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Chris Beard is a Canadian business leader, and CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. In January 1998 he co-founded The Puffin Group in Ottawa, Canada, which was acquired by Linuxcare less than two years later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Linux Today - National Post: California firm buys Ottawa Linux developer the Puffin Group )〕 Since then, Beard has mostly worked in senior product and marketing roles in a range of companies, including HP, Cluster File Systems, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Mozilla. He joined Mozilla in 2004,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=People on the Move )〕 specifically to launch the Firefox browser but also having responsibilities for other areas of the organisation, including product, marketing, innovation, communications, community and user engagement at different times during his nine years there.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla )〕 Prior to his appointment as CEO he most recently served as Chief Marketing Officer. In July 2013 he joined Greylock Partners as an executive in residence,〔(John's Tumblr - Announcing Chris Beard as Greylock Executive-in-Residence ). Lilly.tumblr.com (2013-07-08). Retrieved on 2014-02-20.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Team )〕 though remaining an advisor to Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's Chair. Beard was appointed in April 2014 as the interim CEO at Mozilla Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mozilla Moving Forward )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mozilla names interim CEO )〕 On July 28, following an internal and external recruitment process, Beard was confirmed in the position.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla )〕 He has an MBA in International Business from the University of Edinburgh (2002–04), where he was also awarded the John McFarlane Prize for Leadership. He previously read economics and biochemistry at the University of Ottawa (1994–96). ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Beard (executive)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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