Mozilla.ai

John Dickerson is CEO of Mozilla.ai. He brings a wealth of experience in scaling startups, developing practical and robust machine learning methods, deploying AI-based products into the enterprise, as well as providing broad AI/ML thought leadership in industry, academia, non-profits, and governments.

Previously, John was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Arthur as well as a tenured professor at the University of Maryland in the Washington, DC area.

• At Arthur, he helped scale the company to 50+ employees, a presence in NYC, DC, and the US west coast, and $55 million raised from seed through Series B financing. Arthur develops industry-leading technology in data drift detection and mitigation, bias detection and mitigation, GenAI firewall features such as jailbreak and PII leakage detection, and explainability. Arthur’s ML-based products are deployed at some of the largest regulated enterprises in the US and worldwide.
• At Maryland, he founded and led a large lab researching the intersection of ML and economics, with a core focus of designing incentives that promote “good” participation in complex systems. That lab produced 16 PhD graduates and secured $10M+ in funding from NIST, NSA, DARPA, ARPA-E, NIH, NSF – including an NSF CAREER award – in addition to industry funding.

He has worked extensively on theoretical and empirical approaches to organ exchange where his work has set US-wide policy; worldwide blood donation markets with Meta; game-theoretic approaches to counter-terrorism and negotiation, where his models have been deployed; and market design problems in industry (e.g., online advertising) through various startups.

John holds a BS in mathematics and a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He splits his time between Seattle, Washington, USA and Western Europe.

Alejandro Gonzalez is VP of Engineering at Mozilla.ai, where he leads the development of the company’s AI products, platform, and agent ecosystem. His work focuses on building scalable, privacy-first systems that enable developers and organizations to create with trust, transparency, and control.

Alejandro brings over 15 years of experience leading high-impact engineering teams and developing open, production-grade platforms. Before joining Mozilla.ai, he served as Chief Technology Officer at TeamSatchel, where he oversaw the transformation of the company’s technology stack and the modernization of its core products, helping the organization scale its reach and reliability.

Earlier in his career, Alejandro held engineering leadership roles across startups and technology companies, building teams focused on distributed systems and developer experience.

He is passionate about open-source software, human-centered AI, and building teams that combine technical excellence with social responsibility.

Raffi Krikorian is Chief Technology Officer at Mozilla, where he leads efforts to build trustworthy technology that serves the public interest and strengthens human agency. A long-time member of the Mozilla community - serving on the Mozilla Foundation Board since 2023, Mozilla.ai’s Board since 2024, and the Mozilla.org Board since its inception - Raffi brings a record of impact across technology, politics, media, and philanthropy.

He previously served as CTO of Emerson Collective, where he focused on how technology and data can be used to drive solutions that promote social good; as the first CTO of the Democratic National Committee, where he built the technology, data, and security infrastructure that supported Democratic candidates nationwide; as Director of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet; and as Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, where he designed and scaled the systems that powered Twitter’s global platform.

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

Mark is President of Mozilla, a non profit that works with companies and communities around the world to ensure the internet is built for people, not for profit. Mozilla's double bottom line portfolio includes the public benefit companies that make Firefox, Thunderbird and open source AI developer tools; a venture fund that invests in double bottom line tech companies; and a global foundation which backs the work of artists, educators and builders. Mark works across this whole portfolio to ensure Mozilla's people and resources are aimed at bending tech — and the tech industry — in a direction that serves all of humanity.

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, launching projects including Common Voice, the world's largest open source voice data set, and the Mozilla Festival, a yearly conference that brings together technologists, activists, artists, and others to collaboratively shape a healthier and more just digital future.

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 serves on the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation Boards, and on the Boards of Ushahidi, a global not-for-profit technology company that develops integrated tools and services to enable people to generate solutions and mobilize communities for good, and ROOST, a non-profit building open source tools that aim to radically improve the state of trust and safety across the tech industry. He is a professor of practice in the MacMaster University Masters in Public Policy program, and is engaged as a writer, speaker and thinker in global conversations about open source, trustworthy AI and the future of the internet.

Mark lives in Toronto. He holds a BA in the History of Community Media from the University of Toronto. You can keep up with Mark on Linkedin, and see his recent talks here.

John Dickerson is CEO of Mozilla.ai. He brings a wealth of experience in scaling startups, developing practical and robust machine learning methods, deploying AI-based products into the enterprise, as well as providing broad AI/ML thought leadership in industry, academia, non-profits, and governments.

Previously, John was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Arthur as well as a tenured professor at the University of Maryland in the Washington, DC area.

• At Arthur, he helped scale the company to 50+ employees, a presence in NYC, DC, and the US west coast, and $55 million raised from seed through Series B financing. Arthur develops industry-leading technology in data drift detection and mitigation, bias detection and mitigation, GenAI firewall features such as jailbreak and PII leakage detection, and explainability. Arthur’s ML-based products are deployed at some of the largest regulated enterprises in the US and worldwide.
• At Maryland, he founded and led a large lab researching the intersection of ML and economics, with a core focus of designing incentives that promote “good” participation in complex systems. That lab produced 16 PhD graduates and secured $10M+ in funding from NIST, NSA, DARPA, ARPA-E, NIH, NSF – including an NSF CAREER award – in addition to industry funding.

He has worked extensively on theoretical and empirical approaches to organ exchange where his work has set US-wide policy; worldwide blood donation markets with Meta; game-theoretic approaches to counter-terrorism and negotiation, where his models have been deployed; and market design problems in industry (e.g., online advertising) through various startups.

John holds a BS in mathematics and a BS in computer science from the University of Maryland, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He splits his time between Seattle, Washington, USA and Western Europe.