Background
Kapor, Mitchell David was born on November 1, 1950 in Brooklyn. Son of Jesse and Phoebe L. (Wagner) Kapor.
application developer Foundation administrator investor
Kapor, Mitchell David was born on November 1, 1950 in Brooklyn. Son of Jesse and Phoebe L. (Wagner) Kapor.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1971. Master of Arts, Campus-Free College (now Beacon College), Boston, 1978. Postgraduate, Sloan School Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Boston University, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Massachusetts School Professional Psychology, 1990. Doctor of Science (honorary), Suffolk University, 1988.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1996.
Disc. jockey WHCN-FM, Hartford, Connecticut. Teacher, transcendental mediation Cambridge, Massachusetts and Fairfield, Iowa. Entry-level computer designer Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Freelance consultant, 1978-1980. Product manager Personal Software, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, 1980. Founder Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982, director, 1982—1987, president Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982-1984, Chief Executive Officer, chairman, 1984-1986.
President Kapor Enterprises Inc. Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Ontario Technology Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987-1990. Co-founder Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc., 1990, chairman, 1990-1994, chairman, president, 1994-1999.
Partner Accel Partners, Palo Alto, California, 1999—2001. Lecturer, adjunct professor Open Source Development and Distribution of Information University California, Berkeley, 2005—2009. Founder, Chief Executive Officer Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks), 2006—2008.
Angel investor bitly, Get Satisfaction, Sprout, EtherPad, Twilio, CubeTree, Dapper, Wikia, Federated Media, others. Chairman Massachusetts Commission Computer Technology and Law, 1992, 93, since 2003. Member, computer science and technical board National Research Council.
Member advisory council National Information Infrastructure. Adjunct professor, Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994—1996. Founding investor UUNET and Real Networks.
Chairman of board Linden Research, OneDayWeb, since 2009. Board directors Groove Networks, ePals, Discoverio, Headroom.
Trustee Kapor Family Foundation, 1984—1998, Level Playing Field Institute, San Francisco, since 2001. Founder, director Mitchell Kapor Foundation, since 1997. Founder, president, chairman Open Source Applications Foundation, San Francisco, since 2001.
Founding chairman, board directors Mozilla Foundation, since 2003.
Married Judith M. Vecchione, June 4, 1972 (divorced 1979). Married Ellen M. Poss, August 7, 1983 (divorced 1998). Married Freada Klein, June 19, 1999.
