David Ascher
CEO
David has overall responsibility for the company’s operations, strategic direction, and outreach. As such, he spends much of his time in product design discussions and community building activities.
David’s current priorities are to help define the product roadmap for Thunderbird 3, and to continue to enroll both individual and corporate community partners. David’s blog
Dan Mosedale
CTO
Dan is a Mozilla veteran with years of experience in email, calendaring, and web browsing technologies including Thunderbird and Firefox.His current focus is to coordinate the engineering efforts for Thunderbird 3, especially regarding the ambitious new features and architectural work implied by our goals for Thunderbird 3. Dan’s blog
Bryan Clark
User Experience Lead
Bryan is a rare bird: someone who combines talents in user experience design with strong open source roots. Having worked on projects ranging from the GNOME Desktop to the XO laptop and a variety of projects at Red Hat. Bryan’s strong user experience design skills and passion for working with communities of interested participants will serve Thunderbird users well.
Bryan’s role as UX lead will be to lead the development of Thunderbird’s user experience: identifying interactions that can be improved, exploring possible creative avenues, and picking the best solution. Bryan’s blog
Andrew Sutherland
Thunderbird Hacker
Andrew’s background spans distributed systems and Mozilla hacking. As readers of his blog know, he has a passion for building systems that give insight into information, using advanced visualization techniques.
His current focus is to assist in some of the "heavy lifting" engineering work required to reach our Thunderbird 3 product goals, including making it easy for third-parties to build add-ons to Thunderbird. Andrew’s blog
Mark Banner
Thunderbird Hacker
Mark is a longtime contributor to Thunderbird and Seamonkey, with particular expertise in everything related to the Address Book. In addition to his Mozilla experience, Mark has worked on user interface and embedded systems for an aerospace company. No biography of Mark would be complete without mentioning his passion for church bell ringing, whence his IRC handle, Standard8.
Mark’s current focus is to refactor the address book for long-term extensibility, and to setup automated test frameworks for the entire product so that further refactoring can be performed with confidence. Mark’s blog
Philippe M. Chiasson
Root
Philippe was born in a wee remote Quebec village, renowned for cow farms and otherwise producing an extraordinary small number of Open Source enthusiasts. He goes by his heraldic clan name: Gozer. In addition to being a Perl programmer with extreme system architecture and operations management prowess, Gozer is an accomplished yo-yo’er and juggler. Thankfully, he only has two small children, so he doesn’t use them to practice.
Philippe’s top priority is to manage Mozilla Messaging’s IT facilities, and put together build and release architectures enabling efficient development and delivery of Thunderbird to users. Philippe’s blog
David Bienvenu
Thunderbird Architect
David is the co-creator of Thunderbird and has been working on the Mozilla mail code since it was the Netscape 4 mail code. He primarily works on the backend code but lends a hand all over as needed.
His current focus is on doing the infrastructure work that will be leveraged by the cool new UI work that will be part of Thunderbird 3.0. David’s Blog
Ludovic Hirlimann
QA Lead
Ludovic has been playing with computers since an Apple IIe was brought home one day in 1982. He's been using Mozilla since the M8 days. Ludo helped the Camino project from version 0.7 to the 1.0 release. Ludovic is known as _Tsk_ on IRC.
His mission is to build a community of testers to make sure that the next release of Thunderbird will be of the highest quality. Ludo’s blog
Rafael Ebron
Product Marketing
Rafael is responsible for the Thunderbird marketing strategy. Previously, he coordinated the world-wide launch of Firefox 1.0 and Netscape 7 as a product manager for Mozilla Corporation and Netscape Communications. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Management.
His current focus is building the global marketing community through spreadthunderbird.com and keeping Thunderbird users happy. Rafael’s blog
Gary Kwong
Bugzilla Gardener
Gary is working part-time with us whilst doing his Bachelor of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He once volunteered to build custom Thunderbird installers during its infant stages, and now runs The Rumbling Edge, a blog about the ongoing development of Thunderbird and Lightning.
Gary currently tends the garden of Thunderbird to keep dangerous bugs at bay, using his IRC moniker: nth10sd. While not gardening, he helps out in other areas of development with the occassional bug fix. Gary's blog