[Foundation-l] Call for volunteers: 2009-2010 Audit Committee

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Congratulations with this highly qualified list of people for the Audit
Committee :) I hope they will have a good time and an uneventful time .. :)
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/7/20 Stuart West <stuwest at gmail.com>

> Just a quick follow-up note to thank everyone who expressed interest in
> serving on the Foundation's Audit Committee. I'm pleased to announced the
> following membership of the 2009-2010 Audit Committee, which represents a
> mix of four community members with financial backgrounds and two San
> Francisco-area business people who can help provide local oversight:
>
> * Matt Bisanz -- Matt was founding treasurer of the Wikimedia New York
> chapter and is an administrator on the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia
> Commons (User:MBisanz). His past experience includes exempt organization
> tax
> compliance with a Big Four accounting firm and federal grants reporting
> compliance in an educational setting. He holds an MBA in accounting from
> Hofstra University and a graduate certificate in strategy and leadership
> from NYU.
> * Ad Huikeshoven -- Ad Huikeshoven lives in the Hague, the Netherlands. He
> is an economist and a professional auditor, a long time trusted editor
> (User:Dedalus since 2005) and the longest server member on the Audit
> Committee (since 2007).
> * Renata Stasaityte -- Renata has been working as a tax accountant at a
> mid-size accounting firm in New York City since 2006. She has BBA in
> Accounting and MS in Taxation. She is an editor (since 2005) and an
> administrator (since 2006) on English Wikipedia (User:Renata3).
> * Anders Wennersten -- Anders lives in Stockholm and is now retired after a
> career including being senior manager at Ericsson and with an university
> degree in mathematics and economics. He is Treasurer of Wikimedia Sverige,
> a
> member of the Chapters Committee, and an active Wikipedian
> (User:Anders_Wennersten), doing over 30,000 edits a year mainly as
> patroller
> on the Swedish Wikipedia reviewing and fixing all new articles.
> * Alan Bauer -- Alan was most recently a Group President at Progressive
> Insurance, where he was responsible for $4 billion in revenue and took car
> insurance online in 1997. His non-profit experience includes serving on the
> Board of Trustees and Finance/Planning Committee of Carlton College. He has
> a BA in Math and Philosophy from Carlton and an MBA from the Univ of
> Chicago.
> * Sandy Gallanter -- Sandy is CEO of the Aspen Group, a real-estate
> development company that focuses on low-income housing. His non-profit
> experience includes serving as an officer and on the Boards of the New
> Israel Fund and the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. He earned both a
> BS and JD from Rutgers, and is an attorney and Certified Public Accountant.
> * Myself
> * Executive Director Sue Gardner, and Foundation Chair Michael Snow, both
> as
> observers
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Stu West <stu at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > As many of you know, the Foundation has an Audit Committee which
> > represents the Board in oversight of financial and accounting
> > issues, including planning, reporting, audits, and internal
> > controls (see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_committee
> > for details).  The Committee typically serves for one year,
> > starting in May/June and ending a year later when the Foundation
> > files its annual tax return in the U.S. (the IRS Form 990).  For
> > the past year, the committee has consisted of two Board members
> > (Michael Snow and me as Committee chair) and one long-serving and
> > incredibly helpful community member, Ad Huikeshoven.  We've
> > recently started forming the 2009-2010 Audit Committee, and the
> > current team has generously agreed to serve another year.
> >
> >
> >
> > We are keenly interested in increasing community participation.
> > The time commitment is modest, as far as Wikimedia goes:  review
> > the Foundation's general financial practices and draft financial
> > statements/filings, and then participate in three or four
> > conference calls during the year with the staff and our
> > independent auditors, KPMG.  The one requirement for membership
> > is "financial literacy", usually some kind of professional
> > experience with finance, accounting or audit.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you're interested in serving on the Committee, please email us
> > at audit-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org and let us know how you think
> > you could contribute.  Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > -s
> >
> >
> >
> > ===========================
> >
> > Stu West
> >
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> > Trustee & Board Treasurer
> >
> > stu  <mailto:stu at wikimedia.org> <at> wikimedia.org
> >
> > [User:Stu]
> >
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