Lila Tretikov

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Lila Tretikov (born as Russian Ольга "Ляля" Алексеевна Третьякова Olga "Lyalja" Alexejewna Tretyakova ; born January 25, 1978 in Moscow ) is a Russian - American computer scientist and manager . From June 2014 to March 2016, she was the successor to Sue Gardner , Managing Director of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco .

Life

Tretikov, the daughter of a mathematician and a filmmaker, moved from Moscow to New York City at the age of 16 after the collapse of the Soviet Union . She acquired her English skills through a temporary job as a waitress. She studied computer science and art at the University of California, Berkeley .

Without a degree, Tretikov began her professional career at Sun Microsystems in 1999 , and shortly afterwards she founded the marketing company GrokDigital . For three years she worked in the development department of Telespree Communications , a telecommunications company in San Francisco. From 2006 to 2014 Tretikov worked at SugarCRM , an open source company, among other things, developing programs for the management of customers, patients, employees - where she was most recently Chief Information Officer and Chief Product Officer . At the beginning of June 2014 she took over the management of the Wikimedia Foundation. In a first statement, she pleaded for more diversity in Wikipedia . On March 31, 2016, she left office at her own request. This was preceded by a long smoldering argument about their leadership style and their proposals to turn the Wikimedia Foundation into a software organization as a competitor of Google with the help of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation . Her successor is the former head of public relations at the Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher ; after a transitional activity, Maher has held the position on a permanent basis since June 2016.

In 2014 Tretikov took a seat on the board of the Zamurai Corporation . She is the owner or co-owner of several patents in the areas of “intelligent data mapping” and “dynamic language applications”.

Tretikov has been Managing Director of the Paris Terrawatt Initiative since 2017 .

Awards

In 2012 she received a bronze Stevie Award in the category Female Executive of the Year - Business Services - 11 to 2,500 Employees - Computer Hardware & Software . In 2014, she was ranked 99th on Forbes Magazine 's The World's 100 Most Powerful Women .

Web links

Commons : Lila Tretikov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lila Tretikov in the CrunchBase , accessed on May 2, 2014 (English).
  2. ↑ Jan-Bart de Vreede: Announcing our new Executive Director: Lila Tretikov , blog.wikimedia.org, May 1, 2014 (English); Torsten Kleinz: Wikimedia gets new boss , Heise online , May 2, 2014.
  3. ^ Online encyclopedia: Head of the Wikipedia Foundation resigns , Spiegel Online , February 26, 2016; accessed on February 26, 2016.
  4. ^ Jon Swartz: Women band together, make inroads into tech , USA Today , November 27, 2012
  5. ↑ The Woman To Run Wikipedia: Russian-born Former Cal Student Seen as “White Unicorn” . Article by Katherine Seligman, May 9, 2014, on the UC Berkley Cal Alumni Association website
  6. ↑ Tele Spree on LinkedIn (English)
  7. ^ Online lexicon. Wikipedia Foundation gets a new boss . Handelsblatt online, May 2, 2014
  8. ^ "Increasing diversity is very important. Our mission is all about bringing knowledge to everyone - if some are left out, that is not everyone. "In: Noam Cohen: Open-Source Software Specialist Selected as Executive Director of Wikipedia , The New York Times , May 1, 2014 (English )
  9. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard / 25 February 2016 - Executive transition planning . Message from Patricio Lorente
  10. ^ Perfect successor , Süddeutsche Zeitung from 25/26. June 2016, p. 27.
  11. ↑ Patricio Lorente, Christophe Henner: Foundation Board appoints Katherine Maher as Executive Director. In: Blog of the Wikimedia Foundation. June 24, 2016, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Lila Tretikov at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (English)
  13. ↑ Our Team - Terrawatt Initiative. Archived from the original on March 23, 2018 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 (English).
  14. ↑ Winner of the Stevie Awards 2012 (English)
  15. ↑ Lila Tretikov on forbes.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Tretikov, Lila
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Третьякова, Ольга Алексеевна (Russian-Cyrillic); Ляля (nickname); Tretyakova, Olga Alexejewna (Russian-Latin); Lyalja (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American computer scientist and manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow