Jane Silber

Jane Silber is CEO of Canonical. Jane started her career as a software developer and has continued to rely on that foundation in her years of business development, strategy, operations and product development experience. She was Canonical's Chief Operating Officer from the time the company was founded, and became CEO in 2010. Jane's previous roles include Vice President of Interactive Television Company and Vice President of General Dynamics C4 Systems. She has also worked in Japan for Teijin Ltd doing artificial intelligence research and product development. She holds an MBA degree from Oxford University, an MSc degree from Vanderbilt University, and a BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Haverford College. She likes people to tell her about the most surprising and exciting place they have encountered Ubuntu.