Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thu, 1 May 2014 20:15:04 +0200
Jan-Bart de Vreede  wrote:

> Dear fellow community members,
> 
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will be
> Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader, most
> recently with SugarCRM.
> 

Welcome, Lila! And good luck.

Regards,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Greetings from India! We are so happy and excited to have you, Lila. As Sue 
will continue being with us as a key community player, the gender gap community 
is going to expect a lot from you. 

Congratulations! See you soon in Wikimania. :)

Best!
Subha

> On 02-May-2014, at 7:11 am, Tonmoy Khan  wrote:
> 
> Welcome Lila and best wishes.
> 
> Ali Haidar Khan
> Wikimedia Bangladesh
>> On May 2, 2014 6:59 AM, "Paolo B."  wrote:
>> 
>> On behalf of Wikimedia Philippines, congratulations, Lila! We wish you
>> all the best and we look forward to working with you. Mabuhay at
>> maligayang pagdating!
>> 
>> Paolo Barazon
>> Chairman of the Board of Trustees
>> Wikimedia Philippines
>> 
>>> On 5/2/14, Markus Glaser  wrote:
>>> Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it
>>> easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved
>>> in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work
>>> togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Markus
>>> 
>>> Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
 A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the
 Foundation, Lila!
 Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.
 
 Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the
 past year.
 
 Best,
 Tim
 
 Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:
> Congratulations, Lila!
> On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:
> 
>> Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
>> Jan-Bart
>> & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this
>> great news
>> to the Dutch board & community.
>> Frans Grijzenhout
>> 
>> 
>> 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede
>> :
>> 
>>> Dear fellow community members,
>>> 
>>> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am
>>> delighted to
>>> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation will
>>> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology
>>> leader,
>>> most recently with SugarCRM.
>>> 
>>> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she
>>> planned
>> to
>>> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
>> spent
>>> some time working through the most critical requirements for the
>>> role. We
>>> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
>> background,
>>> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We
>> wanted
>>> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd
>>> managed
>>> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
>>> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context.
>> We
>>> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency
>>> and
>>> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder
>>> environments, and
>>> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with
>>> courage
>>> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by
>>> attempts to
>>> censor the projects.
>>> 
>>> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>>> 
>>> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States
>>> alone,
>> as
>>> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
>> open
>>> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started
>> her
>>> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
>>> GrokDigital, a
>>> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior
>>> director
>> of
>>> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based
>> wireless
>> data
>>> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
>>> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as
>> the
>>> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT,
>>> marketing,
>>> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
>>> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
>>> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>>> 
>>> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The
>>> Transition Team
>>> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted
>>> unanimously to
>>> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to
>>> accept the
>>> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and
>>> unpretentious,
>>> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>>> 
>>> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
>>> mode,
>>> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the
>>> month. He

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Tonmoy Khan]

Welcome Lila and best wishes.

Ali Haidar Khan
Wikimedia Bangladesh
On May 2, 2014 6:59 AM, "Paolo B."  wrote:

> On behalf of Wikimedia Philippines, congratulations, Lila! We wish you
> all the best and we look forward to working with you. Mabuhay at
> maligayang pagdating!
>
> Paolo Barazon
> Chairman of the Board of Trustees
> Wikimedia Philippines
>
> On 5/2/14, Markus Glaser  wrote:
> > Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it
> > easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved
> > in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work
> > togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!
> >
> > Best,
> > Markus
> >
> > Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
> >> A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the
> >> Foundation, Lila!
> >> Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.
> >>
> >> Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the
> >> past year.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:
> >>> Congratulations, Lila!
> >>> On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:
> >>>
>  Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
>  Jan-Bart
>  & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this
>  great news
>  to the Dutch board & community.
>  Frans Grijzenhout
> 
> 
>  2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede
>  :
> 
> > Dear fellow community members,
> >
> > On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am
> > delighted to
> > announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia
> > Foundation will
> > be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology
> > leader,
> > most recently with SugarCRM.
> >
> > As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she
> > planned
>  to
> > step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
>  spent
> > some time working through the most critical requirements for the
> > role. We
> > decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
>  background,
> > ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We
> wanted
> > someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd
> > managed
> > staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> > continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context.
> We
> > wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency
> > and
> > openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder
> > environments, and
> > with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with
> > courage
> > and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by
> > attempts to
> > censor the projects.
> >
> > Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
> >
> > Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States
> > alone,
>  as
> > a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
>  open
> > source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started
> her
> > career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
> > GrokDigital, a
> > technology and design company. She spent three years as senior
> > director
>  of
> > development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based
> wireless
>  data
> > services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> > SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as
> the
> > organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT,
> > marketing,
> > customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> > development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> > skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
> >
> > We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The
> > Transition Team
> > (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted
> > unanimously to
> > recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to
> > accept the
> > recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and
> > unpretentious,
> > and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
> >
> > Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
> > mode,
> > and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the
> > month. Her
> > first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her
> > understanding
>  of
> > the Wikimedia projects.
> >
> > I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> > appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of
> the
> > Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. Whe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Paolo B.]

