilla’s Senior Vice President of Innovation Ecosystems, Imo is responsible for cultivating new innovative ideas and technology from conception to launch outside Mozilla’s core products. In addition to product innovation, Imo is also focused on creating systems to foster collaboration across an ecosystem of stakeholders to help realize Mozilla’s vision to build a better internet.

Previously, Imo was the Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Outmatch where he was responsible for ensuring the business and product strategy delivered value to customers, while never losing sight of its mission to match people with purpose.

Prior to Outmatch, Imo co-founded and served as CEO of Wepow, where he grew the video interviewing solution from a small side-project in 2010 to a successful enterprise platform supporting hundreds of global brands and later through its acquisition by Outmatch.

Imo enjoys volunteering and giving back to the community. He is on the board of the Delta San Francisco Peninsula Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to improve the quality of life in the San Francisco and Peninsula area by supporting programs that foster educational growth and to provide financial assistance in the form of scholarships and awards.

As Mozilla’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations, Suba Vasudevan is responsible for leading Mozilla’s operational strategy to bring better, more relevant products to new audiences.

Suba spent well over two decades leading small and large teams in strategy, operations, analytics, customer support and trust & safety. She has nurtured and expanded critical global organizations within Meta (formerly Facebook), driving innovation and trust. Prior, she advised clients across industries at KPMG’s Advisory Services and began her career as a journalist in India, exploring the intersection of technology and business.

She has a Master’s degree in Information Systems from Texas A&M, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University. For several years, Suba served as a Board Member for Mainspring Schools, a local non-profit in Austin, Texas for children from underprivileged families, leading their Strategic Planning Committee and demonstrating her commitment to community and inclusion-focused initiatives.

As VP of Communications, Brandon is responsible for shaping the global communications strategy and plan that supports brand-building initiatives and long-term business goals. Brandon oversees the global press, social media, editorial, partnerships, and community teams to develop impactful messaging and outbound communications across the Mozilla brand and all of our products.

For more than 20 years, Brandon has been developing and executing communications strategies for some of the world’s most recognized and admired organizations. Prior to this, Brandon served as Head of Communications at a Web3 startup, Alchemy, as their first non-engineering hire. He helped the company become the largest developer platform in the market while building a comms team focused on social and community engagement.

Prior to Alchemy, Brandon worked at X (formerly Twitter) as head of global communications. While there, he helped lead the company's efforts to better secure the conversation around elections globally and played a key role in redefining the product narrative, as X made its first significant product charges in more than a decade. He has also led communications at Ancestry, helped Quantcast make a pivot to AI, led the crisis communications team at United Airlines, and worked at the Joele Frank and Brunswick Group, leading a diverse collection of clients including Dropbox, Airbnb, Facebook, Cisco, Ford, and Virgin America.

As Mozilla’s Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, Katherine leads the team in charge of growth and partnerships. She is responsible for managing global search and product partnerships, generating new revenue streams and exploring new business models and opportunities.

Partners are critical to Mozilla’s reach and impact. As such, Katherine’s team oversees partner-product strategy and go-to-market efforts related to Firefox (desktop and mobile), Security & Privacy products, channel and distribution, and new product and service areas.

Previously, as Senior Director of Business Development, Katherine led her team through major new initiatives, product expansion, new business revenue generation, distribution, and rapid discovery efforts across Mozilla’s core, adjacent and conceptual product lines.

Prior to Mozilla, Katherine was an entrepreneur, founding and bootstrapping SnapTwice, a photo-centric mobile and web offering, geared toward consumers and SMBs. Before that, Katherine led Business Development for Tripadvisor (TRIP) in the Americas for several years, focused on mobile and non-desktop growth. She was part of the executive team that grew and sold EveryTrail, a mobile travel startup, to Tripadvisor in 2011; Tripadvisor went public later that same year. Katherine earned her MBA and BA from Stanford University.

Vicky Chin is the Vice President of Engineering leading the Firefox Desktop organization. Her team is focused on building innovative features to improve the Firefox browser experience on Mozilla’s flagship product.

