Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Board of Directors at Mozilla Messaging
- Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla
- Past
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- Vice President, Products at Mozilla
- Vice President, Corporate Development at Cluster File Systems, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems)
- Product Management at Hewlett-Packard Company
- General Manager, Emerging Services at Linuxcare
- CEO, Co-Founder, and Board of Directors at The Puffin Group, Inc. (acquired by Linuxcare, Inc.)
- Systems Analyst at Government of Canada
- Field Engineer at General Dynamics Canada (formerly, Computing Devices)
- Education
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- The University of Edinburgh
- University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
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Chris Beard’s Experience
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Board of Directors
Mozilla Messaging
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
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Chief Innovation Officer
Mozilla
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Responsible for driving overall technology & product explorations to enable new and innovative web experiences for 300M+ active users around the world -- with specific operational responsibility for Mozilla Labs, Developer Tools, Evangelism, and the Add-ons Ecosystem (160M+ active users)
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Vice President, Products
Mozilla
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2004 — September 2007 (3 years )
Joined prior to the release of Firefox 1.0, and took on overall responsibility for worldwide marketing & product management -- building & leading teams and a global community to successfully establish Firefox as a well-known and loved consumer technology product and brand.
Over three years, we scaled all aspects of the business, product & community to support hundreds of millions of active users in more than 100 countries -- releasing updates to Firefox 1.0, 1.5, and 2 for all major platforms (Win, Mac and Linux) in 50+ languages every 6-8 weeks. Drove new product developments and partnerships with companies including Google, Yahoo, Nike, Kodak and eBay. -
Vice President, Corporate Development
Cluster File Systems, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems)
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
September 2003 — February 2004 (6 months)
As a consultant to this start-up focused on the development of parallel file systems for high-performance computing applications, I engaged in strategic planning and execution to establish branding and pioneer pre-sales and product marketing
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Product Management
Hewlett-Packard Company
(Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)
January 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 10 months)
As a consultant during the Compaq acquisition, I defined strategy & pioneered product management for a new division focused on Linux-based servers and workstations -- with multiple successful product launches helping to build a new multi-billion dollar business within HP
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General Manager, Emerging Services
Linuxcare
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Relocated to San Francisco to lead a new strategic business unit following the acquisition of The Puffin Group with responsibility for driving emerging technology & market opportunity identification, new product development, and piloting of new offerings
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CEO, Co-Founder, and Board of Directors
The Puffin Group, Inc. (acquired by Linuxcare, Inc.)
(Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — December 1999 (2 years )
Co-founded and served as CEO of this engineering services start-up that focused on accelerating adoption of the Linux operating system -- building and managing a global team to achieve profitability with innovative partnerships and Fortune 500 customers through its successful acquisition by Linuxcare in late 1999
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Systems Analyst
Government of Canada
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
April 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 10 months)
Recruited out of university to serve as a technical member on a six person Canadian economic team driving an international research project (in collaboration with Cornell University) to design and develop dynamic micro-economic Monte Carlo simulation models to predict and analyze social policy impacts on country populations
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Field Engineer
General Dynamics Canada (formerly, Computing Devices)
(Public Company; GD; Defense & Space industry)
March 1993 — September 1994 (1 year 7 months)
Recruited out of high school to serve as a technical member on a fifteen person field service team responsible for software engineering & hardware retrofitting as part of a global upgrade of military combat systems for the US Department of Defense
Chris Beard’s Education
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The University of Edinburgh
MBA , International Business , 2002 — 2003
Focused on the management of technology and innovation, with additional international study at ESADE (Barcelona, Spain) and Cambridge University. Awarded the John McFarlane Prize for Leadership
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University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
Biochemistry & Economics 1994 — 1996
Completed two years of undergraduate coursework in the departments of Economics and Medicine. Suspended studies to join a Canadian government economic research team
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