On behalf of Wikimedia Philippines, congratulations, Lila! We wish you
all the best and we look forward to working with you. Mabuhay at
maligayang pagdating!

Paolo Barazon
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Philippines

On 5/2/14, Markus Glaser  wrote:
> Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it
> easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved
> in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work
> togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
> Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
>> A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the
>> Foundation, Lila!
>> Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.
>>
>> Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the
>> past year.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tim
>>
>> Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:
>>> Congratulations, Lila!
>>> On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:
>>>
 Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
 Jan-Bart
 & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this
 great news
 to the Dutch board & community.
 Frans Grijzenhout


 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede
 :

> Dear fellow community members,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am
> delighted to
> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia
> Foundation will
> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology
> leader,
> most recently with SugarCRM.
>
> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she
> planned
 to
> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
 spent
> some time working through the most critical requirements for the
> role. We
> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
 background,
> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd
> managed
> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency
> and
> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder
> environments, and
> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with
> courage
> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by
> attempts to
> censor the projects.
>
> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>
> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States
> alone,
 as
> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
 open
> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
> GrokDigital, a
> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior
> director
 of
> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless
 data
> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT,
> marketing,
> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>
> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The
> Transition Team
> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted
> unanimously to
> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to
> accept the
> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and
> unpretentious,
> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>
> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
> mode,
> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the
> month. Her
> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her
> understanding
 of
> the Wikimedia projects.
>
> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I
> hired
> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven
> years,
> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective,
> well-funded
> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of
 purpose,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Markus Glaser]

Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it 
easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved 
in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work 
togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!


Best,
Markus

Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the 
Foundation, Lila!

Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.

Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the 
past year.


Best,
Tim

Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:

Congratulations, Lila!
On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:

Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to 
Jan-Bart
& the other members of the transition team. I will forward this 
great news

to the Dutch board & community.
Frans Grijzenhout


2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede 
:



Dear fellow community members,

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am 
delighted to
announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia 
Foundation will
be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology 
leader,

most recently with SugarCRM.

As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she 
planned

to

step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we

spent
some time working through the most critical requirements for the 
role. We

decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering

background,

ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd 
managed

staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency 
and
openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder 
environments, and
with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with 
courage
and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by 
attempts to

censor the projects.

Lila is precisely what we set out to find.

Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States 
alone,

as

a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in

open

source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded 
GrokDigital, a
technology and design company. She spent three years as senior 
director

of

development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless

data

services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, 
marketing,

customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.

We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The 
Transition Team
(Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted 
unanimously to
recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to 
accept the
recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and 
unpretentious,

and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.

Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening 
mode,
and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the 
month. Her
first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her 
understanding

of

the Wikimedia projects.

I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I 
hired

Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven 
years,
Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, 
well-funded

and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of

purpose,
and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process 
was
integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be 
forever

grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to

rely

on her support in the months and years ahead.

In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and

Lila.

She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do 
next.

Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in

August.
The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a 
successful

outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a 
warm

welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new E

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Rodrigo Padula]

Congratulations Lila!

Seja bem-vinda!!

Rodrigo Padula
Brasil


2014-05-01 15:15 GMT-03:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :

> Dear fellow community members,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
> most recently with SugarCRM.
>
> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to
> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent
> some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering background,
> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
> censor the projects.
>
> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>
> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as
> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open
> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>
> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>
> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
> the Wikimedia projects.
>
> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
> grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
> on her support in the months and years ahead.
>
> In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila.
> She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
> Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
> outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
> helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
> welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
>
> Jan-Bart de Vreede
> Chair
> Wikimedia Board of Trustees
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Ivan Martínez]

¡Bienvenida!
El may 1, 2014 3:50 p.m., "Carlos M. Colina" 
escribió:

