And because I can't step down properly, a part of the email was missing,
here is the complete version
*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
University at the MediaLab-Prado.Born in Madrid, Spain, where she still
lives today, María graduated with a Psychology degree from Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, and later a Master's degree in Management and
Tourism at the Business faculty of the same university. She was a 2014
Techweek Women’s Leadership Fellow, which showcases, celebrates, and
supports emerging female leaders in business and technology.María started
contributing to the Wikimedia projects in 2006, and has since served in
many different roles across the Wikimedia movement. María was a founding
member of Wikimedia España and Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias, and also
created Spanish Wikipedia's LGBT Wikiproject. She has served on several
Wikimedia governance committees, including the Affiliations and Individual
Engagement Grants committees. In her time on the Affiliations Committee,
María served as the first Treasurer of the committee, effectively
overseeing and monitoring disbursement of the committee's budget. From 2013
to 2015, she was also a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board.María
re-joined the Wikimedia Foundation Board in 2016 to fill an
community-nominated seat vacancy, and was later re-confirmed for a second
term in August 2017.In her spare time, María travels around the world, runs
wiki-workshops to engage new editors, and supports Real Madrid Club de
Fútbol.About Christophe HennerChristophe Henner is the former Board Chair
of Wikimedia France and current Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Blade
Group, a cloud computing company headquartered in France. At Blade,
Christophe is scaling up operations to support the company's transition
from a start-up to a global company.Originally from Lavaur, Christophe
studied economics and law at the University of Toulouse. He has deep and
varied experience across the marketing sector, holding a variety of
leadership positions including Head of Marketing at the online media group,
L'Odyssée Interactive, Chief Marketing Officer at an international digital
media group, Webedia, and later deputy Chief Executive Officer of Webedia's
gaming division.Christophe has been an active member of the Wikimedia
community for more than 12 years. In 2007, he joined the Board of Wikimedia
France and has remained an active Board member in various positions for the
past ten years. Nearly three of those years on the Board were spent in
leadership roles, including Chair and Vice Chair of the Board.During his
time on the Board, Christophe helped lead Wikimedia France through a
significant period of growth. This included leading the development of the
chapter’s brand and supporting the development of a clear organizational
strategy and vision for the chapter.About Raju NarisettiRaju Narisetti is a
professor of Professional Practice and director of the Knight-Bagehot
Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University. He
recently served as the CEO of Gizmodo Media Group, the Univision
Communications Inc owned publisher of pioneering digital brands.Born in
Hyderabad, India, Raju holds a Bachelor’s degree from Osmania University in
Hyderabad, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Institute of
Rural Management in Anand (India); a post-graduate diploma from The Times
School of Journalism in New Delhi; and a Master’s in Journalism from
Indiana University.Over nearly three decades, Raju has led and transformed
news organizations in three continents.Raju began his journalism career at
The Economic Times in New Delhi and later went on to found India’s Mint
Newspaper, now the second largest business newspaper in the country. He
spent 15 years at The Wall Street Journal, starting as a summer intern and
in a variety of reporting and editing roles, including the Editor of The
Wall Street Journal Europe; Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street
Journal; and Managing Editor of WSJ Digital.Raju also served as Managing
Editor at The Washington Post, where he was instrumental in combining its
print and digital newsrooms, in addition to overseeing its editing, design,
photo, video, engagement and social media teams.Prior to his work at
Gizmodo, Raju was Senior Vice President, Strategy, at News Corp, the
publisher of The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal.Raju is the
Vice-chair for the Board of Directors of the International Center for
Journalists, as well as as a member of the Board of Trustees for the
Institute of International Education, which administers the Fulbright
Scholarship programmes the Scholar Rescue Fund. He lives in Brooklyn, New
York.Nataliia TymkivNataliia Tymkiv currently serves as Financial Director
of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law, a Ukrainian media policy and
human rights nonprofit. Nataliia grew up in Western Ukraine and has a
Masters degree in Public Administration and a Specialist degree in Records
Management and Information Activities. She has in-depth experience in
executive leadership and financial management. Prior to her current role as
Financial Director, Nataliia worked at a manufacturing firm and later, in
finance at a construction company.On the Wikimedia projects, Nataliia has
been an active contributor since 2011, and shortly after became an
administrator of Ukrainian Wikipedia. She has also been a member of the
Wikimedia Ukraine community for nearly four years.In late 2012, Nataliia
joined the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine as Treasurer. In this position,
Nataliia built the financial model for the chapter from the ground up,
including detailed financial reporting, accounting, and grant-making
activities for the organization. Nataliia was later selected to serve as
volunteer Executive Director of Wikimedia Ukraine in 2013 in addition to
her position on the Board. In 2015, she returned to her position as Vice
Chair and Treasurer of the Board.Throughout her time on the Board, Nataliia
helped oversee the growth and expansion of Wikimedia Ukraine in a number of
ways, including improvements in transparency and governance-related
processes for the chapter, the transition to Annual Plan Grants (APG)
funding, growing Wikimedia Ukraine staff, and building and maintaining
donor, partner, and community relationships.*
Christophe HENNER
Broken stool of the board of trustees
chenner(a)wikimedia.org
+33650664739
twitter *@schiste* skype *christophe_henner*
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 5:29 PM Christophe Henner <chenner(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
*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 *
Christophe HENNER
Stool of the board of trustees
chenner(a)wikimedia.org
+33650664739
twitter *@schiste* skype *christophe_henner*