Mark Surman
Canadian internet activist
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| 2024 | Succeeded as executive director by Nabiha Syed. |
| 2022 | Took on the additional role of Mozilla Foundation president, working with Mitchell Baker on Mozilla-wide strategy and expansion efforts, including launching Mozilla Ventures and Mozilla.ai. |
| 2018 | Focused movement building efforts on promoting responsible data and AI practices, co-writing the paper 'Creating Trustworthy AI' with Rebecca Ricks. |
| 2016 | Shifted the Foundation's focus toward supporting the 'internet health movement', including launching the yearly Mozilla Internet Health Report and the Privacy Not Included guide. |
| 2012 | Began developing efforts to promote digital literacy, including Mozilla's Maker Party event series and the Webmaker software project. |
| 2011 | Led the development of the initial Mozilla Fellowship program with the Knight Foundation, focusing on placing open source developers in newsrooms. |
| 2010 | Surman oversaw the development of the Mozilla Festival, an annual gathering of people working on open internet and open source projects. |
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