Nataliia, Thanks so much for your announcement and welcome to Luis! Given that we’re talking about a board role that requires a range of governance / oversight responsibilities, could you please tell us more about Luis’ non-profit board and governance experience?
Best, Frank > Am 1/12/22 um 09:19 schrieb Nataliia Tymkiv <ntym...@wikimedia.org>: > > Dear All, > > Please join me in welcoming Luis Bitencourt-Emilio to the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees. Luis was unanimously appointed to a 3-year term > and replaces a board-selected Trustee, Lisa Lewin, whose term ended in > November 2021 [1]. > > Currently based in São Paulo, Luis is the Chief Technology Officer at Loft, a > technology startup in the real-estate industry. He brings product and > technology experience from a globally diverse career that has spanned large > technology companies including Microsoft, online networking sites like > Reddit, and a series of entrepreneurial technology ventures focused in the > USA and Latin America. Luis has led product and technology teams across Latin > America, the United States, Europe and Asia. He is passionately involved in > building and promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem for Latin American-based > startups. > > Luis has more than two decades of experience across product development, > software engineering, and data science. At Microsoft, he led engineering > teams shipping multiple Microsoft Office products. At Reddit, he led the > Knowledge Group, an engineering team that owned critical functions such as > data, machine learning, abuse detection and search. He was deeply involved in > Reddit’s growth stage and worked closely with Reddit’s communities in that > evolution. Luis also co-founded a fintech startup to help millennials manage > and automate their finances. > > His career has also been shaped by a visible commitment to recruiting diverse > leaders. At Reddit, Luis was a key member of the recruitment efforts that > achieved equal representation of women engineering directors. Luis says his > proudest achievement at Microsoft was building their Brazilian talent > pipeline by working closely with local universities to place thousands of > engineering candidates at Microsoft, as well as his involvement in expanding > global recruitment to markets including Ukraine, Poland, Great Britain, the > EU and Mexico. > > Luis was educated in Brazil and the United States, receiving a Bachelor of > Science in Computer Engineering with Honors from the University of Maryland. > He is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English. He is also a proud father > and dog lover. > > I would like to thank the Governance Committee, chaired by Dariusz > Jemielniak, for this nomination process as well as volunteers in our Spanish > and Portuguese speaking communities who also met with Luis or shared their > experiences. > > You can find an official announcement here [2]. > > PS. You can help translate or find translations of this message on Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/January_2022_-_Luis_Bitencourt-Emilio_Joins_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/January_2022_-_Luis_Bitencourt-Emilio_Joins_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees> > > > [1] Lisa Lewin served from January 2019 till November 2021: > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Lisa_Lewin%E2%80%99s_Appointment_to_the_Board_of_Trustees,_2021 > > <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Lisa_Lewin%E2%80%99s_Appointment_to_the_Board_of_Trustees,_2021> > > [2] > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/12/luis-bitencourt-emilio-joins-wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees/ > > <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/12/luis-bitencourt-emilio-joins-wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees/> > > Best regards, > antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > > NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working > hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You > should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in > advance! > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/2GJOGXKJITWZDZU3NQZQXX2ENN2EEK25/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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