Jane Silber

Jane Silber is a board member of Canonical Ltd. and was its chief executive officer from 2010 to 2017.[1][2] Silber is also the chair of the board of Diffblue[3] (whose products include Cover, an AI-driven unit test-writing tool).[4] She partially attributes the increasing attention to user research and design in open source since 2009 to Canonical's leadership in this area.[5] Silber announced her transition out of the CEO role in April 2017, with Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth resuming the position from July 2017.She holds an MBA degree from Oxford University's Saïd Business School, an MSc degree in Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University, where she concentrated on machine learning and artificial intelligence work,[6] and a BSc degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Haverford College.
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