Many congratulations, and welcome! Michael
Chair, Wikimedia UK > > > > 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevre...@wikimedia.org>: > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately >> directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia >> community. 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