Vicky joined Mozilla in 2018 to establish Firefox’s performance program. Prior to Mozilla, she spent over a decade leading compiler development teams at IBM.

Vicky serves on the board of Internet Security Research Group. She completed her undergraduate studies in Engineering Science and her Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto.

As Mozilla’s Vice President of Go To Market for Mozilla’s Anonym Privacy Technologies, Jesse is responsible for helping the industry achieve better marketing results while maintaining gold standard levels of consumer privacy.

Jesse has spent decades in Analytics, Data Science, Advertising, and Advertising Measurement as an entrepreneur, an SVP at Nielsen, and a VP at Meta leading the Marketing Science America’s organization. Jesse has lived and worked in the Bay Area, New York, China, and Europe, leading and inspiring large global teams of client-facing analytics and sales professionals.

Jesse is a graduate of M.I.T., holding a Masters in Operations Research and a Bachelors in Management Science. He and his family live in New York City.

As Mozilla’s VP of Finance, Nicholas leads the team in charge of corporate finance. He is responsible for capital planning, structure, and working capital management.

Capital allocation is vital to achieving Mozilla’s reach and impact. As such, Nicholas’s team oversees annual budgeting and forecasting, deployment of capital, and financial decisions and control executed in close collaboration with business partners.

Previously, as Senior Director of Finance, Nicholas led the Corporate FP&A team, including Corp Planning, Financial Systems, Search Revenue Finance, and Procurement, and made significant improvements in our budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes and systems enabling improvement across the business.

Prior to Mozilla, Nicholas worked in private equity managing CPG portfolios specializing in confection across Hawaii and Guam.

As Vice President of Engineering for Anonym, Tamara and her team are building privacy preserving technologies to enable relevant and performant advertising while ensuring user privacy. The Anonym team employs PETs such as trusted execution environments and differential privacy to power targeting, optimization, and measurement solutions for the ad industry.

Tamara joined Mozilla in 2024 as part of the Anonym acquisition. Prior to joining Anonym, Tamara led the Core Algorithms R&D team at The Trade Desk. She worked on problems related to ad measurement and identity at Snap, Facebook, and Datalogix/Oracle Data Cloud. When she’s not focused on creating performance and privacy, Tamara enjoys reading and exploring the trails around Colorado with her dog. Tamara has a MS and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of California, Davis.

Linda’s most recent role was as Vice President for Public Policy and Communications at Kry – Europe’s largest health tech start-up. In that role she consolidated Kry’s public policy functions across markets. Previously she established and led public policy at the leading mobile games developer King. After King’s acquisition by the Activision Blizzard Group Linda became Vice President for Public Policy across the entire group.

Linda is Co-founder of the European Tech Alliance (EUTA) and was its Chair and later Advisory Board member. She was Vice President of the Board of DOT Europe, and a Board Member of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce in the UK. Earlier in her career, Linda led Facebook’s EMEA policy communications and early work in government transparency reporting, security, and privacy. She began her career in public policy consulting as an advisor to Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel, governments including UAE and Singapore, and other clients.

At Mozilla, Linda is responsible for developing and rolling out our work on public policy across all of our organizations, spanning topics from platform accountability to artificial intelligence.

Bobby began working on Firefox as an intern in 2008, and became its Chief Technology Officer in 2023. He has hands-on engineering experience with most corners of the browser and has led some of its largest engineering projects, including the integration of the Rust language and a multithreaded CSS engine into Firefox.

As CTO, Bobby oversees technical strategy, standards engagement, and industry relationships, and supports the career development of Firefox’s senior technical talent. He serves as final decider for technical concerns and chair of the TLMC, the top-level technical governing body for Firefox.

Bobby was a founding director of the Rust Foundation and currently serves as chair of the Bytecode Alliance. He holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

As Mozilla’s Vice President of Data Science and Engineering, John Humphrey is responsible for leading Mozilla’s efforts to build a better internet through the responsible use of data to deliver great user experiences.

For over two decades, John has been obsessed with how organizations can use data to make better decisions and deliver products that delight their users. He built and scaled the data capability for Intuit’s Quickbooks Online and Mailchimp businesses as well as led the data org at LegalZoom through its IPO. He is also involved in the open source community, helping organize a community dedicated to helping smaller retail brands unlock the power of their data.

