Mozilla's new CEO is JavaScript creator Brendan Ike

In April last year, Mozilla announced that Gary Kovacs was leaving CEO and that the company began looking for a replacement. At the time of the search, the duties of CEO were performed by Jay Sullivan, formerly COO (Chief Operating Officer). Today, after almost a year of searching for a new CEO, Mozilla announced that the post will be taken by the creator of JavaScript and CTO Brendan Ike, TechCrunch writes .

In a statement, Ike thanked Jay Sullivan for his contributions to Mozilla and the Internet, and noted that his leadership was essential to the success of the company and Firefox OS in particular. Sullivan, who has worked at Mozilla for six years, will leave the company after the transition.

Ike joined Netscape in April 1995, where he created JavaScript. He later became one of the founding members of the Mozilla Foundation, which was separated from AOL in 2003, after which AOL completely stopped developing Netscape in 2007. Mozilla appointed Ike as CTO in 2005.

Mozilla in its press release said that Ike “has in-depth knowledge of both the technical and product areas, as well as the web as a whole. His technological vision and overall grip have shaped not only Mozilla, but significant parts of the web over the past two decades. ”

As part of the personnel reshuffle, Gong Lee, who organized Mozilla China, will move to the United States and become Mozilla's chief operating officer, with cloud services, IT, Marketplace, Mobile & Research, and Platform Engineering under his responsibility. Mozilla's co-founder and long-time working partner, Mitchell Baker, will remain as executive chairman of Mozilla.

The press release also notes that Mozilla has achieved a number of successes, including the upcoming big release of Firefox with a number of updates and Firefox Accounts that improves synchronization; Mozilla, in partnership with Unity Technologies and Epic Games, provided developers with tools for developing web games without plug-ins; Firefox OS devices are launched in 15 countries with 4 operators and 4 manufacturers.