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Oscar is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in designing products, services, and platforms that have a positive impact on society. Born in New York City and raised in Bogota, Colombia, he has been living in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Oscar served as the VP of Design at The Athletic, which is part of the New York Times family. He led a team of talented designers who worked on creating the world's best sports journalism and entertainment experience. Before that, he was a Product Design Manager at Facebook Reality Lab, where he contributed to the development of a new AR product. Oscar spent 15 years at Microsoft, where he worked on some exciting projects such as HoloLens, XBOX, Kinect, wearables, connected vehicles, and smart home technology. During his tenure at Microsoft, he was also part of the "Inclusive Design" and "Ethics & Society" teams.

Oscar has been awarded over 20 patents.

Earlier in his career, Oscar worked as a Creative Director at AT&T, InfoSpace Mobile, and Clique, where he designed digital experiences for companies like T-Mobile, Orange, Sprint, Cingular, Forbes, Renault, People, Cosmo Magazine, Wallpaper, and the Wall Street Journal.

Oscar is an active member of several design organizations and has served as the Design Director for the Computer Human Interaction conference (CHI). He is also an affiliate lecturer at the University of Washington's School of Art, Art History, and Design, and has taught at NYU ITP and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Oscar Murillo

Eric Rescorla

Christina Lang is the current VP of Marketing for North America at [Mozilla](/org/mozilla). Christina has over 10 years of experience in the marketing field with a focus on strategic marketing operations. Christina has previously worked as the Director of Strategic Marketing Operations at [Twitch](/org/twitch) and as the Strategy, Planning and Operations Lead, Integrity Marketing at Facebook. Christina has also held positions at [Outbrain](/org/outbrain), [Interactive One](/org/interactive-one), TalentMania LLC., and AOL.

Christina Lang started their educational career by attending Kings Park High School. Christina then went on to study music business at [New York University](/org/nyu), where they earned a Bachelor of Music. After graduation, Christina Lang completed the altMBA program.

Their manager is Lindsey Shepard, CMO. They work with and Robin Karakash - VP Marketing, Europe.

Christina Lang

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.

Robin Karakash

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.

Lindsey O’Brien

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.

Kerry W. Cooper

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.

Vicky Chin

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.

Andrew Overholt

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 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 Twitter 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.

Brandon Borrman

Pranshu Khanna is a Mozilla Reps Council member and was previously a Design Lead at WeHear Hearing Solutions and the Chief Technology Officer and Design Lead at GirlScript Foundation. Pranshu has also founded Paradox Gamers and was an Intel AI For Youth Trainer at Shashwat Foundation.

Pranshu Khanna completed their Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering from BITS Edu Campus: BABARIA INSTITUTE. Pranshu has also completed their Grade 12 from National Institute of Open Schooling and their High School from Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School.

Pranshu Khanna

Ashley Boyd is the Vice President of Advocacy and Engagement at the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation. Ashley has over 20 years of experience in public engagement, facilitation, and project management. Prior to joining [Mozilla](/org/mozilla), Ashley was the Senior Program Director at AmericaSpeaks, where they managed large-scale public engagement projects on critical issues at the local, state, and national level. Ashley also served as an Independent Consultant for SEWA Bharat and Vidhayak Sansad, and as a Senior Associate at M+R. In their current role at [Mozilla](/org/mozilla), Ashley leads the Foundation's advocacy efforts to ensure that the internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all.

Ashley Boyd has a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Speech Communication and Rhetoric from the [University of Maryland](/org/university-of-maryland), and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Speech Communication and Rhetoric from [Willamette University](/org/malone-brown-productions).

Ashley Boyd reports to Mark Surman, President, [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation. Some of their coworkers include J. Bob Alotta - VP, Global Programs, Angela Plohman - EVP, [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation.

Ashley Boyd

Matt Koidin is the VP and General Manager of Pocket at [Mozilla](/org/mozilla). Matt was previously the CTO of Pocket from June 2011 to April 2017, and was a member of the founding team. Pocket was acquired by [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) in 2017.

From January 2011 to December 2018, Matt was the Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees for Presidio Knolls School. Matt was also the Director Product Development for Smartix International from October 2001 to July 2003, and the Co-Founder & Director of System Engineering for Justarrive, Inc. from June 1999 to July 2001.

Matt Koidin has a MBA from Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business, a BS in Computer Science from [Stanford University](/org/stanford), and a High School diploma from St. John's Prep in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Matt Koidin reports to Mitchell Baker, CEO & Chairwoman, [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation. They work with Eric Muhlheim - CFO, Imo Udom - SVP, Innovation Ecosystems, and Mark Surman - President, [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation.

Matt Koidin

Mohamed Nanabhay

Navrina Singh is a board member of the Mozilla Foundation and has also worked with companies such as [Credo AI](/org/credo-ai), [World Economic Forum](/org/world-economic-forum), and Microsoft. Navrina has a background in product management and has been working to bring new SaaS services to Microsoft's enterprise customers. Her focus has been on product strategy, roadmap, GTM, and business planning.