John holds a Master’s degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Science from Virginia Tech. John lives in Miami, Florida with his wife and cat. When not crunching data, he is likely to be found on his bike or traveling.

As Vice President of Marketing, Europe, Robin is leading the marketing strategy and go-to-market activations for the European region for Mozilla’s brand and products. He joined Mozilla in 2019 with the mission to grow Mozilla’s consumer impact in Germany, France and the UK.

Prior to Mozilla, Robin has led strategic marketing initiatives at international corporations and agencies such as Viacom, Coca-Cola, ASICS, VCCP and Razorfish. He has worked across businesses and marketing disciplines, both globally and in European markets, focusing on integrated marketing communications, digital transformation, brand, business and creative strategy. His people-oriented leadership is a driving force for building Mozilla’s operations in the region, unlocking the opportunity of “what can be”.

Robin majored in Political Science and American Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany and holds a Coaching Certification from INSEAD. He lives with his husband Guido in the ever-transforming Berlin, Germany.

Chris is the VP of Engineering responsible for the services and platforms that power Firefox and other Mozilla products. Chris's team plays a critical role in ensuring Mozilla delivers a seamless and secure experience to users around the world.

With over 12 years of experience at Mozilla, Chris has a deep understanding of the organization's mission and values. Chris holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, where his research focused on human factors in security, particularly helping people stay safe online. Prior to joining Mozilla, Chris worked on improving password management and identity solutions on the Web.

As the VP Marketing, North America, Christina Lang (who prefers to be called Lang) is hyper-focused on creative ways to introduce our suite of products to new North American audiences. Lang joined Mozilla in June of 2021 and brought with her over a decade of expertise in marketing strategy, operations, and program management in the tech space for companies such as Outbrain and Facebook.

A collaborative problem solver, Lang’s superpower is seeing a path through complexity and bringing everyone along for the ride. She is committed to amplifying the consumer marketing work coming out of Mozilla’s North American Marketing team, and developing efficiencies that will further strengthen the wider organization.

Prior to Mozilla, she led marketing strategy and operations at Twitch, where she was responsible for optimizing process to support product development and go-to-market strategy, as well as driving annual planning and culture building for the marketing organization.

Based in San Francisco, raised as a New York Italian, Lang is not only blessed with genetic loudness and distinctive pronunciation, but also learned to cook at a very young age and continues to work on nailing her Nana’s tomato sauce.

Graham Mudd is Senior Vice President, Product Management, for Anonym, a division of the Mozilla Corporation that develops privacy preserving technologies for the digital advertising industry. Graham was a co-founder of Anonym, which was acquired by Mozilla in June 2024. Anonym was founded with the belief that advanced technologies can enable high performing, measurable advertising while preserving people’s privacy.

Graham has spent his career at the intersection of analytics and data driven advertising. Prior to co-founding Anonym, Graham spent 10 years at Meta; in his last role he was Vice President, Product Marketing for Ads and Business Products at Meta. Prior to joining Meta, Graham held leadership positions at Comscore and Yahoo.

Graham holds a B.S. in Psychology from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. Graham lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and twin son and daughter. He loves to cook, entertain, travel and ski with friends and family.

As Vice President of Legal, Masayo leads the Mozilla legal team that supports the company’s mission to create a healthy internet.

Prior to Mozilla, Masayo was the Deputy General Counsel at an AI/ML startup focused on providing insights through privacy-preserving methods. Prior to that she was Assistant General Counsel at edge cloud platform provider Fastly, supporting the company’s rapid growth through its initial public offering and beyond. She has also supported new and growing business lines in the consumer space, advising on luxury retailer RH’s first restaurant in Chicago. Masayo started her legal career as a corporate attorney at Morrison & Foerster.

Masayo believes that words matter, context matters more, and people matter the most. This mantra guides her approach to supporting the incredible team that is responsible for keeping Mozilla compliant and managing risk, while simultaneously enabling the business to create compelling products that solve some of the internet’s biggest challenges.

