Congratulations Lila! Seja bem-vinda!!
Rodrigo Padula Brasil 2014-05-01 15:15 GMT-03:00 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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