Mozilla Corporation

As VP of Communications, Brandon is responsible for shaping the global communications strategy and plan that supports brand-building initiatives and long-term business goals. Brandon oversees the global press, social media, editorial, partnerships, and community teams to develop impactful messaging and outbound communications across the Mozilla brand and all of our products.

For more than 20 years, Brandon has been developing and executing communications strategies for some of the world's most recognized and admired organizations. Prior to this, Brandon served as Head of Communications at a Web3 startup, Alchemy, as their first non-engineering hire. He helped the company become the largest developer platform in the market while building a comms team focused on social and community engagement.

Prior to Alchemy, Brandon worked at Twitter as head of global communications. While there, he helped lead the company's efforts to better secure the conversation around elections globally and played a key role in redefining the product narrative, as Twitter made its first significant product charges in more than a decade. He has also led communications at Ancestry, helped Quantcast make a pivot to AI, led the crisis communications team at United Airlines, and worked at the Joele Frank and Brunswick Group, leading a diverse collection of clients including Dropbox, Airbnb, Facebook, Cisco, Ford, and Virgin America.

As Mozilla’s Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, Katherine leads the team in charge of growth and partnerships. She is responsible for managing global search and product partnerships, generating new revenue streams and exploring new business models and opportunities.

Partners are critical to Mozilla’s reach and impact. As such, Katherine’s team oversees partner-product strategy and go-to-market efforts related to Firefox (desktop and mobile), Security & Privacy products, channel and distribution, and new product and service areas.

Previously, as Senior Director of Business Development, Katherine led her team through major new initiatives, product expansion, new business revenue generation, distribution, and rapid discovery efforts across Mozilla’s core, adjacent and conceptual product lines.

Prior to Mozilla, Katherine was an entrepreneur, founding and bootstrapping SnapTwice, a photo-centric mobile and web offering, geared toward consumers and SMBs. Before that, Katherine led Business Development for Tripadvisor (TRIP) in the Americas for several years, focused on mobile and non-desktop growth. She was part of the executive team that grew and sold EveryTrail, a mobile travel startup, to Tripadvisor in 2011; Tripadvisor went public later that same year. Katherine earned her MBA and BA from Stanford University.

Vicky Chin is the Vice President of Engineering leading the Firefox Desktop organization. Her team is focused on building innovative features to improve the Firefox browser experience on Mozilla’s flagship product.

Vicky joined Mozilla in 2018 to establish Firefox’s performance program. Prior to Mozilla, she spent over a decade leading compiler development teams at IBM.

Vicky serves on the board of Internet Security Research Group. She completed her undergraduate studies in Engineering Science and her Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto.

In her role as Mozilla’s VP of Employee Experience, Mardi will leverage the collective impact of our People Business Partners, Learning, Internal Communications, and Events and Workplace Experience teams to set and drive an employee experience agenda aimed at enabling and inspiring our diverse, multi-generational, global team of Mozillians to do their very best work.

Mardi joined Mozilla in June of 2012 with over a decade of experience in HR operations and communications. She’s a curious and tenacious systems thinker who believes deeply that 90% of the work lies in problem identification.

Prior to Mozilla, Mardi led HR Operations, Benefits and Immigration at the creative agency Razorfish. She’s based in Seattle, Washington, and is an every-day-without-fail runner, dog park visitor, and very proud mama of two.

As Mozilla’s VP of Finance, Nicholas leads the team in charge of corporate finance. He is responsible for capital planning, structure, and working capital management.

Capital allocation is vital to achieving Mozilla’s reach and impact. As such, Nicholas’s team oversees annual budgeting and forecasting, deployment of capital, and financial decisions and control executed in close collaboration with business partners.

Previously, as Senior Director of Finance, Nicholas led the Corporate FP&A team, including Corp Planning, Financial Systems, Search Revenue Finance, and Procurement, and made significant improvements in our budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes and systems enabling improvement across the business.

Prior to Mozilla, Nicholas worked in private equity managing CPG portfolios specializing in confection across Hawaii and Guam.

As Vice President of Marketing, Europe, Robin is leading the marketing strategy and go-to-market activations for the European region for Mozilla’s brand and products. He joined Mozilla in 2019 with the mission to grow Mozilla’s consumer impact in Germany, France and the UK.

Prior to Mozilla, Robin has led strategic marketing initiatives at international corporations and agencies such as Viacom, Coca-Cola, ASICS, VCCP and Razorfish. He has worked across businesses and marketing disciplines, both globally and in European markets, focusing on integrated marketing communications, digital transformation, brand, business and creative strategy. His people-oriented leadership is a driving force for building Mozilla’s operations in the region, unlocking the opportunity of “what can be”.

Robin majored in Political Science and American Studies at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany and holds a Coaching Certification from INSEAD. He lives with his husband Guido in the ever-transforming Berlin, Germany.

As the VP and General Manager of Pocket, Matt Koidin is responsible for the Pocket platform.

Pocket is a platform that lets people discover, capture, and spend time with the stories that fascinate and fuel them. Pocket recommends best-of-web content across its properties, including the recommendations on Firefox New Tab. Within the Pocket app, users have a home to absorb stories they’ve saved without the distractions of the web. Pocket is used by millions of people around the world, has won ten Webby Awards and is consistently featured in Google Play and the App Store as an editor’s choice, top-rated app experience.

