Welcome Lila and best wishes.
Ali Haidar Khan Wikimedia Bangladesh On May 2, 2014 6:59 AM, "Paolo B." titopao@gmail.com wrote:
On behalf of Wikimedia Philippines, congratulations, Lila! We wish you all the best and we look forward to working with you. Mabuhay at maligayang pagdating!
Paolo Barazon Chairman of the Board of Trustees Wikimedia Philippines
On 5/2/14, Markus Glaser markus.glaser@wikimedia.de wrote:
Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!
Best, Markus
Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the Foundation, Lila! Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.
Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the past year.
Best, Tim
Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:
Congratulations, Lila! On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout" frans@wikimedia.nl wrote:
Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to Jan-Bart & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great news to the Dutch board & community. Frans Grijzenhout
2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevreede@wikimedia.org:
Dear fellow community members,
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader, most recently with SugarCRM.
As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
to
step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
spent
some time working through the most critical requirements for the role. We decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
background,
ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We
wanted
someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context.
We
wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments, and with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with courage and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts to censor the projects.
Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
as
a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
open
source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started
her
career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director
of
development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based
wireless
data
services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as
the
organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing, customer support and professional services, engineering, and product development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious, and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode, and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding
of
the Wikimedia projects.
I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of
the
Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years, Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of
purpose,
and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to
rely
on her support in the months and years ahead.
In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
Lila.
She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next. Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in
August.
The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Wikimedia Board of Trustees
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