Congratulations, Abraham, and WMDE. :) Best,
Maggie On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Tim Moritz Hector < tim-moritz.hec...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > It is our great pleasure to announce that during last weekend’s Board > retreat, we voted to appoint Abraham Taherivand as Executive Director of > Wikimedia Deutschland with immediate effect. > > Abraham has joined Wikimedia Deutschland in 2012, has been the director of > our Software Development department, and interim ED in the past two months. > In all his roles he has shown vast experience and qualifications as well as > the much needed, deep commitment for Free Knowledge. We are convinced that > Abraham is the right person at the right time for Wikimedia Deutschland and > have great confidence that the management of the office is in good hands > with him. Abraham will continue to lead the Software Development department > on an interim basis until we have been able to fill this position with a > new permanent director. > > Together with Abraham, WMDE staff, our members and communities as well as > other interested parties, the board will analyse and – where applicable – > revise the composition of leadership and decision making structures at WMDE > in 2017. Kurt Jansson, Sebastian Moleski and myself will be steering this > process and are available for your questions and feedback via email ( > praesid...@wikimedia.de). > > We wish Abraham the very best in this role, and the Board looks forward to > continuing to work with him. Please join us in congratulating Abraham! > > For the Supervisory Board > Tim Moritz Hector > Chair > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Maggie Dennis Interim Chief of Community Engagement Director, Support, Safety and Programs Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
