[Foundation-l] [Announcement] New Head of Business Development: KulWadhwa

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I wish Kul all the best for his new position.

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From: "Sue Gardner" <sgardner at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:38 AM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] [Announcement] New Head of Business Development: 
KulWadhwa

> Hi folks,
>
> I’m delighted to announce that Kul Takanao Wadhwa is the Wikimedia 
> Foundation’s new Head of Business Development. Kul (pronounced “cool”) 
> starts with us today, January 3.
>
> Kul joins us from Stanford University, where he was new business and 
> partnerships manager. He has more than a decade of management and business 
> development experience, including senior roles at a variety of high-tech 
> start-ups such as CyberTrust Japan, B.U.G., and Pangea2, where he worked 
> on deals throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Kul has also done 
> economic research at the nonprofit global policy think tank the RAND 
> Corporation, and has worked in TV (NBC) and in the videogame and digital 
> animation industry (Satelight, Japan).
>
> Kul has an M.A. in international policy studies and a B.A. in political 
> science, both from Stanford. He speaks Japanese, as well as some 
> Portuguese and Spanish. He's been a volunteer with nonprofits aimed at 
> helping at-risk youth and homeless people, and is a frequent user of the 
> Wikimedia projects, particularly Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and
> Wikiversity.
>
> Kul’s job will be to develop and execute the Foundation's business 
> development strategy. He'll identify and develop deals with for-profit 
> companies, particularly where those deals help us make the projects' 
> materials available to more people, in more ways, around the world. 
> Business development at a nonprofit is all about putting together deals 
> that bring in money while simultaneously advancing the mission: I am 
> confident Kul can do that for us.
>
> Vishal Patel, who has been handling business development for the 
> Foundation since May, will remain with us until the St. Petersburg office 
> closes on January 31. Please join me in thanking Vishal for everything he 
> has done in the past six months, and in welcoming Kul to Wikimedia.
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
>
> Sue Gardner
> Executive Director,
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
>
>
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