Having spent time in Tokyo and then close to a decade in San Francisco, Masayo now lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles. When time permits she practices her splits, a hard won feat that she hopes to keep up into retirement.

Andrew is the VP of Engineering responsible for Mozilla’s web platform implementation, Gecko. His team of Mozillians from around the world are experts in building our world-class web browser engine that manifests Mozilla’s values.

Having an independent implementation of the web platform as a part of Firefox is important to Mozilla’s mission and vision of an open and accessible internet. Andrew and his team maintain solid working relationships with their colleagues across the industry and productively collaborate via standards bodies such as the IETF and the W3C.

Andrew joined Mozilla in May of 2012 after having spent a decade working at Red Hat. He was a member of a variety of open source communities and enjoyed his time as a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. He holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto.

In his role as Vice President of Firefox Product, Ajit leads the development of the Firefox strategy, ensuring it’s a delightful experience for current users, as well as those of the future. Ajit has years of product management experience from Square, Google, and immediately prior to joining Mozilla, Meta, where he was responsible for monetization of WhatsApp and overseeing Meta’s business messaging platform. Earlier in his career, he was a co-founder and CEO of Adku, a venture-funded machine learning platform that was acquired by Groupon. Ajit has a BS from the University of Texas at Austin. He is based in the Bay Area.

Kerry Cooper is an experienced consumer and retail executive and board member with a successful history of building and growing businesses, teams and developing great cultures. Most recently, Kerry was President and COO of Rothy’s, leading marketing, merchandising and operations at the wildly popular San Francisco-based shoe company. Kerry was recognized in 2020 by the National Retail Foundation as one of the 5 People Shaping Retail in 2020. Prior to joining Rothy’s, Kerry was CEO of Choose Energy, a Kleiner Perkins-backed energy marketplace. Kerry loves consumer businesses and understanding what is important to the customer and how to build customer-focused businesses. Prior to Choose Energy, Kerry served as COO and CMO of e-tailer ModCloth.com, where she scaled marketing, merchandising, supply chain, customer care, and fulfillment efforts across the US. Before ModCloth, Kerry led marketing and strategy for Walmart.com as CMO and VP of Global Ecommerce. Prior, she served as SVP of Retail and Planning for the Dockers brand at Levi’s.

Kerry is currently on the board of directors at PG&E, Upstart, Gradient, Fernish, Fictiv as well as an executive-in-residence at Acrew Capital. Previously she has served on the boards of BevMo! (2017 - 2020), Choose Energy (2013 - 2016), Weddington Way (2015 - 2017, sold to GAP 2017) and Wirecutter (NY Times) Advisory Board (2017 - 2019). She holds an MBA from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Bob’s technology career spans roles as entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and operating executive. Since 2015 he has taught classes at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Bob served as CEO of Luminate, raising multiple rounds of venture capital, and leading its growth to 30 billion image views per year. As a General Partner with Matrix Partners, Bob invested in numerous startups.

He has served on the Boards of companies which IPO’ed and got acquired by Cisco, HP, IBM, and Yahoo, among others. Bob led Netscape’s famous “browser wars,” as SVP and division GM, managing all browser engineering and product management. While at Netscape, he launched open source pioneer Mozilla, best known for its Firefox browser; Bob has long served on the board of directors at Mozilla. Previously, he held positions at startup Collabra Software, Apple, and Goldman Sachs.

He attended Stanford University, where he earned MBA, MA, and BA degrees, and did graduate studies in Computer Science.

Hugh Molotsi is the founder and CEO of Ujama, a messaging platform for communities that makes it easy for people to help each other. Hugh is a seasoned product and technology leader and an accomplished innovator who has helped launch several disruptive products.

Hugh had a 22-year career at Intuit where his last position was Engineering Fellow and Vice President of Innovation. Hugh worked on QuickBooks and other small business offerings. Hugh led the launch of several new businesses, including QuickBooks Enterprise and Intuit Payments, which deliver over $1B in annual revenue today. Hugh was an inaugural member of Intuit’s Diversity Council, leading to the formation of a dozen employee networks, including Intuit’s faith-based networks. Hugh has been a dedicated supporter of early career development and helped develop Intuit’s Rotational Development Program.

