*Hello everyone,I am happy to make some announcements about the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. As of today, Tanya Capuano has formally joined the Board. Tanya is an experienced financial professional who has worked as a Vice President of Finance for Intuit, and more recently as CFO for the software firm G5. She is passionate about education, having served on the boards of various educational nonprofits.Tanya will enrich the financial and accounting skills critical to the oversight of the Foundation and to her role as Chair of the Foundation’s Audit Committee, to which she was also elected today. Please join me in warming welcoming her in the Wikimedia movement. As Tanya joins us, we also see Kelly Battles and Alice Wiegand, two very valuable trustees, leave us as their terms of service come to a close. Both of them have been stellar trustees who helped the board and the Foundation grow and become a more robust organisation.Kelly and Alice, you have brought so much to the Foundation and to the movement, and it has been an immense pleasure serving with you. I can only hope, as has often been the case with other former trustees, our movement will be lucky enough we keep seeing both of you around and that you keep on bringing your experience, skills, and wisdom to all of us. As you might have noticed we still are one trustee short, with a total of nine. We are currently searching for a tenth Trustee, with a technology and platform background; you can read the profile here on Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Board_Recruiting_Candidate_Packet_May_2018.pdf. Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. After serving as Chair for two terms, I decided to step down and support María as Chair, hopefully as effectively as she served me and the organization when she was my Vice Chair. María and I both have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and prior to coming to the Foundation, held leadership roles in local Wikimedia organizations.In addition, the Board re-elected Nataliia Tymkiv as Chair of the Board Governance Committee, supported by BGC members James Heilman and Dariusz Jemielniak, and alternates Raju Narisetti and María. We also elected Raju as Chair of the Human Resources Committee, with members María and Dariusz. Finally, as noted, we elected Tanya Capuano as Chair of the Audit Committee, with Christophe and Raju as members and María and Jimmy as alternates. More about Christophe, María, and the Committee Chairs are below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new positions and wish them success in their terms ahead.On a more personal note, I would like to thank everyone for the last two years. This is not farewell, but the last two years have been a roller coaster and I am proud I had the chance to serve as Chair and helped us building up the future of the movement. We have achieved a lot in the last 24 months, and the best is yet to come!ChristopheAbout Tanya CapuanoTanya Pine Capuano most recently was the chief financial officer (CFO) of the data-driven marketing company G5 in Bend, Oregon. Originally from San Jose, California, she has wide-ranging experience including strategy and financial planning and analysis in technology. In addition to her recent role at G5, she has also worked for Hewlett-Packard and Intuit.She has also supported numerous education initiatives throughout her career; including serving on the boards of Education Pioneers, Los Altos Educational Foundation, and “I Have a Dream” Foundation San Francisco, an organization whose San Francisco chapter she co-founded.She is very involved with Stanford University alumni life, having earned a bachelor's in economics, a master's in education, and a master of business administration from the university. After graduating, she worked as the university’s Director of Alumni Relations and Development Director for the Initiative on Improving K-12 Education. She has also served on the board of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.Tanya lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children. They enjoy traveling as a family and outdoor sports.About María SefidariMaría Sefidari Huici is a professor in the Digital Communications, Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program of Rey Juan Carlos *
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