Congrats and welcome Lila! Looking foward to meeting you asap!
¡Bienvenida! 2014-05-01 17:56 GMT-03:00 Chris McKenna <cmcke...@sucs.org>: > Congratulations and welcome Lila, > > I look forward to meeting you at Wikimania. > > Chris > > > On Thu, 1 May 2014, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > > Hi All >> >> FYI >> >> Jan-Bart >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> From: Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevre...@wikimedia.org> >>> Subject: Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED >>> Date: 1 May 2014 20:15:04 GMT+2 >>> To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > ---- > Chris McKenna > > cmcke...@sucs.org > www.sucs.org/~cmckenna > > > The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, > but with the heart > > Antoine de Saint Exupery > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C Wikimedia Argentina* *Imprime este correo solo si es realmente necesario* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
