Mozilla Leadership

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.

Nabiha Syed is Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation, the global nonprofit that does everything from championing trustworthy AI to advocating for a more open, equitable internet.

Formerly, Nabiha was the CEO of The Markup, an award-winning journalism non-profit that challenges technology to serve the public good. Under her leadership, The Markup’s unique approach was referenced by Congress 21 times, inspired dozens of class action lawsuits, won a national Murrow Award and a Loeb Award, and was recognized as “Most Innovative” by FastCompany in 2022.

Prior to The Markup, Nabiha was a highly acclaimed media lawyer with a legal career spanning private practice and the New York Times First Amendment Fellowship. She led BuzzFeed’s libel and newsgathering matters, including the successful defense of several high-profile libel lawsuits.

Nabiha sits on the boards of the Scott Trust, the $1B+ British company that owns The Guardian newspaper, the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the New Press. She also serves as an advisor to ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech, and she is a current member of The World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance. In 2023, Nabiha was awarded the NAACP/Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award for her work.

As CEO of Mozilla Corporation, Anthony leads the vision and corporate strategy for the nonprofit-backed tech company behind the Firefox web browser. He is responsible for driving overall business growth, strengthening Mozilla’s market position, and advancing the company’s focus on becoming the world’s trusted software company for people who value openness, transparency, and control.

Anthony brings broad experience across real estate and prop tech, consumer fintech, e-commerce, and automotive. He joined Mozilla in 2024 as General Manager of Firefox, following his role as Chief Product and Technology Officer at Roofstock, where he oversaw the company-wide technology roadmap and multiple product and business lines. During his tenure, he guided the organization through a strategic acquisition that expanded and enhanced its offerings.

Previously, as Chief Product Officer at Better, Anthony led product and design efforts across the business, with a focus on the mortgage application, real estate, title, and insurance sectors of consumer mortgage. Before that, he held product leadership roles at Wayfair, where he established B2B and B2C product divisions, launched a comprehensive API strategy, and led product for supply chain platforms. He advanced to General Manager of product, engineering, and design for Partner Home, Wayfair's two-sided marketplace. Earlier in his career, Anthony was part of the product team at Dealer.com, working across go-to-market strategy, product readiness, and general product management.

Anthony holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, as well as an MS and BS from Champlain College. He is based in Boston with his family and enjoys spending time olympic lifting, watching horror movies and building computers.

Ryan Sipes is CEO of Thunderbird, a Mozilla company making productivity software that is both good and good for people.Ryan has been with MZLA / Thunderbird in various roles since 2017. He is an open source enthusiast who works on technology that enriches people's lives - focusing on digital well-being, productivity and privacy.

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.

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.

EM is the Founder and CEO of Mozilla Data Collective: the data sharing platform for human agency and fair value exchange. They were previously a Vice President at Mozilla Foundation, and the Director at Common Voice, the world’s largest open crowdsourced speech corpus, spanning 300+ languages and 750,000 open community contributors. EM has led global language dataset creation, curation and community governance programs backed by the US National Science Foundation, NVIDIA, Gates Foundation, and GIZ. Before Mozilla, they were a founding executive in CivTech, working on sharing information, data and knowledge across borders, funded both by venture capital and philanthropy.

They have been on the Natural Language Processing TAP for Google-backed Lacuna Fund, an Industry Board Advisor for Speech Technologies at the University of Groningen and an Advisor for the Caribbean Parliaments’ big data programme. Their first degree was from the University of Oxford (BA, MA), and their PhD research on AI agent privacy configuration is based at the University of Sussex's Creative Technology Lab.

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.