{"id":81817,"date":"2025-09-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=81817"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:21:35","slug":"mozilla-welcomes-raffi-krikorian-chief-technology-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/leadership\/mozilla-welcomes-raffi-krikorian-chief-technology-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla welcomes Raffi Krikorian as Chief Technology Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today Mozilla is excited to announce Raffi Krikorian \u2014 technologist, innovator and community builder \u2014 as our first-ever portfolio wide Chief Technology Officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporting to Mozilla President, Mark Surman, Raffi will be part of the team that coordinates efforts across our whole family of organizations. He will work alongside the existing bench of technical leaders including Anthony Enzor-DeMeo (GM \/ Firefox), Bobby Holley (CTO \/ Firefox), and Ryan Sipes (Thunderbird).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As AI and technology development becomes increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few, Krikorian joins Mozilla at a moment of urgency and opportunity. It is a pivotal time to shape a different future  \u2014 one where we build AI we can trust, use with agency, and understand \u2014 rather than accept a future defined by opacity and control. Krikorian will lead Mozilla\u2019s efforts to develop trustworthy and open source AI, ensuring Mozilla is inventing and building technology that pushes us all in the right direction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe need to make sure AI and the internet belong to all of us, not just a few big companies,\u201d said Mark Surman, President of Mozilla. \u201cRaffi is the right person to lead that charge \u2014 creative, innovative and passionate about responsible technology. He puts wind in our sails, accelerating Mozilla\u2019s mission of building technology based on the values in our Manifesto.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krikorian brings a record of impact across sectors to Mozilla, with roles spanning tech, politics, media and philanthropy. Raffi joins us from having been the CTO at Emerson Collective, where he led efforts to bring technologists into sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and economic mobility \u2014 and to help people in those sectors see themselves as technologists. He also hosted the \u201cTechnically Optimistic\u201d podcast and Substack, exploring technology\u2019s impact on society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prior to that, he was the first CTO of the US\u2019s Democratic National Committee, where he used data, technology, and digital security to support the election processes of Democratic candidates up and down the ballot; Director of Uber\u2019s Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the development and rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet; and Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, where he managed and built Twitter\u2019s global infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krikorian has served on the Mozilla Foundation Board of Directors since 2023, on Mozilla.ai<\/a>\u2019s Board since 2024, and on the Mozilla.org<\/a> Board since its inception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t just need critiques on how AI is being built \u2014 we need real, working alternatives,\u201d said Krikorian. \u201cMozilla is one of the few places that can actually do that. It\u2019s built for this moment. I’m excited to join the team and help shape technology that reflects values we care about \u2014 transparency, openness, participation, and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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