Congratulations and a warm welcome from Brazil, Lila!
Wish you all the best in such challenging and important position.
Also many thanks to Sue, for all her work and vision.
Please feel free to ask us anything if it's helpful in the onboarding
process.
Oona
On 1 May 2014 16:51, Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations, Lila!
On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout" <frans(a)wikimedia.nl> wrote:
Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in
London. And thanks to
Jan-Bart
& the other members of the transition team. I
will forward this great
news
to the Dutch board & community.
Frans Grijzenhout
2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede <jdevreede(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> Dear fellow community members,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted
to
> announce that the new Executive Director of
the Wikimedia Foundation
will
> be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected
Bay Area technology
leader,
most
recently with SugarCRM.
As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
to
step down as our ED. As we launched the search
for her successor, we
spent
> some time working through the most critical requirements for the role.
We
decided
the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
background,
> ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
> someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
> staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
> continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
> wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
> openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments,
and
> with an international orientation. We knew
we needed someone with
courage
> and strong personal integrity, who
wouldn't be intimidated by attempts
to
censor
the projects.
Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
as
a teenager. She's been working for technology
companies, primarily in
open
> source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
> career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
GrokDigital, a
technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director
of
development at Telespree, a company that provides
cloud-based wireless
data
> services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
> SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
> organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
> customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
> development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
> skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
>
> We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition
Team
> (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle
and I) voted unanimously
to
> recommend her to the Board, and the Board
voted unanimously to accept
the
> recommendation. She strikes all of us as
smart, brave and
unpretentious,
> and we believe she has the skills the WMF
needs.
>
> Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
mode,
> and will take over the ED position from Sue
at the end of the month.
Her
> first priority will be to immerse herself in
deepening her
understanding
of
> the Wikimedia projects.
>
> I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
> appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
> Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I
hired
> Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little
non-profit in small-town
> Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven
years,
> Sue's leadership has built the
Foundation into an effective,
well-funded
and
well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of
purpose,
> and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
> integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be
forever
grateful
for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to
rely
on her support in the months and years ahead.
In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
Lila.
> She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
> wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do
next.
Many of
us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in
August.
The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair
Wikimedia Board of Trustees
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