Matt was a member of the founding team of Pocket, joining in 2011 as CTO and Head of Operations. He has been an integral part of the team and leader through every step of Pocket’s journey. Mozilla acquired Pocket in 2017.

Matt joined the entrepreneur ranks while still an undergraduate at Stanford University, founding a company called Justarrive, one of the first e-ticket companies focused on sports. That experience hooked Matt on being an entrepreneur and since then his journey has included stints at four startups, Microsoft, an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business (Duke University) and strategy consulting with Deloitte.

Matt is a recipient of the Fuqua Alumni Impact Award for his role as co-chair of the Duke Global Entrepreneurship Network and recently completed a six year term as chair of the board for the Presidio Knolls School. Matt lives in San Francisco with his wife, Christine, and two daughters, Maile and Lauren.

As the VP Marketing, North America, Christina Lang (who prefers to be called Lang) is hyper-focused on creative ways to introduce our suite of products to new North American audiences. Lang joined Mozilla in June of 2021 and brought with her over a decade of expertise in marketing strategy, operations, and program management in the tech space for companies such as Outbrain and Facebook.

A collaborative problem solver, Lang’s superpower is seeing a path through complexity and bringing everyone along for the ride. She is committed to amplifying the consumer marketing work coming out of Mozilla’s North American Marketing team, and developing efficiencies that will further strengthen the wider organization.

Prior to Mozilla, she led marketing strategy and operations at Twitch, where she was responsible for optimizing process to support product development and go-to-market strategy, as well as driving annual planning and culture building for the marketing organization.

Based in San Francisco, raised as a New York Italian, Lang is not only blessed with genetic loudness and distinctive pronunciation, but also learned to cook at a very young age and continues to work on nailing her Nana’s tomato sauce.

As VP of Data, Dan leads Mozilla's data engineering, data science, and machine learning groups. He also leads engineering operations, IT, Mozilla Rally, and Kaala.

Prior to Mozilla, Dan was an early and long-tenured employee at Etsy. As the first principal engineer at the company, Dan worked on everything a little bit, but his most notable contributions were in infrastructure, search, and recommendations systems. He has been on the founding teams at several startups and has worked in data at Stripe and Mailchimp.

Dan holds a BS in computer science from Cornell University. He lives in Los Angeles with his son Oscar and partner Samantha.

Oscar is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in designing products, services, and platforms that have a positive impact on society. Born in New York City and raised in Bogota, Colombia, he has been living in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years.

Prior to joining Mozilla, Oscar served as the VP of Design at The Athletic, which is part of the New York Times family. He led a team of talented designers who worked on creating the world's best sports journalism and entertainment experience. Before that, he was a Product Design Manager at Facebook Reality Lab, where he contributed to the development of a new AR product. Oscar spent 15 years at Microsoft, where he worked on some exciting projects such as HoloLens, XBOX, Kinect, wearables, connected vehicles, and smart home technology. During his tenure at Microsoft, he was also part of the "Inclusive Design" and "Ethics & Society" teams.

Oscar has been awarded over 20 patents.

Earlier in his career, Oscar worked as a Creative Director at AT&T, InfoSpace Mobile, and Clique, where he designed digital experiences for companies like T-Mobile, Orange, Sprint, Cingular, Forbes, Renault, People, Cosmo Magazine, Wallpaper, and the Wall Street Journal.

Oscar is an active member of several design organizations and has served as the Design Director for the Computer Human Interaction conference (CHI). He is also an affiliate lecturer at the University of Washington's School of Art, Art History, and Design, and has taught at NYU ITP and the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Outside of his professional work, Oscar is a proud father of two kids, Tomas and Chloe, and happily engaged to his partner, Gina Marie. In his spare time, he enjoys staying active through activities such as swimming, biking, and snowboarding. Oscar is also a musician and enjoys playing a variety of instruments.

Andrew is the VP of Engineering responsible for Mozilla’s web platform implementation, Gecko. His team of Mozillians from around the world are experts in building our world-class web browser engine that manifests Mozilla’s values.

Having an independent implementation of the web platform as a part of Firefox is important to Mozilla’s mission and vision of an open and accessible internet. Andrew and his team maintain solid working relationships with their colleagues across the industry and productively collaborate via standards bodies such as the IETF and the W3C.

Andrew joined Mozilla in May of 2012 after having spent a decade working at Red Hat. He was a member of a variety of open source communities and enjoyed his time as a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. He holds a BASc in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto.

Eric is CTO of the Firefox team at Mozilla. In this role he leads the long-term technical strategy for Firefox. He also partners with the Engineering and Product organizations to set the short-term technical direction.

Since joining Mozilla in 2013, Eric has been focused on advanced technologies and Mozilla’s technical strategy. Eric was instrumental in the development of WebRTC, which brought voice and video to the browser and worked with Cisco to start OpenH264, which allows Open Source projects to use the world’s most popular video codec for free. He also played a key role in starting Let’s Encrypt, which makes it easy for anyone to run a secure website.

Eric’s background is in communications security, especially Transport Layer Security (TLS), the foundational security protocol for the Web. He is the former chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force TLS Working group as well as the editor of the TLS and HTTPS specification. Eric co-designed Datagram Transport Layer Security, and is the author of one of the standard books on TLS.

Eric was on the Internet Architecture board from 2002 to 2008 and in 2007 served on California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s Top-to-Bottom Review of the voting systems certified for use in California.

Eric holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from Yale University.