Hugh is the co-author of “The Intrapreneur’s Journey”, a book on how to develop a culture of innovation at large companies. Hugh holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering Technology. Hugh is also an American Leadership Forum senior fellow and a certified leadership development trainer.

Outside work, Hugh serves on the board of Echoing Green, which discovers and invests in emerging social entrepreneurs. He is past president of the Board of Directors of Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY), a nonprofit agency that runs programs for at-risk youth.

Kristin Skogen Lund is CEO of Schibsted. She was previously Director General of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise, EVP at Telenor, CEO of several Schibsted brands, and held positions at the Coca-Cola Company, Unilever and the Norwegian Embassy in Madrid. Further, Kristin has served as president of the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise and as a member of the boards of Ericsson and Orkla, among others. She has also been a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and the ILO Global Commission on the Future of Work. She recently headed the government appointed commision revising the Norwegian pension system. She is the Chairman of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, President of the European Tech Alliance and serves on the board of AutoStore ASA. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon.

Mark Surman has spent three decades building a better internet, from the advent of the web to the rise of artificial intelligence.

As President of Mozilla, a global nonprofit backed technology company that does everything from making Firefox to advocating for a more open, equitable internet, Mark’s current focus is ensuring the various Mozilla organizations work in concert to make trustworthy AI a reality. Mark led the creation of Mozilla.ai (a commercial AI R+D lab) and Mozilla Ventures (an impact venture fund with a strong focus on AI).

Mark was Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation for 15 years. He grew the organization into an international movement-building force, renowned for its fellowships, philanthropy, advocacy, and insights work.

Prior, Mark was the founding Director of telecentre.org, a $26M initiative connecting community technology centers in more than 30 countries. He ran the Commons Group, a boutique consulting firm specializing in open source and social enterprise. And he was awarded the prestigious Shuttleworth Fellowship to explore open source approaches to philanthropy.

Mark’s analysis and opinions have been featured in The Washington Post, NPR, CNN, the BBC, Bloomberg, Fast Company and dozens of other publications. He has delivered keynotes on five continents at major global events, discussing trustworthy AI, open source, and the future of the internet.

Mark serves on the Mozilla Foundation Board and is a past board member at Peer-to-Peer University, World Bank Solutions for Youth Employment Consortium, the Toronto Arts Foundation, Connected Learning Alliance, Telefonica’s Think Big, the Association for Progressive Communications, Wild Canada and rabble.ca.

Mark lives in Toronto. He holds a BA in the History of Community Media from the University of Toronto.

Nabiha Syed is Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, the global nonprofit that does everything from championing trustworthy AI to advocating for a more open, equitable internet.

Nabiha was the Chief Executive Officer of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit that challenges technology to serve the public good. Under her leadership, The Markup’s unique approach was referenced by Congress 21 times, inspired dozens of class action lawsuits, won a national Murrow Award and a Loeb Award, and recognized as “Most Innovative” by FastCompany in 2022.

Prior to The Markup, Nabiha was a highly acclaimed media lawyer. Nabiha’s legal career spanned private practice, the New York Times First Amendment Fellowship, and leading BuzzFeed’s libel and newsgathering matters, including the successful defense of the Steele Dossier litigations. She sits on the board of the Scott Trust, the $1B+ British company that owns The Guardian newspaper, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, the New Press, and serves as an advisor to ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech.

Angela Plohman is Chief Operating Officer of the Mozilla Foundation, one of the world’s most recognizable tech-for-good organizations. She is an experienced nonprofit executive and strategic operations professional with a long track record of building and growing nonprofit organizations and programs.

Based in Montreal, she has spent over twenty years playing key leadership roles in the fields of arts and culture, community building, and technology in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Angela joined Mozilla in 2012. She has played many critical roles since, eventually building up a team that serves as the bedrock of all of Mozilla Foundation’s work. Over the last few years, she has: developed a strategy and a team aimed at helping Mozilla Foundation become an effective, healthy and sustainable movement building organization; and, at the same time, she has played a role in supporting the Board and executive leadership in growing the scope of Mozilla’s efforts. Angela also plays a critical role as the Secretary and Treasurer of multiple Mozilla Boards.