> Welcome!!!
>
> M.
>
> El 01/05/2014 09:15 p.m., Jan-Bart de Vreede escribió:
>
>> Dear fellow community members,
>>
>> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
>> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
>> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
>> most recently with SugarCRM.
>>
>> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
>> to step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
>> spent some time working through the most critical requirements for the
>> role. We decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
>> background, ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We
>> wanted someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd
>> managed staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience
>> creating continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile
>> context. We wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration,
>> transparency and openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder
>> environments, and with an international orientation. We knew we needed
>> someone with courage and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be
>> intimidated by attempts to censor the projects.
>>
>> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>>
>> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
>> as a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
>> open source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
>> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
>> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
>> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
>> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
>> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
>> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
>> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
>> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
>> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>>
>> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
>> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
>> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
>> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
>> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>>
>> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
>> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
>> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
>> the Wikimedia projects.
>>
>> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
>> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
>> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
>> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
>> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
>> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
>> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
>> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
>> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
>> grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
>> on her support in the months and years ahead.
>>
>> In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
>> Lila. She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
>> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
>> Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
>>
>> The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
>> outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
>> helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
>> welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
>>
>> Jan-Bart de Vreede
>> Chair
>> Wikimedia Board of Trustees
>>
>>
>>
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[Carlos M. Colina]

Welcome!!!

M.

El 01/05/2014 09:15 p.m., Jan-Bart de Vreede escribió:

Dear fellow community members,

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to 
announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will be 
Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader, most 
recently with SugarCRM.

As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to step 
down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent some time 
working through the most critical requirements for the role. We decided the new 
ED should be someone with a product/engineering background, ideally in an 
open-source or other online community context. We wanted someone experienced 
with organisations that were growing, who'd managed staff and budgets 
comparable to ours, and who had experience creating continuous delivery of 
technology improvements in an agile context. We wanted a person who is oriented 
towards collaboration, transparency and openness, with some experience with 
complex stakeholder environments, and with an international orientation. We 
knew we needed someone with courage and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't 
be intimidated by attempts to censor the projects.

Lila is precisely what we set out to find.

Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as a 
teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open 
source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her career 
at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a technology 
and design company. She spent three years as senior director of development at 
Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data services for 
mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at SugarCRM, where she held 
positions of increasing responsibility as the organization grew, including 
being in charge of internal IT, marketing, customer support and professional 
services, engineering, and product development. She has a stellar reputation as 
a leader who is highly skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.

We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team 
(Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to 
recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the 
recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious, and we 
believe she has the skills the WMF needs.

Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode, and 
will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her first 
priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of the 
Wikimedia projects.

I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply appreciative 
thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation 
for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired Sue in 2007, we were just 
a chaotic little non-profit in small-town Florida, with a tiny staff and not 
much money. Over the past seven years, Sue's leadership has built the 
Foundation into an effective, well-funded and well-managed organisation, with 
integrity and a clear sense of purpose, and her steady and committed presence 
throughout the search process was integral in helping us come to this excellent 
result. We will be forever grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope 
we can continue to rely on her support in the months and years ahead.

In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila. 
She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a wiki-break, 
before beginning to think about what she's going to do next. Many of us will 
get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.

The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful outcome 
to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for helping us with 
it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm welcome to Lila 
Tretikov, our new ED.

Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Wikimedia Board of Trustees



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Steve Zhang]

Welcome from Australia, Lila. As you can see, us Wikimedia folk are a
welcoming bunch and eager to learn more about you :)

Sue - we will all miss you :)

Steven Zhang
President - Wikimedia Australia
On 2 May 2014 04:17, "Jan-Bart de Vreede"  wrote:

> Dear fellow community members,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
> most recently with SugarCRM.
>
> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to
> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent
> some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering background,
> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
> censor the projects.
>
> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>
> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as
> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open
> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>
> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>
> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
> the Wikimedia projects.
>
> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
> grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
> on her support in the months and years ahead.
>
> In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila.
> She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
> Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
> outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
> helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
> welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
>
> Jan-Bart de Vreede
> Chair
> Wikimedia Board of Trustees
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Michael Maggs]

Many congratulations, and welcome!

