Mozilla Firefox

Asa Dotzler

Asa Dotzler is best known for his work as community coordinator for several far-reaching Mozilla programs. He was founder of Mozilla’s Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing Program, which grew under his leadership from just a few contributors to tens of thousands of volunteers today. Dotzler is also co-founder of Spread Firefox, where he spearheaded Mozilla’s open source marketing program. He has been an active member of the Mozilla community since 1998. After volunteering with the project for more than a year, Dotzler joined "staff@mozilla.org", the leadership team for the Mozilla organization. He played a key role in delivering products including the release of Mozilla 1.0 and the release of the Mozilla Firefox Web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application. Today, he works with Mozilla’s technology evangelism team, helping people understand, build, and benefit from the open Web.

Blog: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/
Twitter: @asadotzler

Brendan Eich

Brendan Eich is CTO of Mozilla and widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He also co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect. Eich helped launch the award winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004. Today, Eich’s central focus is guiding the future technical work to keep Mozilla vital and competitive. In the greater Web community, Eich remains dedicated to driving innovation in Internet technology with his work in JavaScript and with the Mozilla platform. In August 2005, Eich became CTO of Mozilla. He has also been a board member of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. He holds a bachelor of science in math and computer science from Santa Clara University and a master of science in computer science from the University of Illinois. Eich and his wife have four children.

Blog: http://brendaneich.com/
Twitter: @brendaneich

Madhava Enros

As Mozilla’s resident designer at small, Madhava Enros spearheads the design effort to adapt Firefox’s user-experience to mobile devices. With more than 10 years in interaction design, Madhava has helped design everything from IBM’s database configuration tools to the Firefox add-ons manager. He is a frequent speaker on issues of mobile interface and interaction design, particularly around the unique challenges of building for the mobile Web. Madhava has a degree in human factors engineering from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto where he is an influential member of the city’s Indo-Finno-Franco-Canadian community.

Blog: http://madhava.com/egotism/

Gary Kovacs

Gary Kovacs is the CEO of Mozilla Corporation with the responsibility for leading the overall direction of the organization and the Firefox Web browser. Prior to joining Mozilla, Gary held senior leadership roles as Senior VP of Markets, Solutions & Products at Sybase (through its acquisition by SAP earlier this year), as General Manager and VP of Mobile & Devices at Adobe and as VP of Product Marketing at Macromedia (through its acquisition by Adobe). Previously, he led the successful creation and growth of Zi Corporation, a company specializing in embedded software and services for mobile and consumer devices. Prior to Zi Corporation, Gary spent 10 years at IBM in leadership positions in product management, sales, marketing and operations within the global software division. He holds a bachelor of commerce and an MBA with distinction, from the University of Calgary.

Dan Mills

Dan Mills is currently the lead for the Account Manager project in Mozilla Labs. Prior to working on general identity and Account Manager, Dan was the lead engineer for Mozilla’s Weave project, which turned into Firefox Sync. He joined Mozilla in 2006 to work on Firefox 3, and before that worked for Novell after their acquisition of the open source startup Ximian. Dan grew up in sunny Venezuela, but has lived in the US since he went to Duke University to study computer science and economics.

Blog: http://blog.sandmill.org/
Twitter: @Thunder

Johnathan Nightingale

Johnathan Nightingale is Mozilla’s Director of Firefox Engineering and helps an incredible community of people build the best Web browser on the planet. He often speaks on Web security and Firefox development and has a passion for the open web that grows tiresome at dinner parties. Educated in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, he began his career at IBM hacking on WebSphere and then moved into their user-centered design group before joining Mozilla in 2007 to make the web a better, safer place. He lives just outside of Toronto, Canada in a home full of books and baby toys.

Tristan Nitot

Tristan Nitot is the founder and president of Mozilla Europe, the international affiliate of the Mozilla Foundation, home of the Firefox Web browser. Under his leadership, Firefox has reached 50 percent market share in countries like Germany and Poland. He has contributed to Mozilla since 2001. With the help of Mozilla Europe, Firefox is translated into more than 75 languages worldwide. Tristan Nitot was with Netscape from 1997 to 2003, first in charge of Product Marketing in Southern Europe and then Technology Evangelist, managing developer relations in Europe. Tristan has also helped launch the OpenWeb.eu.org project in 2002, aiming at promoting Web standards and accessibility.

Blog: http://www.Standblog.org
Twitter: @Nitot

Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters is Head of Developer Engagement at Mozilla. She is passionate about open source software and educates companies and communities on how open source software is changing the software industry. She is a compelling speaker who engages her audiences during and after her presentations and frequently speaks on business aspects of open source software. In addition to Mozilla, Stormy is an advisor for HFOSS, IntraHealth Open and Open Source for America, as well as founder and president of Kids on Computers, a nonprofit organization setting up computer labs in developing countries. Stormy joined Mozilla from the GNOME Foundation where she served as executive director. Previously, she worked at OpenLogic where she set up their OpenLogic Expert Community. Stormy graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in Computer Science.

