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Mozilla Names Former CMO Beard as Interim CEO

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Sean Michael Kerner
Apr 14, 2014

Mozilla today named Chris Beard as its interim CEO, filling the position left vacant after Brendan Eich resigned on April 3 after controversy erupted over a 2008 donation he made to the campaign for Proposition 8, an amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. Eich had been appointed CEO of Mozilla on March 24.

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