Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

[Abraham Taherivand]

My warm congratulations to Wes and Tomasz on their new roles!

Cheers,
Abraham

2015-10-09 2:34 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov :

> All,
>
> I want to share an update about the WMF’s product leadership. As of today,
> Wes Moran has stepped into the role of Vice President of Product. In this
> role, he’ll oversee the Foundation’s product across all audience verticals,
> reporting to me. Please join me in welcoming Wes into this new role.
>
> Wes has more than 17 years of experience in product design and development,
> with expertise in open source communities, user-centered design,
> interaction design, user experience, user research and testing, product
> management, and more. Since joining the Foundation, he led the
> newly-created Discovery team to focus on user needs, transparency, and
> accountability, and worked closely with our colleagues at Wikimedia
> Deutschland on key projects such as Wikidata. He has been an invaluable
> resource as we have continued to recruit for a Chief Technology Officer,
> working with Terry and myself to cover critical leadership
> responsibilities.
>
> With this change, Tomasz Finc, Katie Horn, Toby Negrin, and Trevor Parscal
> will report to Wes. Tomasz will now lead the Discovery team. Tomasz has
> been Director of Discovery and helped build and lead development of this
> new team. He has served in many leadership capacities over his 7 years here
> at the foundation and joined us from Amazon where he worked with the A9
> search team. Please join me in congratulating Wes and Tomasz.
>
> Lila
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates on WMF product leadership

[Pine W]

Thank you for the announcement. Congrats to Wes.

Pine
On Oct 8, 2015 8:34 PM, "Lila Tretikov"  wrote:

> All,
>
> I want to share an update about the WMF’s product leadership. As of today,
> Wes Moran has stepped into the role of Vice President of Product. In this
> role, he’ll oversee the Foundation’s product across all audience verticals,
> reporting to me. Please join me in welcoming Wes into this new role.
>
> Wes has more than 17 years of experience in product design and development,
> with expertise in open source communities, user-centered design,
> interaction design, user experience, user research and testing, product
> management, and more. Since joining the Foundation, he led the
> newly-created Discovery team to focus on user needs, transparency, and
> accountability, and worked closely with our colleagues at Wikimedia
> Deutschland on key projects such as Wikidata. He has been an invaluable
> resource as we have continued to recruit for a Chief Technology Officer,
> working with Terry and myself to cover critical leadership
> responsibilities.
>
> With this change, Tomasz Finc, Katie Horn, Toby Negrin, and Trevor Parscal
> will report to Wes. Tomasz will now lead the Discovery team. Tomasz has
> been Director of Discovery and helped build and lead development of this
> new team. He has served in many leadership capacities over his 7 years here
> at the foundation and joined us from Amazon where he worked with the A9
> search team. Please join me in congratulating Wes and Tomasz.
>
> Lila
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