{"id":61857,"date":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2010\/10\/14\/introducing-our-new-ceo-gary-kovacs\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:30:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:30:03","slug":"introducing-our-new-ceo-gary-kovacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/introducing-our-new-ceo-gary-kovacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing our new CEO: Gary Kovacs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce that we have appointed Gary Kovacs as our new CEO. His first day will be November 8th.<\/p>\n<p>Gary\u2019s appointment as CEO comes as part of a planned leadership transition that we <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lizardwrangler.com\/2010\/05\/11\/planned-leadership-transition\/\">announced<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Gary\u2019s appointment, please see the following posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lizardwrangler.com\/2010\/10\/14\/welcome-gary-kovacs\/\">Welcome Gary Kovacs<\/a> by Mitchell Baker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/john.jubjubs.net\/2010\/10\/14\/introducing-gary\/\">Introducing Gary<\/a> by John Lilly<\/p>\n<p>In November we will schedule a series of events around the world for community and others to have an opportunity to meet and talk with Gary.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow at 10am PT we will be hosting a community Q&#038;A with Mitchell Baker to talk about Gary&#8217;s appointment.\u00a0 More details at: https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Ask_Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>Background on Gary Kovacs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2010\/10\/garylogo_lg1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2457\" title=\"garylogo_lg\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/278\/files\/2010\/10\/garylogo_lg1-249x300.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary Kovacs is the CEO of Mozilla Corporation with the responsibility for leading the overall direction of the organization and the Firefox Web browser.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Mozilla, Gary held senior leadership roles as Senior VP of Markets, Solutions &#038; Products at Sybase (through its acquisition by SAP earlier this year), as General Manager and VP of Mobile &#038; Devices at Adobe and as VP of Product Marketing at Macromedia (through its acquisition by Adobe).<\/p>\n<p>Previously, he led the successful creation and growth of Zi Corporation, a company specializing in embedded software and services for mobile and consumer devices.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Zi Corporation, Gary spent 10 years at IBM in leadership positions in product management, sales, marketing and operations within the global software division.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a bachelor of commerce and an MBA with distinction, from the\u00a0 University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Once Gary officially starts in November he&#8217;ll be reachable at gkovacs@mozilla.com and on Twitter @mozillaGary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce that we have appointed Gary Kovacs as our new CEO. His first day will be November 8th. Gary\u2019s appointment as CEO comes as part of a planned leadership transition that we announced earlier this year. 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