Mozilla Ventures

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.

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.

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.

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.