Welcome Lila and best wishes. Ali Haidar Khan Wikimedia Bangladesh On May 2, 2014 6:59 AM, "Paolo B." <tito...@gmail.com> 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 <markus.gla...@wikimedia.de> 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" <fr...@wikimedia.nl> 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 > >>>> <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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