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_Candid… 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 &lt;chenner(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote: CFO served Foundation she Alice movement, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Board_Recruiting_Candid… > Today the Board also voted to appoint María Sefidari as Chair and > Christophe Henner as Vice Chair. 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