Board
The Mozilla Foundation board responsible for the overall corporate governance of Mozilla and provides direct strategic oversight of programs operated directly by Mozilla Foundation staff such as Mozilla Webmaker.
The board participates in the yearly development of Mozilla Foundation goals and approves an annual budget based on these goals. They are also responsible for selecting, supporting and evaluating the Executive Director of Mozilla Foundation and the Board of Directors for its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.
For more information about the role of the board, see this FAQ.
Board Composition
Voting directors
- Mitchell Baker, Chair of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
- Brian Behlendorf, World Economic Forum CTO and Apache founder
- Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO
- Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab Director and Creative Commons Chair
- Bob Lisbonne, CEO of Luminate and former Netscape VP
- Cathy Davidson
Non-voting officers
- Mark Surman, President and Executive Director
- Ryan Merkley, Secretary and Chief Operating Officer
- Jim Cook, Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer
Board Growth and Community
In early 2012, the Mozilla Foundation started talking about ways to grow the Mozilla Foundation board and also to better connect the board to the rest of the Mozilla community.
As a first step in this direction, the board released a job description for new board members and began a search. The first candidate to be put forward for the board is Cathy Davidson from Duke University. Conversation with Cathy and the Mozilla Community will take place on June 4 and 6 2012 on Air Mozilla.
Beyond this, the board plans to do a series of town hall meetings and begin the process of finding further board members throughout 2012.