Since 2019, she has also served on the Board of OpenMedia, a community-driven organization that works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. She serves on the Board of the Toronto Biennial of Art, and is also the President of the Board of Le Livart, a non-profit organization whose mission is to democratize access to art and culture, located in a former presbytery in Montreal.

Nicole Wong specializes in assisting high-growth technology companies to develop international privacy, content, and regulatory strategies.

Formerly, Nicole served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration, focused on internet, privacy, and innovation policy. Prior to her time in government, Nicole was Google’s Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and X's (formerly Twitter) Legal Director for Products. She frequently speaks on issues related to law and technology, including five appearances before the U.S. Congress.

She currently chairs the board of Friends of Global Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting citizen and online media projects globally. She also sits on the boards of WITNESS, an organization supporting the use of video to advance human rights; and The Markup, a non-profit investigative news organization covering technology. Nicole currently serves as co-chair of the Digital Freedom Forum, and as an advisor to the AI Now Institute, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, Luminate, Refactor Capital, and the Albright Stonebridge Group.

Brian Behlendorf is the Executive Director of Hyperledger, an open source blockchain software consortium hosted at the Linux Foundation. He also serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Formerly, he was Chief Technology Officer at the World Economic Forum; Founder and Chief Technology Officer, CollabNet, a company focused on bringing open source collaborative software development tools and methodologies into enterprise environments; and an advisor at the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House, in 2009 and 2010.

Brian co-founded and served as the Founding President of the Apache Software Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit that organizes volunteer open source software development projects, around key internet technologies.

Zain Habboo is the Chief Marketing & Mobilization Officer at the International Rescue Committee where she manages an award winning large global communications and marketing team. Previously, Zain served as the social change agency Fenton’s Chief Digital & Creative Officer. Before joining Fenton, Zain was Senior Director of Digital and Multimedia Strategy at the UN Foundation, where she coordinated digital, video, photo, and mobile strategies across the organization. During her time at the UN Foundation, there were many groundbreaking accomplishments, including helping launching the now global phenomenon #GivingTuesday, creating viral memes (the #unselfie) and social media innovations (#Instacorps), as well as global convergences such as the Social Good Summit and digital surge days. Zain was born in Iraq, raised in Jordan, and educated in the U.K., and brings a much-valued global approach and cultural understanding to her work. Zain is conversational in Arabic and French and has worked with organizations around the world on issues ranging from girls’ and women’s empowerment to climate change. Zain serves as a member of the board at the Mozilla Foundation and is a board member at PBS’s AmDoc POV series, she formerly served on the UN Foundation’s “Girl Up” board as well as the non-profit Too Young To Wed. Zain is a Global Human Development Fellow at Georgetown University and was a top finalist for the Washington Women in PR “Woman of the Year” award for 2020.

Amy serves as Chief Administrative & Legal Officer for Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a space and data company that images the Earth every day to make global change visible, accessible, and actionable, and one of the first publicly traded Public Benefit Corporations. She previously served as Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary at Mozilla Corporation and Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at X (formerly Twitter), along with prior roles at Google and Bingham McCutchen LLP.

Amy’s career has focused on enabling open data and the advancement of an open internet, and she loves supporting organizations, like the Mozilla Foundation, in scaling with a mission and values-centric culture.

Raffi believes that when technology is used both strategically and intentionally, it has the power to impact people’s lives — and the world — for the better. This belief has guided him throughout his career as an engineer and tech leader, and drives his work enabling technological innovation across and beyond Emerson Collective.

Over the past decades, Raffi has helped companies and organizations build teams and tech infrastructure designed for impact. He was an executive at X (formerly Twitter) running a global engineering team focused on making X available and performant for the world. At Uber, he helped start and run the self-driving efforts tasked with building and deploying the first-ever self-driving and passenger carrying fleet in record time. His experiences at these industry- and world- changing companies gave him deep insight into the importance of thoughtful design and implementation within the social media, artificial intelligence, and commercial landscapes.