Paul Rouget

Paul Rouget is a Technology Evangelist at Mozilla and is instrumental in combining the latest and greatest open Web technologies. His goal is to push the boundaries of the Web and ensure that it continues to develop into an open and accessible platform. Paul works closely with the platform development team at Mozilla to explore how new technologies can continue to improve Firefox. He creates beautiful demos using HTML5 to illustrate where the Web can go. He is one of the authors of the hacks.mozilla.org blogs and @mozhacks Twitter handle. He has been involved with the Mozilla project since 2003 as both a volunteer and as staff.

Justin Scott

As Mozilla’s Add-on Ninja, Justin Scott works to improve the add-ons experience for users and developers. Justin developed his first Firefox add-on in 2006 and soon after began volunteering with the development of the Mozilla Add-ons website. Justin earned his B.S. from Louisiana State University and enjoys miniature golf, efficient traffic control, and breaking the fourth wall.

Blog: http://blog.fligtar.com/
Twitter: @fligtar

Todd Simpson

Todd Simpson is the Chief of Innovation at Mozilla, the developers of the Firefox Web browser, where he is working with the Mozilla community to keep the Web open and accessible. Todd loves building products and businesses around leading edge technologies. He has founded, built, and run numerous companies. Call Genie went public in Canada, Worldplay Networks continues to push the boundaries of video, EZone Networks was sold to Clubcom, and Jasomi was sold to Ditech Networks, a Nasdaq company that Todd ended up running. Todd also led research and development efforts at QSound Labs and Zi Corporation. Todd lives hockey, loves the outdoors, and is enjoying life in Silicon Valley. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science and has authored numerous patents and papers.

Blog: http://tgsimpson.com/
Twitter: @toddsimpson

Ragavan Srinivasan

Ragavan Srinivasan is a Product Manager for Mozilla where he manages product strategy and product roadmap for the Firefox Sync, Firefox Home and Mozilla services initiatives. He works closely with the Firefox, mobile product, user interface, and engineering teams to integrate technologies and implement features. As product manager he is currently working to integrate Sync functionality directly into all browsers on the Mozilla platforms. Ragavan joined Mozilla in 2009 as the product manager for Weave. Ragavan helped guide Weave from its experimental phase within Mozilla Labs to a launched service, including the server component as well as the Firefox and Firefox mobile add-ons. When not building products, Ragavan spends time being a happy dad and husband and volunteering for Kids on Computers: www.kidsoncomputers.org

Jay Sullivan

Jay Sullivan is Vice President of Products at Mozilla where he drives product strategy and leads the product management team. Jay joined Mozilla Labs in 2007 to help define and launch the Weave project. Jay became Vice President of Mobile in 2008 and led the design, development and launch of the Firefox mobile Web browser. Previously, Jay was co-founder and VP of Products at PocketThis, a mobile software applications and tools provider. He has also held management and software engineering positions at Oracle, Information Resources and Firefly Network. Jay has been granted three U.S. patents for his work on mobile software and personalization. Jay is a graduate of Yale University.

Blog: http://dailythemes.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @jaysullivan

Mark Surman

Mark Surman is in the business of connecting things: people, ideas, everything. A community technology activist for almost 20 years, Mark is currently the executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, with a focus on inventing new ways to promote an open, participatory Internet. On the side, Mark convenes conversations about ’open everything’ in his home town of Toronto and around the world. Before joining Mozilla, Mark was an open philanthropy fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation in South Africa, he invented new ways to apply open source thinking to social innovation. Earlier, he was the founding director of telecentre.org, a $26 million effort to network community technology activists in countries around the world. Mark has also served as president of the Commons Group, Director of Content and Community at Web Networks and senior advisor to the Volunteer @ction Online grants program team. Mark’s first real job was training social activists to make their own documentaries in the early 1990s. When he finds time, Mark likes to write about community, technology and changing the world. He’s proud to have written things like From the Ground Up (a nice picture book about why telecentres matter), Commonspace (FT.com book about web 2.0, written before there was web 2.0) and Appropriating Technology for Social Change (SSRC research paper about activism on the Internet). When he was still an idealistic student, he wrote From VTR to Cyberspace, an illustrated essay about Gramsci, community television and the Internet. Now his idealistic ramblings appear on his blog.

Blog: http://commonspace.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @msurman

Matthew Zeier

Matthew Zeier is the Director of IT Infrastructure and Operations at Mozilla, where he leads a global team of more than 40 who manage Mozilla’s networks and servers including six data centers, and keep Mozilla’s Web properties and services online. Matthew joined Mozilla in March of 2006 as the very first network engineer.

Matthew has been tinkering with computers since he was a kid when his father would bring home an Apple II during summers. At age 9 he found copy of Compute! in the neighbor's trash and started computer programming. In college, Matthew started his passion for IT when he volunteered to do tech support for a local ISP. Since then, Matthew has worked as a network engineer at InteleNet Communications, Inktomi Communications and 3Com, among others before joining Mozilla.

Matthew studied Computer Science, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He lives in the East Bay with his wife and two kids and is an active road cyclist.