Welcome Lila, and thanks Sue for the awesome past seven years!! Just forwarded this message to the Taiwan chapter board.
Regards, Ted Chien -- Sent from my HTC One 801e 2014/5/2 上午2:17 於 "Jan-Bart de Vreede" <[email protected]> 寫道： > Hi All > > FYI > > Jan-Bart > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Jan-Bart de Vreede <[email protected]> > > Subject: Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED > > Date: 1 May 2014 20:15:04 GMT+2 > > To: [email protected] > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
