{"id":62225,"date":"2016-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2016\/04\/11\/welcome-sean-white-vice-president-of-technology-strategy\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T05:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T05:42:02","slug":"welcome-sean-white-vice-president-of-technology-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/welcome-sean-white-vice-president-of-technology-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Sean White, Vice President of Technology Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/seanwhite\"><b>Dr. Sean White<\/b><\/a><b> joins the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/about\/leadership\/\"><b>Mozilla leadership team<\/b><\/a><b> this week as a Vice President of Technology Strategy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In this role, Sean will help guide and consult on strategic projects across the organization, with an initial focus on emerging technology opportunities in the areas of <a href=\"http:\/\/mozvr.com\/\">VR &#038; AR<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Connected_Devices\">Connected Devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9289\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sean-White-Headshot-252x189.jpg\" alt=\"Sean White Headshot\" width=\"252\" height=\"189\" \/>Sean was most recently the founder and CEO of BrightSky Labs as well as a Technologist-in-Residence at Greylock Partners, where he led tech evaluations for potential investments and provided strategy consulting to portfolio companies. Prior to this, he established and lead the Interaction Ecologies Group at Nokia, leading multiple innovative efforts in mobile forms and experiences in the areas of wearables, Internet of Things, and augmented reality. He has also held a variety of senior technology leadership roles at NeoCarta Ventures, Lycos and WhoWhere.<\/p>\n<p>He will be based in the Bay Area, primarily working out of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/contact\/spaces\/mountain-view\/\">headquarters in Mountain View<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome Sean!<\/p>\n<p>chris<\/p>\n<p><b>Background:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/bios\/dr-sean-white\/\">Sean\u2019s bio<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/mozillians.org\/en-US\/u\/seanwhite\/\">Mozillians profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/seanwhite\">LinkedIn profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/files\/2016\/04\/Sean-White-Headshot.jpg\">High-res photo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sean White joins the Mozilla leadership team this week as a Vice President of Technology Strategy. In this role, Sean will help guide and consult on strategic projects across the organization, with an initial focus on emerging technology opportunities in the areas of VR &#038; AR and Connected Devices. Sean was most recently the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":9289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Welcome Sean White, Vice President of Technology Strategy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/welcome-sean-white-vice-president-of-technology-strategy\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" 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