about seth
In July 2006, I was brought on by the Mozilla Corporation to help the key leaders and contributors of Mozilla think about how to run a community-giving program. After spending several months finding the most leveraged ways to provide resources to the community, I found myself focusing more and more on our localization efforts. Our community of localizers translates the Mozilla Firefox browser into many different languages and I was finding creative ways to help. Eventually, I became Director of our Localization team, focusing on expanding Mozilla’s impact on the Web by helping our localizers translate Mozilla into an ever-growing number of languages.
Prior to Mozilla, I attended the University of California, Berkeley where I received my Masters in Business Administration. I focused on socially responsible business while I was a student at Berkeley and took leadership roles in the Berkeley Net Impact Club and the Global Social Venture Competition.
I decided to go to business school after my work at Ashoka, which is a global nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing the field of social entrepreneurship by building a global community of Ashoka Fellows. These Fellows find new ideas to solve critical social problems in our society. We focused our support in six areas: Civic Participation, Economic Development, Education, Environment, Health and Human Rights. It was a tremendous experience and I credit a lot of the way I think about things due to Ashoka.
Pre-Ashoka, I spent time working for Davidson Capital Group as an associate for their team. They focus on raising money for private companies who were seeking private equity investments. I learned about Davidson Capital during my two years as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley.
I attended Cornell University and graduated in 1999. While I was there, I spent my first two years in the Engineering College and then transferred to the Agriculture and Life Sciences College where I majored in Agriculture, Resource and Managerial Economics. I also ran cross country and track for three of the four years I was there.
I grew up in Cleveland, Oh on West 102nd street and attended St. Edward High School.
My interests include playing sports (mostly baseball and recently tennis and swimming) and going to live concerts of any type, but mostly alternative and elecrtonic shows.
