Mozilla board members resign on CEO appoinment

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Mozilla board members resign on CEO appoinment
Three Mozilla board members resigned over the choice of Brendan Eich, a Mozilla co-founder, as the new CEO, the Wall Street Journal reports. Gary Kovacs, a former Mozilla CEO who runs online security company AVG Technologies; John Lilly, another former Mozilla CEO now a partner at venture-capital firm Greylock Partners; and Ellen Siminoff, CEO of online education startup Shmoop, left the board the same week the appointment was announced. The departures leave three people on the Mozilla board: co-founder Mitchell Baker; Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, and Katharina Borchert, chief executive of German news site Spiegel Online. 

The three board members who resigned sought a CEO from outside Mozilla with experience in the mobile industry who could help expand the Firefox OS and balance the skills of co-founders Eich and Baker, people familiar with the situation told the paper. Mozilla spokesman Mike Manning confirmed the three remaining board members, but he declined to comment further. 

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