Jon Mittelhauser

In 1993, as a graduate student, he co-wrote NCSA Mosaic for Windows with fellow student Chris Wilson while working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).^[1] Mittelhauser was part of the original team of five programmers of Mosaic with Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina (Unix version), Aleks Totic (Mac version) and Chris Wilson (Windows version).^[2][3][4] The Windows version that Mittelhauser and Wilson wrote was the first browser with over a million downloads and is often characterized as the first widely used web browser.^[5] Mittelhauser is considered a founding father of the browser.^[6][7]

After leaving the University of Illinois in 1994, Mittelhauser became one of the founders of Netscape Communications Corporation.^[4][6]

His next position was Director of Engineering for Geocast Network Systems, a start-up funded by Mayfield Fund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Institutional Venture Partners.^[8]

Mittelhauser led the software organization at OnLive, Inc. and managed their successful launch in 2010.^[9] He left at the end of that year as VP of Engineering and joined their Technical Advisory Board.

In May 2012 he became Vice President of Engineering for Nebula, Inc.^[9]

From December 2014 to December 2016, he was chief executive officer of the software company that develops CloudBolt.^[10][11]

As of July 2018^[update] he was Vice President of the Container Native Group at Oracle Corporation.^[12]

Mittelhauser has two daughters and lives in Silicon Valley. In 1999 he opened The Basin restaurant in Saratoga with fellow Netscape-er Bill Foss.^[13][14]