Tristan Nitot is the founder and former president of Mozilla Europe.
Education
Tristan Nitot is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Informatique de Paris (or SUPINFO, a school for advanced computer studies) in Paris, also known as ESI. He also has a master"s degree from European Society of Clinical Pharmacy (management studies) in Paris, specialising in social management of organisations.
Career
He is now chief product officer at Cozy Cloud. After having been the technical manager of a start-up specializing in computer security and having worked for Partner Soft South.A in Paris, he joined the Netscape Communications Corporation where he held various positions from 1997 to 2003, first running Product marketing in Southern Europe and then acting as a Technology Evangelist, managing developer relations in Europe. Tristan Nitot also helped to launch the OpenWeb.eu.org project in 2002, aiming at promoting Web standards and accessibility.
In May 2005, he became an employee of Mozilla Europe, the European home of the Firefox Web browser.
He has been contributing to the project since 2001. Nitot has been publishing material on the Web since 1996, and started blogging in 2002 on standblog.org.
His blog, mostly dedicated to the promotion of open source software, reaches an average of 12,000 readers daily. On 3 February 2015, Nitot announced that was leaving the Mozilla Foundation.
He wants to write a book denouncing the mass surveillance of citizens.
On 11 March 2015, the French startup Cozy Cloud announced his hiring as chief product officer for their open source personal cloud product.
Membership
Conseil national du numérique.