Mozilla Appoints John Lilly as Chief Executive Officer

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Mozilla Corporation today
 announced the appointment of current chief operating officer John Lilly as
 its CEO, effective immediately. Concurrent with the appointment of Lilly,
 Mozilla also announced that Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's current CEO, would
 continue as Chairman and a full-time executive of the corporation.
 
     "John Lilly is the right person to guide the maturation of Mozilla,"
 said Mitchell Baker, Chairman of Mozilla Corporation. "John has been
 instrumental in developing an organization that is both embedded in Mozilla
 and open-source DNA and that can function at the extremely high degree of
 effectiveness that our setting requires."
 
     As CEO, John will focus on the product, technology and execution of the
 Mozilla Corporation. Mitchell will focus on bringing Mozilla goals and
 mindshare to affect change in related aspects of Internet development, such
 as standards and interoperability, treatment of data, and use of market
 mechanisms to support public benefit organizations.
 
     "I'm honored and excited to help Mozilla advance its mission of a
 participatory Web around the world. The Web is the single most important
 innovation of our lifetimes -- it affects everything," said Lilly. "With
 thousands of open source contributors, more than 125 million users, and
 countless organizations who rely on Mozilla's community and technology,
 we're in rarefied territory."
 
     "I've worked with both Mitchell and John for a number of years now, and
 I strongly support these moves at Mozilla, which should allow the
 organization to do more things than ever before and to do them well," said
 Mitch Kapor, board member and former chairman, Mozilla Foundation.
 
     Background on John Lilly
 
     John Lilly joined Mozilla Corporation in 2005 as Vice President of
 Business Development, and, since 2006, has served as COO and a member of
 the Board of Directors. Prior to this, Lilly was the founder, CEO, CTO and
 VP of products for Reactivity, a software company acquired by Cisco Systems
 in 2007. Previously, he held staff positions at Apple, Sun Microsystems and
 Trilogy Software. Lilly has been an active participant in open source
 projects, serving on the boards of the Open Source Applications Foundation
 and Participatory Culture Foundation. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in
 computer science from Stanford University.
 
     For more information, please see the following blog posts from Mitchell
 Baker and John Lilly:
 
 

     Mitchell Baker's blog post:
     http://tinyurl.com/3y2ubk
 
     John Lilly's blog post:
     http://john.jubjubs.net/?p=622
 
     About Mozilla
 
     Mozilla is a global community dedicated to building free, open source
 products and technologies that improve the online experience for people
 everywhere. We work in the open with a highly disciplined, transparent and
 cooperative development process, under the umbrella of the non-profit
 Mozilla Foundation. As a wholly owned subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation
 organizes the development and marketing of Mozilla products. This unique
 structure has enabled Mozilla to financially support and cultivate
 competitive, viable community innovation. For more information, visit
 http://www.mozilla.com.
 
     For more information, visit the FAQ:
 
     http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2008-01-07-faq.html.
 
 
 

SOURCE Mozilla