Navrina Singh has a Masters in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MBA from the University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, and a Bachelor of Engineering (BS) in Electronics and telecommunication from the College of Engineering Pune.

Navrina Singh

Laura Chambers is a board member of the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Corporation and was previously with [Airbnb](/org/airbnb) and eBay Marketplaces. Laura has been with [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) since July 2018 and is responsible for helping guests find amazing, high quality unique homes as well as helping hosts have a wonderful time and experience with their guests. Prior to their work with [Mozilla](/org/mozilla), Laura was with eBay Marketplaces from September 2014 to March 2016 where they led the global team responsible for improving positive experiences and creating an increased sense of 'trust' between buyers and sellers. Laura was also with Patelco Credit Union from November 2017 to January 2021 and Advance Australia from January 2011 to December 2012.

Laura Chambers has an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a BComm/BA from the [University of Melbourne](/org/university-of-melbourne).

Laura Chambers

Lidya Christina is a user experience research consultant who has successfully executed and delivered five main research plans. Lidya has also worked as a process improvement specialist and an assistant product manager. In their current position, they are a member of the Mozilla Reps Council.

Lidya Christina has a Bachelor's Degree in Education of Economy from State University of Jakarta (Universitas Negeri Jakarta) and certification in React Native Mobile Development from [Binar Academy](/org/binar-academy). Lidya is currently working as a Junior React Native Developer.

Lidya Christina

Francesca Minelli is a [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Rep and the council member for [Mozilla](/org/mozilla). Francesca has worked in various fields including fundraising, human resources, and project coordination. Francesca has a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the [University of Glasgow](/org/university-of-glasgow) and a Master's degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester.

Francesca Minelli has a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from the [University of Glasgow](/org/university-of-glasgow). Francesca also has a Master's degree in International Studies and Diplomacy from Università degli Studi di Trieste, and a Bachelor's degree in International Studies and Diplomacy from the same school.

Francesca Minelli

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.

Nicholas Grammater

In her role as Mozilla’s VP of Employee Experience, Mardi leverages the collective impact of the People Business Partners, Learning, Internal Communications, and Events and Workplace Experience teams to set and drive an employee experience agenda aimed at enabling and inspiring the diverse, multi-generational, global team of Mozillians to do their very best work.

Mardi joined Mozilla in June of 2012 with over a decade of experience in HR operations and communications. She’s a curious and tenacious systems thinker who believes deeply that 90% of the work lies in problem identification.

Prior to Mozilla, Mardi led HR Operations, Benefits and Immigration at the creative agency Razorfish.

Mardi Douglass

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.

Carlos Torres

J. Bob Alotta is a veteran movement builder and nonprofit executive working at the intersection of technology and communities.

Prior to joining [Mozilla](/org/mozilla), Bob led the [Astraea](/org/astraea) Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a global foundation based in New York City that provides critical resources to LGBTQI+ organizations and individuals around the world. Over eight years, Bob quintupled the global footprint of the organization which makes more grants in the global south and east than any other funder in their sector. She built a funding program aimed specifically at strengthening movements by adding extra support for digital security, data use, and internet freedom to otherwise “non-tech” grants. Bob worked with major funders to bring money into [Astraea](/org/astraea) -- and to influence what else these funders invested in worldwide. And, Bob built bridges between the LGBTQI+ and digital rights worlds.

It was through this last bit of work that Bob met [Mozilla](/org/mozilla): At MozFest and as a [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) fellowship host organization. Now serving as Vice President, Global Programs at [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation, Bob brings their experience both building movements, and building bridges across movements. Bob works with allies across the movement to develop clear goals and real momentum on issues like trustworthy AI; helps [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) fellows and awardees become stronger community organizers and leaders; and grows the diversity and geographical scope across our programs, with an emphasis on expanding our work outside North America.

J. Bob Alotta

Mikal Lewis

Rebecca Weiss

Emma Malysz

Annelise Scudder

Jackie Lu

Mark is Executive Director of [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation, the global nonprofit that does everything from making Firefox to standing up for issues like online privacy. Mark is focused on fueling the broader internet health movement by working with citizens, technologists and civic leaders around the world. Mark is also part of the team that develops [Mozilla](/org/mozilla)’s annual Internet Health Report.

Mark Surman

As [Mozilla](/org/mozilla)’s Vice President of Business 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](/org/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](/org/mozilla)'s core, adjacent and conceptual product lines.

Prior to [Mozilla](/org/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](/org/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](/org/tripadvisor) in 2011; [Tripadvisor](/org/tripadvisor) went public later that same year. Katherine earned her MBA and BA from [Stanford University](/org/stanford).

Katherine Bose

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](/org/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](/org/intuit) Payments, which deliver over $1B in annual revenue today. Hugh was an inaugural member of [Intuit](/org/intuit)’s Diversity Council, leading to the formation of a dozen employee networks, including [Intuit](/org/intuit)’s faith-based networks. Hugh has been a dedicated supporter of early career development and helped develop [Intuit](/org/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](/org/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.

