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Mitchell Baker

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Mitchell Baker is an American businesswoman and lawyer best known for her long leadership of the Mozilla project. She studied Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley, took her law degree there in 1987, and worked as a corporate and intellectual property associate at the law firm Fenwick & West before joining Sun Microsystems as an associate general counsel. In 1994 she became one of the first lawyers in the legal department of Netscape Communications Corporation, where she wrote the Netscape Public License and the Mozilla Public License and later became general manager of mozilla.org. She was instrumental in creating the Mozilla Foundation in 2003 and became its president and chairperson, and she was named the first CEO of the taxable Mozilla Corporation when it was launched in 2005. She stepped aside as CEO in 2008, returned to the role in 2020, and stepped down as CEO in February 2024 before leaving Mozilla altogether in 2025.

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Legal and Compliance, Practice Disciplines
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Software Industry, Industries
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Mozilla Corporation, Companies and Brands
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Mitchell Baker

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United States

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Winifred Mitchell Baker is an American businesswoman.
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Mitchell Baker (Wikipedia)
  • Lead [nationality]
    Winifred Mitchell Baker is an American businesswoman.
  • Led By: Mozilla Corporation, Career, Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
    When the Mozilla Corporation was launched as a taxable subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation on August 3, 2005, Baker was named the CEO of the new entity.
  • Associated With: Software Industry, Lead
    coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
  • Associated With: Legal and Compliance, Career
    she worked as a corporate and intellectual property associate at Fenwick & West LLP
  • In Group: Chief Executives and Senior Executives, Lead section
    She is a former chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications
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