When Trump was elected in 2016, Raffi pivoted to put his technological know-how to use in the political realm. He joined the Democratic National Committee, as their first-ever Chief Technology Officer, to create a unique team fused with campaign and industry veterans, to secure the party after its breach by Russian state actors in the last presidential election, and to entirely revamp its tech infrastructure — all to enable Democrats to win the next few elections.

Over his four years at Emerson Collective, Raffi has brought his unique ability to harness tech talent to the social sector. He works across all teams — and with Emerson partners — to consider data, tools, and product design with the aim of empowering them to achieve their goals, and making EC a truly data-curious organization along the way.

Raffi is also the host of the Technically Optimistic podcast where he explores the intersection of technology with our society. He's had actors, senators, congress people, civil society directors, a nobel laureate, and industry professionals as guests. In its inaugural season, Technically Optimistic ranked #2 on Apple Podcasts technology list while reaching tens of thousands of unique listeners on the release day of each episode. Technically Optimistic is now also available as a Substack newsletter while Season 2 of the podcast is in production for release in early 2024.

Raffi is a graduate of M.I.T. He currently serves on numerous boards including TUMO, an Armenia-based organization focused on bringing cutting edge STEAM education, through an innovative free after-school program, to 50,000 kids in centers in Armenia, Lebanon, France, Switzerland, Germany, Ukraine, Albania, and others; the Community Tech Alliance, who works to break the cycle of time-intensive patchwork solutions that get rebuilt by progressive organizations election cycle to cycle; and Medic, a nonprofit organization founded to improve health and health outcomes in the world’s hardest-to-reach communities.

Edwin Macharia is a co-Founder of Axum, an Afrocentric impact firm dedicated to developing platforms and investments that deliver climate-positive growth, inclusive socio-economic development and technological advancement in Africa and the Middle East. In addition to leading the firm, he advises governments, bi-lateral and multilateral donors, investors, foundations, NGOs and corporations on a range of issues including strategy, operational efficiency and programmatic implementation. Edwin has held several roles spanning many sectors. Most recently, he served as the Global Managing Partner at Dalberg Advisors where he spent 16 years building the firm’s footprint, talent and capabilities across the globe. Before Dalberg, he was at the Clinton Foundation and McKinsey & Company. Edwin holds a BA from Amherst College and currently serves on the Boards of The Nature Conservancy, Nabo Capital and Prudential Kenya. He is an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow, was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and named as one of the Top 10 African Leaders by Forbes in 2015.

Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. Dr. Nelson served as deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. As a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and a science and technology policy advisor, she has provided guidance to local, state, and federal governments, legislators, civil society, multilateral and international organizations, and others. She is the author of several books, most recently The Social Life of DNA, an award-winning exploration of the social implications of direct-to-consumer genetic technologies. Dr. Nelson is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2022, she was selected by Nature to its international list of ten people who shaped science. She was included in the inaugural TIME100 list of the most influential people in AI and appointed as the US-nominated representative to the United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on AI in 2023. Dr. Nelson brings deep technical and policy experience to the Mozilla Board, at a time when we’re investing in both.

Helen Turvey (King) has been at the Shuttleworth Foundation for over a decade, driving its evolution, from the traditional funder to the current co-investment Fellowship model. She is responsible for the Shuttleworth Foundation’s strategic direction and daily executive leadership.

Helen was educated in Europe, South America and the Middle East. With 15 years of experience working with international NGOs and agencies, she is driven by the belief that openness has benefits beyond the obvious. It also offers huge value to education, economies and communities, in both the developed and developing worlds.

As well as holding various board positions, Helen is a lover of musicals and has smallholding ambitions (currently 3 hens and a seasonal veggie patch).

Before Mozilla Ventures, Mohamed was the Deputy CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), which invests in independent media around the world providing the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies. He continues to serve on the Investment Committee of MDIF.

Mohamed spent nearly a decade at Al Jazeera, where he started the New Media department which focused on innovation and product development across internet, mobile, and social technologies. He then served as the Head of Online at Al Jazeera English where he led the team that produced the award-winning coverage of the Arab revolutions in 2011.