Hugh Molotsi

As Chief Product Officer, Steve is responsible for leading our product teams — setting a product vision and strategy that accelerates the growth and impact of Mozilla’s existing products. Additionally, he is responsible for setting the foundation for new product development during a period of time where there is a massive need for software that is unambiguously good for the world to be built at scale. He is leading a team looking to solve some of the internet’s biggest challenges — openness, accessibility, safety, privacy, security, interoperability, individual agency and more.

Previously, Steve worked at Twitter as a Vice President of Product for their Machine Learning and Data platforms. Prior to that, Steve led Product Management, Design and Research in Facebook’s Infrastructure organization. He also spent almost 14 years at Microsoft where he was responsible for the Windows third-party software ecosystems and held leadership roles in Windows IoT, Visual Studio and the Technical Computing Group. Additionally, Steve has held a variety of engineering roles at small and medium-sized companies in the Valley in spaces like developer tools, endpoint security, mobile computing and professional services.

Steve studied Aerospace Engineering at San Jose University and holds an MBA from the University of Washington.

Steve Teixeira

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.

Imo Udom

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.

Eric Muhlheim

As VP of Data, Dan leads [Mozilla](/org/mozilla)'s data engineering, data science, and machine learning groups. He also leads engineering operations, IT, [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Rally, and Kaala.

Prior to [Mozilla](/org/mozilla), Dan was an early and long-tenured employee at [Etsy](/org/etsy). As the first principal engineer at the company, Dan worked on everything a little bit, but his most notable contributions were in infrastructure, search, and recommendations systems. He has been on the founding teams at several startups and has worked in data at [Stripe](/org/stripe) and [Mailchimp](/org/mailchimp).

Dan holds a BS in computer science from [Cornell University](/org/cornell-university). 

Dan Mckinley

Angela Plohman is an experienced nonprofit executive and strategic operations professional with a long track record of building and growing nonprofit organizations and programs. She has spent close to two decades playing key leadership roles in the fields of art, culture and open source technology. She joined [Mozilla](/org/mozilla), one of the world’s most recognizable tech-for-good organizations, in 2012.

Angela Plohman

As Chief People Officer, Kristen leads all areas of HR and Organizational Development at Mozilla Corporation including Recruiting, Total Rewards, Learning and Development, Culture and Engagement, Client support, Workplace Resources and People Operations.

Previously, Kristen provided interim support and leadership to companies in all areas of people business including, talent acquisition, compensation and strategic business partnering. Prior to that, Kristen was Chief People Officer at Hearsay Systems, a mid-sized startup with offices around the world. She also spent more than five years at Netflix where she supported a variety of teams including a two year assignment scaling the Netflix culture to Amsterdam, their first office outside the U.S..

Kristen lives in San Francisco and is passionate about travel and exploring new places and cultures. She also serves on the board of The Orchard at Altapass, a non-profit focused on preserving the land, history and culture of a small slice of Appalachia on the Blue Ridge parkway.

Kristen Trubey

Yuliana Reyna Jiménez

Ruwan Ranganath Senarathne

Wambui Kinya

Karim Lakhani

Brian Behlendorf

Helen Turvey

Bob Lisbonne

Nicole Wong

Mitchell Baker co-founded the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Project to support the open, innovative web and ensure it continues offering opportunities for everyone. As CEO of [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Corporation, Mitchell is focused on accelerating the growth levers for the core Firefox browser product and platform, while investing in innovative solutions to mitigate the biggest challenges facing the internet.

As Chairwoman of [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) for the last two decades, Mitchell Baker has been responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide, collective of employees and volunteers who are building the internet as a global public resource, open and accessible to all. Mitchell is deeply engaged in developing product offerings that promote the mission of empowering individuals. She also guides the overall scope and direction of [Mozilla](/org/mozilla)’s mission. Mitchell has written the key documents that set out [Mozilla](/org/mozilla)'s enduring mission and commitments -- the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Public License in 1998, the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Manifesto in 2007 and the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Manifesto Addendum -- also known as the Pledge for a Healthy Internet -- in 2018.

Mitchell is a strong advocate for the open internet, open source, and the importance of connecting technology to its impact on individuals and society. She is highly regarded as one of the pioneers of the web and bringing the open internet to consumers. She was instrumental in Netscape’s decision in 1998 to release its source code to the public. This later led to the release of the Firefox browser and the creation of the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Foundation as a global technology force that spans software product development, educational initiatives, and participatory movements. After co-founding the [Mozilla](/org/mozilla) Project, Mitchell served as its general manager and CEO from 1999 until January 2008, when the organization’s rapid growth encouraged her to split her responsibilities and add a CEO.

Mitchell is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Oxford Internet Institute and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. She is an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate with the Open Agriculture Initiative, and a Board Member of OpenMRS, Inc., which develops open source medical records systems for use in resource-constrained environments. She co-chaired the U.S. Department of Commerce Digital Economy Board of Advisors from its inception in March 2016 until August 2017, served on the United Nations High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, and the ICANN High Level Panel on Global Internet Cooperation and Governance Mechanisms. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Mitchell received her B.A. in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley and her J.D. from Berkeley Law.

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