Hi folks,
I’m delighted to announce that Veronique Kessler will be the Wikimedia Foundation’s new Chief Financial and Operating Officer (CFOO). Veronique will start with us February 4.
Veronique has 15 years of very strong managerial and financial experience working with a wide range of organizations. She joins us from the non-profit Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where she was Director of Finance and, before that, Controller. Prior to JCCSF, she did financial consulting for clients such as Stanford University, brokerage firm Charles Schwab, and the venture capital and investment firm Berkeley International Capital Corporation. And before that, she was Controller for the Walden International Investment Group, financial reporting manager for the private investment company The Fremont Group, a senior accountant with the Wells Fargo bank, and a senior auditor with Deloitte & Touche, one of the world’s “big four” audit firms.
Veronique is a CPA (certified public accountant), with a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has a strong and varied international background including work with Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, and she speaks fluent French.
The role of the Wikimedia Foundation’s CFOO is to oversee our financial and operational activities. In general, Veronique will ensure that the Foundation operates smoothly, effectively, and in compliance with 501(c) standards and generally-accepted accounting principles.
She will report to me. The heads of business development (Kul Wadhwa) and fundraising (hiring in progress) will report to her, as will our office manager (Erica Ortega), my assistant (Cheryl Owens, formerly Steffen), and our accountant (currently Oleta McHenry, in St. Petersburg).
The Chief Financial and Operating Officer is a critical position for the Wikimedia Foundation, and I am thrilled we have found such a highly-qualified person to handle this important role. Veronique's delighted to be joining us – she’s excited by the importance and global impact of our work, and is looking forward to being part of the open-source and free culture movement.
Please join me in welcoming her to the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thanks, Sue
Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
Impressive resume Veronique. ;-) Welcome aboard!
On Jan 29, 2008 7:35 PM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm delighted to announce that Veronique Kessler will be the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief Financial and Operating Officer (CFOO). Veronique will start with us February 4.
Veronique has 15 years of very strong managerial and financial experience working with a wide range of organizations. She joins us from the non-profit Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where she was Director of Finance and, before that, Controller. Prior to JCCSF, she did financial consulting for clients such as Stanford University, brokerage firm Charles Schwab, and the venture capital and investment firm Berkeley International Capital Corporation. And before that, she was Controller for the Walden International Investment Group, financial reporting manager for the private investment company The Fremont Group, a senior accountant with the Wells Fargo bank, and a senior auditor with Deloitte & Touche, one of the world's "big four" audit firms.
Veronique is a CPA (certified public accountant), with a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has a strong and varied international background including work with Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, and she speaks fluent French.
The role of the Wikimedia Foundation's CFOO is to oversee our financial and operational activities. In general, Veronique will ensure that the Foundation operates smoothly, effectively, and in compliance with 501(c) standards and generally-accepted accounting principles.
She will report to me. The heads of business development (Kul Wadhwa) and fundraising (hiring in progress) will report to her, as will our office manager (Erica Ortega), my assistant (Cheryl Owens, formerly Steffen), and our accountant (currently Oleta McHenry, in St. Petersburg).
The Chief Financial and Operating Officer is a critical position for the Wikimedia Foundation, and I am thrilled we have found such a highly-qualified person to handle this important role. Veronique's delighted to be joining us – she's excited by the importance and global impact of our work, and is looking forward to being part of the open-source and free culture movement.
Please join me in welcoming her to the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thanks, Sue
Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
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On Jan 29, 2008 4:35 PM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm delighted to announce that Veronique Kessler will be the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief Financial and Operating Officer (CFOO). Veronique will start with us February 4.
Veronique has 15 years of very strong managerial and financial experience working with a wide range of organizations. She joins us from the non-profit Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where she was Director of Finance and, before that, Controller. Prior to JCCSF, she did financial consulting for clients such as Stanford University, brokerage firm Charles Schwab, and the venture capital and investment firm Berkeley International Capital Corporation. And before that, she was Controller for the Walden International Investment Group, financial reporting manager for the private investment company The Fremont Group, a senior accountant with the Wells Fargo bank, and a senior auditor with Deloitte & Touche, one of the world's "big four" audit firms.
Veronique is a CPA (certified public accountant), with a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has a strong and varied international background including work with Hong Kong, China, Indonesia, Taiwan and Singapore, and she speaks fluent French.
The role of the Wikimedia Foundation's CFOO is to oversee our financial and operational activities. In general, Veronique will ensure that the Foundation operates smoothly, effectively, and in compliance with 501(c) standards and generally-accepted accounting principles.
She will report to me. The heads of business development (Kul Wadhwa) and fundraising (hiring in progress) will report to her, as will our office manager (Erica Ortega), my assistant (Cheryl Owens, formerly Steffen), and our accountant (currently Oleta McHenry, in St. Petersburg).
The Chief Financial and Operating Officer is a critical position for the Wikimedia Foundation, and I am thrilled we have found such a highly-qualified person to handle this important role. Veronique's delighted to be joining us – she's excited by the importance and global impact of our work, and is looking forward to being part of the open-source and free culture movement.
Please join me in welcoming her to the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thanks, Sue
Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
Great news. Hopefully this, and the long-awaited release of the financial statement, will put a lot of people's minds at ease on the Foundations' finances.
Welcome Veronique!
____________________ Mitch D. (Greeves on all English Wikimedia projects)
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sue Gardner Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 6:35 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] New CFOO: Veronique Kessler
<snip> Please join me in welcoming her to the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Thanks, Sue </snip>
It sounds like you've found an extremely well qualified CFOO! Congratulations, Veronique, and welcome!
One question, Sue, is it normal for the ED's assistant not to report directly to the ED? Seems strange to me...
Thomas Dalton wrote:
It sounds like you've found an extremely well qualified CFOO! Congratulations, Veronique, and welcome!
One question, Sue, is it normal for the ED's assistant not to report directly to the ED? Seems strange to me...
It's probably not that normal :-)
But I have always set it up so that my assistant officially reports to the head of admin. It's just to ensure all the admin relationships are synched up together - because they work on the same kinds of things, need to follow the same procedures, help back each other up when someone is sick or away, etc. All that stuff.
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