Michael

Chair, Wikimedia UK

> 
> 
> 
> 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :
> 
>> Dear fellow community members,
>> 
>> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
>> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
>> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
>> most recently with SugarCRM.
>> 
>> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to
>> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent
>> some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
>> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering background,
>> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
>> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
>> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
>> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
>> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
>> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
>> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
>> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
>> censor the projects.
>> 
>> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>> 
>> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as
>> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open
>> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
>> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
>> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
>> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
>> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
>> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
>> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
>> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
>> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
>> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>> 
>> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
>> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
>> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
>> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
>> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>> 
>> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
>> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
>> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
>> the Wikimedia projects.
>> 
>> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
>> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
>> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
>> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
>> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
>> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
>> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
>> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
>> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
>> grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
>> on her support in the months and years ahead.
>> 
>> In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila.
>> She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
>> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
>> Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
>> 
>> The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
>> outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
>> helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
>> welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
>> 
>> Jan-Bart de Vreede
>> Chair
>> Wikimedia Board of Trustees
>> 
>> 
>> ___
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>> directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia
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[Jon Davies]

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London for Wikimedia



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> On 1 May 2014, at 20:48, Frans Grijzenhout  wrote:
> 
> Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to Jan-Bart
> & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great news
> to the Dutch board & community.
> Frans Grijzenhout
> 
> 
> 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :
> 
>> Dear fellow community members,
>> 
>> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
>> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
>> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
>> most recently with SugarCRM.
>> 
>> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to
>> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent
>> some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
>> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering background,
>> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
>> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
>> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
>> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
>> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
>> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
>> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
>> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
>> censor the projects.
>> 
>> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>> 
>> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as
>> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open
>> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
>> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
>> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
>> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
>> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
>> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
>> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
>> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
>> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
>> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>> 
>> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
>> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
>> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
>> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
>> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>> 
>> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
>> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
>> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
>> the Wikimedia projects.
>> 
>> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
>> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
>> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
>> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
>> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
>> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
>> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
>> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
>> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
>> grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
>> on her support in the months and years ahead.
>> 
>> In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila.
>> She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
>> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
>> Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
>> 
>> The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reache

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Oona Castro]

Congratulations and a warm welcome from Brazil, Lila!
Wish you all the best in such challenging and important position.

Also many thanks to Sue, for all her work and vision.

Please feel free to ask us anything if it's helpful in the onboarding
process.

Oona


On 1 May 2014 16:51, Chris Keating  wrote:

> Congratulations, Lila!
> On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:
>
> > Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
> Jan-Bart
> > & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great
> news
> > to the Dutch board & community.
> > Frans Grijzenhout
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :
> >
> > > Dear fellow community members,
> > >
> > > On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted
> to
> > > announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
> will
> > > be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology
> leader,
> > > most recently with SugarCRM.
> > >
> > > As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
> > to
> > > step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
> > spent
> > > some time working through the most critical requirements for the role.
> We
> > > decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
> > background,
> > > ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> > > someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
> > > staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> > > continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> > > wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
> > > openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments,
> and
> > > with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with
> courage
> > > and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts
> to
> > > censor the projects.
> > >
> > > Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
> > >
> > > Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
> > as
> > > a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
> > open
> > > source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> > > career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
> GrokDigital, a
> > > technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director
> > of
> > > development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless
> > data
> > > services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> > > SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> > > organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
> > > customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> > > development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> > > skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
> > >
> > > We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition
> Team
> > > (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously
> to
> > > recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept
> the
> > > recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and
> unpretentious,
> > > and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
> > >
> > > Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
> mode,
> > > and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month.
> Her
> > > first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her
> understanding
> > of
> > > the Wikimedia projects.
> > >
> > > I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> > > appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> > > Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I
> hired
> > > Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
> > > Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven
> years,
> > > Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective,
> well-funded
> > > and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of
> > purpose,
> > > and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
> > > integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be
> forever
> > > grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to
> > rely
> > > on her support in the months and years ahead.
> > >
> > > In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
> > Lila.
> > > She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
> > > wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do
> next.
> > > Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in
> > August.
> > >
> > > The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
> > > outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Tim Moritz Hector]

A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the 
Foundation, Lila!

Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.

Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the 
past year.


Best,
Tim

Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:

Congratulations, Lila!
On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:


Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to Jan-Bart
& the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great news
to the Dutch board & community.
Frans Grijzenhout


2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :


Dear fellow community members,

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
most recently with SugarCRM.

As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned

to

step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we

spent

some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering

background,

ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
censor the projects.

Lila is precisely what we set out to find.

Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,

as

a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in

open

source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director

of

development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless

data

services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.

We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
(Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.

Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding

of

the Wikimedia projects.

I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of

purpose,

and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to

rely

on her support in the months and years ahead.

In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and

Lila.

She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in

August.

The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.

Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Wikimedia Board of Trustees


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[Chris Keating]

Congratulations, Lila!
On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:

> Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to Jan-Bart
> & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great news
> to the Dutch board & community.
> Frans Grijzenhout
>
>
> 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :
>
> > Dear fellow community members,
> >
> > On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
> > announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
> > be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
> > most recently with SugarCRM.
> >
> > As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
> to
> > step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
> spent
> > some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
> > decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
> background,
> > ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> > someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
> > staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> > continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> > wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
> > openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
> > with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
> > and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
> > censor the projects.
> >
> > Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
> >
> > Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
> as
> > a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
> open
> > source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> > career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
> > technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director
> of
> > development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless
> data
> > services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> > SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> > organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
> > customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> > development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> > skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
> >
> > We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
> > (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
> > recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
> > recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
> > and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
> >
> > Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
> > and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
> > first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding
> of
> > the Wikimedia projects.
> >
> > I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> > appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> > Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
> > Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
> > Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
> > Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
> > and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of
> purpose,
> > and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
> > integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
> > grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to
> rely
> > on her support in the months and years ahead.
> >
> > In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
> Lila.
> > She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
> > wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
> > Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in
> August.
> >
> > The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
> > outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
> > helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
> > welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
> >
> > Jan-Bart de Vreede
> > Chair
> > Wikimedia Board of Trustees
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Frans Grijzenhout]

Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to Jan-Bart
& the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great news
to the Dutch board & community.
Frans Grijzenhout


2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede :

> Dear fellow community members,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
> announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
> most recently with SugarCRM.
>
> As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to
> step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent
> some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We
> decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering background,
> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and
> with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage
> and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to
> censor the projects.
>
> Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
>
> Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as
> a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open
> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
> technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
> development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>
> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
> recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
> recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
> and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
>
> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
> and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
> first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
> the Wikimedia projects.
>
> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
> Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
> and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
> grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
> on her support in the months and years ahead.
>
> In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila.
> She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
> Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
> outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
> helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
> welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
>
> Jan-Bart de Vreede
> Chair
> Wikimedia Board of Trustees
>
>
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[Manuel Schneider]

Thanks for this message and welcome Lila.

May the expectations of the Transition Team, the Foundation, the
communities and chapters work out...
Not an easy job, with such heterogeneous groups and interests.

Forwarded the information in German to the Austrian, Swiss and German
community. I think I may congratulate Lila for her new job also in their
name.


/Manuel
-- 
Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch

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[Jan-Bart de Vreede]

Dear fellow community members,

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to 
announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will be 
Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader, most 
recently with SugarCRM.

As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned to step 
down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we spent some time 
working through the most critical requirements for the role. We decided the new 
ED should be someone with a product/engineering background, ideally in an 
open-source or other online community context. We wanted someone experienced 
with organisations that were growing, who'd managed staff and budgets 
comparable to ours, and who had experience creating continuous delivery of 
technology improvements in an agile context. We wanted a person who is oriented 
towards collaboration, transparency and openness, with some experience with 
complex stakeholder environments, and with an international orientation. We 
knew we needed someone with courage and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't 
be intimidated by attempts to censor the projects. 

Lila is precisely what we set out to find.

Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone, as a 
teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in open 
source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her career 
at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a technology 
and design company. She spent three years as senior director of development at 
Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data services for 
mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at SugarCRM, where she held 
positions of increasing responsibility as the organization grew, including 
being in charge of internal IT, marketing, customer support and professional 
services, engineering, and product development. She has a stellar reputation as 
a leader who is highly skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious. 

We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team 
(Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to 
recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the 
recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious, and we 
believe she has the skills the WMF needs.

Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode, and 
will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her first 
priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of the 
Wikimedia projects.

I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply appreciative 
thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation 
for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired Sue in 2007, we were just 
a chaotic little non-profit in small-town Florida, with a tiny staff and not 
much money. Over the past seven years, Sue's leadership has built the 
Foundation into an effective, well-funded and well-managed organisation, with 
integrity and a clear sense of purpose, and her steady and committed presence 
throughout the search process was integral in helping us come to this excellent 
result. We will be forever grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope 
we can continue to rely on her support in the months and years ahead.

In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and Lila. 
She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a wiki-break, 
before beginning to think about what she's going to do next. Many of us will 
get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.

The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful outcome 
to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for helping us with 
it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm welcome to Lila 
Tretikov, our new ED.

Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Wikimedia Board of Trustees

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