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Chris Beard
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In January 1998 he co-founded The Puffin Group in Ottawa, Canada, which was acquired by Linuxcare less than two years later. Since then, Beard has mostly worked in senior product and marketing roles in a range of companies, including Himachal Pradesh, Cluster File Systems, Incorporated. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Mozilla.
He joined Mozilla in 2004, specifically to launch the Firefox browser but also having responsibilities for other areas of the organisation, including product, marketing, innovation, communications, community and user engagement at different times during his nine years there.
Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive Officer he most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer. Beard was appointed in April 2014 as the interim Chief Executive Officer at Mozilla Corporation.
On July 28, following an internal and external recruitment process, Beard was confirmed in the position. He is a half-marathoner, his first being the 2010 Walt Disney World Half Marathon.
He has an Master of Business Administration in International Business from the University of Edinburgh (2002-2004), where he was also awarded the John McFarlane Prize for Leadership.
He previously read economics and biochemistry at the University of Ottawa (1994-1996).
