CEO, Mozilla Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Board of Directors at TripIt
- Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University
- CEO at Mozilla Corporation
- Past
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- Member, Board of Trustees at Sunnyvale Public Library
- Member, Board of Directors at Open Source Applications Foundation
- Chief Operating Officer & Member, Board of Directors at Mozilla Corporation
- CTO, VP Products, Board of Directors & Founder at Reactivity (acquired by Cisco)
- Member, Board of Directors at CenterRun
- CEO, Board of Directors & Founder at Reactivity
- Senior Scientist at Apple Computer
- Director of Design at Trilogy Software
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Stanford University
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John Lilly’s Summary
I've spent virtually my whole career in high technology (both software and hardware), with a particular focus on startups. Huge focus over the last 5 years at getting companies up and running from scratch, including Reactivity, Zaplet & CenterRun, as well as scaling Mozilla into one of the largest software distributors on the planet.
John Lilly’s Experience
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Board of Directors
TripIt
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year)
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Consulting Assistant Professor
Stanford University
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Consulting Assistant Professor in the d.school (Institute of Design in the Engineering School)
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CEO
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
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Member, Board of Trustees
Sunnyvale Public Library
(Libraries industry)
June 2005 — June 2009 (4 years 1 month)
Advise the Sunnyvale City Council on issues relating to the Public Library.
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Member, Board of Directors
Open Source Applications Foundation
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — November 2008 (7 years 11 months)
At Mitch Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org), we're working to reinvent personal information managers and the way that open source projects get built.
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Chief Operating Officer & Member, Board of Directors
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 6 months)
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CTO, VP Products, Board of Directors & Founder
Reactivity (acquired by Cisco)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — December 2004 (4 years)
- Drove product strategy and roadmap through first 4 releases
- Ran technical sales for the company – significant responsibility for closing early customers
- Hired and managed team of seven people for pre-sales, post-sales and product management
- Wrote majority of white papers, presentations, technical collateral
- Created services organization and ran first several implementations
- Major role in fundraising $6M and $10M rounds -
Member, Board of Directors
CenterRun
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2000 — June 2003 (3 years 1 month)
Was a board member for CenterRun, a Sequoia Capital backed startup that focused on application provisioning for enterprise data centers. CenterRun was acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 2003.
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CEO, Board of Directors & Founder
Reactivity
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — December 2000 (3 years)
During this time, Reactivity was a technology incubator, specializing in building first products and teams for hi-tech companies. Our more than 80 clients included Nuance, MetalSite, ChemDex, and Epinions. During this period, we also performed R&D and team building to start our own companies from scratch, two of which we successfully spun out: Zaplet Inc. (backed by KPCB), and CenterRun Inc. (backed by Sequoia Capital and recently acquired by Sun Microsystems).
- Ran the new ventures creation side of the business
- Significant involvement in creating and spinning out Zaplet and CenterRun
- Managed operations for the company from inception through $2.5M consulting revenue in CY2000
- Actively involved in staffing, including running the process for hiring CEO successor
- Ran Series A fundraise for $23M from Accel, Austin Ventures and Maveron -
Senior Scientist
Apple Computer
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year)
Apple Computer’s Advanced Technology excelled in user experience research; the group that I was in focused on end-user authoring, allowing “normal people” to create content (and share it with peers, family, etc. over both proprietary networks and the Internet).
- One of the youngest ever to hold Senior Scientist title
- Work resulted in two U.S. patents for application server style technology
- Performed research and early implementations of online communities -
Director of Design
Trilogy Software
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 7 months)
When I arrived, Trilogy had many customers but a large level of frustration with Trilogy's product's user interfaces. I created a new Design Group to address this need, and put into place a methodology and team that resulted in measurable new sales for the company and increased customer satisfaction.
- Created and managed the Design Group – one of the first design groups in the enterprise software sector
- Responsibility for redesigning the user interfaces across company’s product lines
- Personally worked on projects with largest customers including Boeing, HP & Haworth
- Developed and shipped several new products
- Was member of Trilogy’s executive staff
John Lilly’s Education
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Stanford University
MS , Computer Science , September 1993 — June 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- - Study focus on User Experience; advisor was Terry Winograd
- Ran undergraduate teaching assistant program (CS198) for two years, including managing fifty section leaders in premier undergraduate CS program
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Stanford University
BS , Computer Systems Engineering , September 1989 — June 1993
- Curriculum focused on combination of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Additional Information
John Lilly’s Websites:
John Lilly’s Interests:
- Currently advising several startups, including Marketcetera, Foxmarks and Saynow
John Lilly’s Groups:
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Stanford CS106 Section Leaders
John Lilly’s Honors:
- Numerous talks & papers on entrepreneurship, XML and Web Services security
- Holder of 5 U.S. Patents, including:
- Providing Security for External Access to a Protected Computer Network
- Method and Apparatus for Transmitting Documents Over a Network
- Object-oriented Editor for Creating World Wide Web Documents
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