Hello everyone,
I'd like to announce Ivan Nikčević as the new Executive Director of
Wikimedia Serbia.
After a two month process, and with more than 200 submissions, we finally
managed to narrow it down to one person, who we hope will be a great
contribution to our organization, and a successful leader thereof. Ivan's
first day was on Friday.
Here's a short auto-bio that he provided:
Born in the 1970, an Information Technologies engineer by education. During
his 20 years long work experience Ivan was marketing and PR manager,
journalist, TV producer, TV host and presenter and an editor in chief for a
weekly TV show on IT on Serbian national TV, he also was digital
communications consultant.
His last post before joining Wikimedia team in Serbia was project and
online communications manager in Serbian Ministry of Trade, Tourism and
Telecommunications.
Ivan was awarded twice for his exceptional contribution for development and
promotion of IT technologies in Serbia, by major professional associations
from Serbian ICT sector and was an author of a documentary film “50 years
of ICT in Serbia”.
Behind an amazing professional career, a proud father of 17 years old
daughter, a lead singer and song writer in a pop band, addicted on movies
and popcorn, pop music, internet and video games he lives his life online
and offline trying to be as one of his icons – George Carlin would say “a
modern man, digital and smoke-free; a man for the millennium.”
Cheers,
Filip Maljković
Wikimedia Serbia
President