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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.

Amy Keating is Chief Operating Officer for the Mozilla family of organizations, where she leads portfolio-wide investments and operational initiatives alongside leaders from across the Mozilla Project. The Mozilla Project’s nonprofit umbrella includes the organizations behind Firefox, Thunderbird and open source AI developer tools; the Mozilla Ventures fund dedicated to responsible technology; and Mozilla’s global foundation championing an open, equitable internet.

Amy previously served as Chief Administrative & Legal Officer at Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), an aerospace and data company operating the world's largest Earth-observation satellite fleet, which she helped take public in 2021. Amy also served as Chief Administrative Officer at Glean, a late stage private enterprise AI company.

Earlier in her career, Amy held roles as Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary at Mozilla Corporation, where she shaped global regulatory strategy and complex multi-party litigation, and VP & Deputy General Counsel at Twitter, where she managed legal matters in more than 20 countries.

Amy served on the Mozilla Foundation board from 2023 to 2026, and currently sits on the boards of Mozilla Ventures and the Mozilla Data Collective. She holds a JD and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in the Bay Area with her family.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.