This is an exciting news. Selena, we are glad to welcome you to our movement.
regards. On Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:10 PM Maryana Iskander <miskan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > When I started in January, I shared with you that one of my top > priorities > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Chief_Executive_Officer/Maryana%E2%80%99s_Listening_Tour/My_Incoming_Priorities> > coming to the Wikimedia Foundation was to actively step in and support the > Foundation’s product and technology teams while we recruited executive > leadership of these mission critical functions with a new Chief Product and > Technology Officer. > > I am delighted to introduce you to Selena Deckelmann, who will be joining > the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1. She is based in Portland, Oregon in > the United States. > > Selena is currently the Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she has > been for the last nine years. She leads the Firefox organization of more > than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology > functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services. > > I have gotten to know Selena over several months and also learned from > people who have worked with her over many years. She is known for > successfully driving change by getting stakeholders aligned around what’s > needed, and being seen as a trusted partner. Selena has built strong > credibility over many years with colleagues and also with a broader > developer community. She is described as a leader who can make the tough > decisions, develop skills, grow diverse contributors, and inspire teams. > She also has a great laugh and looks for joy in her work! > > As context for the recruitment process: given the critical need to get > this right, we used two firms with global search expertise who > specialized in product/technology executive leadership roles. This meant > double the work, but allowed us to more quickly build a large, globally > diverse pool of over 500 candidates. Once we identified a smaller number of > finalists, they participated in real-life case studies of some of our > current challenges and met with Wikimedia stakeholders over the course of > many months. > > As you all know, we have a highly unique and sometimes difficult > environment with a multifaceted mission, complex structure, and often > competing stakeholders. This is going to be a challenge for anyone, > especially given the steep learning curve at Wikimedia (which I can confirm > from my own experience!). I hope you will sign up to help me successfully > onboard Selena as she gets started! > > Selena will share her own message with you shortly, and she can be reached > directly at sdeckelm...@wikimedia.org. > > Maryana > > Maryana Iskander > > Wikimedia Foundation CEO > > *** > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/ > > > Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and > Technology Officer > > 13 June 2022, San Francisco — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced > the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology > Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla, > where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August > 1, 2022. > > Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia > Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and > innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the > most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per > month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit > Wikimedia projects each month. > > “Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling > individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said > Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her > career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.” > > At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently leads > the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all > Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web > platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most > significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow, > architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced > Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as > Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other > roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web > Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko > Security Engineering. > > Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of > Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to > improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and > as Consulting Director of Development for The Ada Initiative, an > organization that was dedicated to increasing the participation of women in > open source and technology communities. She was a major contributor to > PostgreSQL, one of the largest free and open source databases in the world. > > “Open collaboration produces better solutions for the world, and > technology is a critical enabler of making this true,” said Selena. “I look > forward to contributing to Wikimedia’s inspiring free knowledge mission.” > > As Chief Product and Technology Officer, Selena will work with Wikimedia > Foundation staff, technical contributors, volunteer developers, > researchers, and communities to support Wikimedia’s 2030 Movement Strategy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction> > to advance free and open access to knowledge. The majority of the > Foundation is focused on product and technology development in service of > our mission. > _______________________________________________ > 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/AKSEUYWBQ4H5FAJ7DRBFOH7VVLETIXVA/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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