Not surprisingly, the executive and board positions of the WMF follow U.S. convention. It's not super typical to mix the "executive director" nomenclature with president / vice president, but its common to have vice presidents reporting to a chief executive (who will often take the title of "President & CEO.").
As for conflicting names with Board titles... In the U.S., its far more common for boards to have a Chairman (or Chairwoman) and a Vice-Chair, than president or vice-president (which connote operating roles). Personally, it would be easier for me to understand the org chart of the WMF if they picked a particular nomenclature and stuck with it. For years they've been mixing systems - CTO and executive director, vice president and a proliferation of "Heads of" this and that (a highly uncommon executive title in the U.S., as far as I can tell), directors of some things and chiefs of other things... It's a bit strange. On a side-note, it's interesting to see that Erik has been moved out of the "executive" section of the staff list and into engineering.[1] [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Staff_and_contractors&diff=next&oldid=78885 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
