1416961 - Update Chris Beard's bio on leadership page

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

New bio:


Chris Beard has been CEO of the Mozilla Corporation and a member of its
Board of Directors since 2014.

As CEO, his focus has been on returning the organization to its roots and
putting people at the center of everything Mozilla does. In particular, he
is focused on ensuring Mozilla and its flagship product, Firefox, remain a
beacon of freedom as people’s lives become increasingly intertwined with
the Internet across desktop, mobile and new domains.

A lifelong learner, Chris has been a passionate advocate for Open Source
his entire career. He has led engineering, product and marketing teams to
collaborate on Open Source projects for more than 20 years.

At Mozilla, Chris has led marketing and product management teams to build
the Mozilla and Firefox brands, grow the community, and launch core
products to hundreds of millions of users globally. As the company’s first
Chief Innovation Officer, he led Mozilla Labs to develop new technology
that formed the foundation for Mozilla’s mobile, social and identity
products. In 2013, he joined Greylock Partners as an Executive-in-Residence
and then returned to Mozilla as CEO in 2014.

Prior to Mozilla, Chris held marketing and product roles at Cluster File
Systems (acquired by Sun), Hewlett-Packard Company and Linuxcare. He was
also co-founder and CEO of The Puffin Group (acquired by Linuxcare), an
early Open Source technology startup that was focused on Linux kernel and
device driver development.

Chris studied economics and biochemistry at the University of Ottawa and
received his MBA in International Business from the University of
Edinburgh, where he was also awarded the John McFarlane Prize for
Leadership. He is a member of the national board of directors of
Make-A-Wish. Born in Canada, Chris now calls the San Francisco Bay Area
home with his wife and their two children.

Comment 1

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5280

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/7c0355d27f83c47ad35840d0b65b763fb498de39
[fix bug 1416961] Update Chris Beard’s bio on leadership page

Comment 3

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

This is live: https://www.mozilla.org/about/leadership/#chris-beard