Dear Wikimedians,
Earlier this week I informed you that Christian Rickerts might become the Undersecretary of State for the new Berlin ministry of economy, energy and enterprises. This has been confirmed today and Christian has stepped down from his WMDE role.
I am very pleased to announce that the WMDE Supervisory Board appointed Abraham Taherivand as Interim Executive Director as of 8 December 2016.
Abraham has joined WMDE in March 2012 and is the Head of our Software Development department. He has been on the transition team during the last ED search, has headed our works council and has been appointed deputy of the Executive Director recently. In his multiple roles, Abraham’s decisions have always been made in the sense of the Wikimedia Deutschland as a whole. With immediate effect, he has the full rights and duties of the Executive Director and will also continue to lead the Software Development Department.
This solution allows us as a board to approach the next steps with the necessary calmness and deliberate thought. On 28-29 January 2017, we will meet for our regular board retreat and discuss all questions regarding the permanent filling of the ED position.
Christian, once again a big thank you for your work with us. Congratulations and a good start in politics. I would like to thank you, Abraham, for your agreement to take on this crucial task and look forward to the further, close cooperation with you!
I will keep you posted on future updates in the transition process.
For the Supervisory Board Tim Moritz Hector Chair
-- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland
Congratulation Abraham.
I'm not sure welcome would be appropriate, but welcome into our new role :)
Christophe HENNER Chair of the board of trustees chenner@wikimedia.org +33650664739
twitter *@schiste* skype *christophe_henner*
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Tim Moritz Hector < tim-moritz.hector@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Dear Wikimedians,
Earlier this week I informed you that Christian Rickerts might become the Undersecretary of State for the new Berlin ministry of economy, energy and enterprises. This has been confirmed today and Christian has stepped down from his WMDE role.
I am very pleased to announce that the WMDE Supervisory Board appointed Abraham Taherivand as Interim Executive Director as of 8 December 2016.
Abraham has joined WMDE in March 2012 and is the Head of our Software Development department. He has been on the transition team during the last ED search, has headed our works council and has been appointed deputy of the Executive Director recently. In his multiple roles, Abraham’s decisions have always been made in the sense of the Wikimedia Deutschland as a whole. With immediate effect, he has the full rights and duties of the Executive Director and will also continue to lead the Software Development Department.
This solution allows us as a board to approach the next steps with the necessary calmness and deliberate thought. On 28-29 January 2017, we will meet for our regular board retreat and discuss all questions regarding the permanent filling of the ED position.
Christian, once again a big thank you for your work with us. Congratulations and a good start in politics. I would like to thank you, Abraham, for your agreement to take on this crucial task and look forward to the further, close cooperation with you!
I will keep you posted on future updates in the transition process.
For the Supervisory Board Tim Moritz Hector Chair
-- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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