Hi Antanan, Thanks for the update. We are thrilled to have Kathy join the team and look forward to her contributions.
Best regards, Aliyu Shaba On Wed, Nov 1, 2023, 10:21 PM Nataliia Tymkiv <ntym...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am writing with an update on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > Audit Committee Chair search process. > > You may recall that in July 2023, I wrote about the Board’s need to > identify a replacement for trustee and Audit Committee chair Tanya Capuano > [1] and the requirements that the Board had identified for the position > [2]. The Governance Committee conducted a search over a months-long > process, which included a search firm as well as a call for candidates > through the communities; the main components of the recruitment process are > described here [3]. In August at Wikimania, the Governance Committee made a > recommendation to the Board to move forward with the top finalist, and the > Board accepted it [4]. I am pleased to announce that Kathy Collins [5] will > be joining officially at our next Board meeting on December 6, 2023. > > Kathy has extensive financial and nonprofit governance experience that she > brings to this role. She has worked as a financial expert for her entire > career, across both higher education institutions and state and federal > governments in the United States. She was Vice President of Finance at Rice > University in Houston, Texas for nearly 20 years, a position she held until > last year when she retired. She has also been a trustee at Mount Holyoke > College in Massachusetts, where she served in multiple Board leadership > roles including Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Finance Committee and > member of the Audit, Governance and Development Committees and the DEI > (Diversity, > equity, and inclusion) Task Force. Her experience and expertise are very > relevant to the challenges we as the Board are seeing for this role. > Please join me in welcoming her! > > This is a planned role succession, with a very clear profile needed, and > as I mentioned before [4], over the past year, there have been quite a lot > of intentional improvements to all of our processes (e.g., recruitment, > appointments, onboarding, succession planning), so that Trustees with no or > limited Wikimedia experience can start engaging in community conferences, > events, and on-wiki discussions as soon as possible, and as the role of a > Trustee is complex, it is better if the process can start before the > official appointment, when already a certain level of knowledge is expected > to start making informed decisions. And Kathy has wasted no time in > pre-onboarding to the Wikimedia Foundation and learning about the Movement > and Board. She has been joining the Audit and Governance Committee meetings > for the past few months. Kathy also will also be joining other Trustees in > person at the WikiConference North America event in Toronto, which will be > her first community event, and also an opportunity to get to know some of > her future colleagues on the Board better. > > I would like to thank Tanya Capuano for continuing to support the > Foundation while Kathy is pre-onboarded to the Audit Committee and the > Board. Tanya has also graciously agreed to remain an Advisor to the Audit > Committee after her term officially ends in December. > > Recently, Maryana Iskander announced Talking: 2024 [6], conversations to > share, listen, and learn with intention as we all continue to plan our > future as a movement. If you would like to talk to me about this or any > other Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees topics, you can use the Let’s > Talk feature to sign up for a time to speak with me [7]. > > [1] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/OG3NQUL4HKUYPRSLUKM2RI2LRXGJRG5I/ > > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Governance_Committee/Board_recruitment > > > [3] > https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees/Recruiting_procedure > > > [4] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/PAKLDS53PN7GVLYVML6OWSTEEF5KWJ2M/ > > > [5] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/11/01/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-kathy-collins-as-new-incoming-board-trustee-and-audit-chair/ > > [6] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee/Talking:_2024#October_2023_Update_and_Invitation_to_Talking:_2024 > > [7] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Committee/Talking:_2024#Let's_talk > > 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. 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