In 2005 Mohamed founded QatarLiving.com (acquired in 2012), a listings and community website that quickly grew to be the largest site in Qatar. He also co-founded Signalnoi.se, a social analytics platform for newsrooms that won the Knight News Challenge.

Mohamed previously served as a board member of the Mozilla Foundation, Media Development Investment, as the Board Chair of Global Voices Online, the Advisory Board of Creative Commons, and was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Social Media.

He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at the University of the Witwatersrand and a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

Adam Mullinax has over 15 years of experience in finance with the past 14 years in private equity and venture capital, investing over $300 million across a wide range of industries and stages. Most recently, he was a partner at a $50 million early-stage fund with roots at MIT, where he drove the fundraising process and led sourcing, diligence, structuring, and monitoring of all investments. Additionally, he serves as Director of Finance for the Center of Complex Interventions, a non-profit focused on applying academic research and principles to community health issues.

Previously, he was a Vice President with Ambrosia Investments, a growth equity firm focused on the food & agriculture sectors. He also has prior investment experience at Beechwood Capital and Continental Grain, as well as investment banking experience at Moelis & Company and JP Morgan.

He holds a B.S. in Finance from Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Jane Silber, CEO of Mozilla.ai, is an accomplished technology executive, business leader and Board member. Her experience spans R&D, product development, open source communities and businesses, and is complemented by a strong background in company scaling, general management, distributed teams and corporate governance. With deep expertise in technology and AI, she brings a well-rounded perspective to leadership and innovation.

She previously served as CEO of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system. Joining as Chief Operating Officer (COO), she played a key role in shaping the company’s strategy, operations and growth. As CEO, she led Canonical through a period of expansion, driving adoption and commercial success of Ubuntu across cloud computing, enterprise IT, and consumer markets.

Before Canonical, Jane held executive roles with General Dynamics C4 Systems in the US, and spent several years focused on R&D and new product development with Teijin Ltd in Yokohama, Japan.

She maintains a diverse portfolio of non-executive Board members, including past and present roles with Diffblue (AI-powered software development), Induction Healthcare (technology for operational efficiency and improved patient outcomes), Weaveworks (cloud-native container management tools), and VONQ (recruitment marketing solutions), amongst others. She also serves as a member of the Mozilla Ventures Investment Committee.

Jane holds a BS in Mathematics from Haverford College, an MS in Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA from Oxford University. She lives in London, England.

Julie Belião is Senior Director of Product Innovation at Mozilla.ai, where she leads product strategy and execution, ensuring the development of AI solutions that prioritize transparency and trust. With over 15 years of experience, she has worked at the intersection of AI, product strategy, and responsible innovation, focusing on bridging the gap between humans and machines to build technology that enhances human capabilities rather than replacing them.

Before joining Mozilla.ai, Julie held leadership roles at Google, Unbabel, and Defined.ai, working on AI-driven product development, scaling operations, and bringing emerging technologies to new markets. Her work has spanned machine learning, language technologies, and ethical AI data, helping companies navigate market expansion, AI quality, and the integration of human expertise with automated systems. She has also contributed to national research initiatives at CNRS and IRCAM, focusing on under-resourced languages, speech processing, and computational linguistics, applying research to real-world AI applications.

Julie holds a PhD in Computer Science and Linguistics and remains committed to advancing AI in ways that are both innovative and accountable, ensuring technology serves people without compromising transparency or integrity.

David Manzano is a seasoned tech professional with over 20 years of experience leading AI-driven innovation, data strategy, and software development. He specializes in driving AI adoption, and leading large, globally distributed engineering projects. Holding a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, he has successfully applied AI technologies across multiple industries, including retail, finance, healthcare, and telecommunications.

Currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla.ai, he leads AI engineering teams in developing open-source, trustworthy AI tools. Previously, as SVP of Engineering and Data at Koa Health, he led the development of digital mental health products. His career also includes key roles at Deloitte and Ericsson where he defined AI strategies, built scalable platforms, and developed AI-powered products.