Mitchell David Kapor

Founder of Lotus Development Corporation and designer of Lotus 1-2-3, Kapor co-founded the company in 1982 with Jonathan Sachs, who was responsible for technical architecture and implementation. He served as the President (later Chairman) and Chief Executive Officer of Lotus from 1982 to 1986 and as a Director until 1987.

In 1990, with fellow digital rights activists John Perry Barlow and John Gilmore, Kapor co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and served as its chairman until 1994. He was the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation at its inception in 2003.