Jane Silber is a board member of

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and was its chief executive officer from 2010 to 2017. Silber is also the chair of the board of Diffblue (whose products include Cover, an AI-driven unit test-writing tool). Silber joined Canonical in July 2004, where her work has included leading the Ubuntu One project and ensuring that large organizations find Ubuntu "enterprise-ready". She partially attributes the increasing attention to user research and design in open source since 2009 to Canonical's leadership in this area. Silber announced her transition out of the

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role in April 2017, with Canonical founder

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resuming the position from July 2017. As of 2025, Silber is interim CEO at Mozilla.ai.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/ Silber's earlier roles include Vice President of Interactive Television Company and Vice President of

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. She has also worked in Japan for

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Ltd conducting artificial intelligence research and product development, and in the US at General Health, a health risk assessment firm. She holds an MBA degree from

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, an MSc degree in Management of Technology from

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, where she concentrated on

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and artificial intelligence work, and a BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from

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References

External links

Mark Shuttleworth's blog announcement

August 2006 interview with Silber
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