Native name Lyalya Tret'yakova Employer Wikimedia Foundation Role Executive | Name Lila Tretikov Nationality Russian | |
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Born January 25, 1978 (age 46) ( 1978-01-25 ) Moscow, USSR Occupation Executive director of Wikimedia Foundation | ||
A talk with lila tretikov on wikimedia and the power of the internet
Lila Tretikov (/ˈlaɪ̯lə ˈtrɛtɪkɔf/), born Olga (Lyalya) Tretyakova (Russian: Ольга (Ляля) Третьяко́ва; January 25, 1978 in Moscow) is a Russian–American engineer and manager, who was executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2014 to 2016.
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- A talk with lila tretikov on wikimedia and the power of the internet
- Martijn talks to lila tretikov executive director of the wikimedia foundation
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Born in Moscow, she emigrated to the United States as a teenager and in 1999 began working as a software engineer in California, where she co-authored several software patents and also founded a technology marketing company. A specialist in enterprise software, she was chief information officer and vice president of engineering at SugarCRM Inc, before succeeding Sue Gardner at the Wikimedia Foundation in 2014.
On February 25, 2016, Tretikov tendered her resignation, effective March 31, as a result of the WMF's handling of the Knowledge Engine project.
Martijn talks to lila tretikov executive director of the wikimedia foundation
Early life and education
Tretikov is of Russian and Swedish heritage. Her father is a mathematician and her mother was a filmmaker. After moving to New York City at age 15, she learned English while waitressing and attended the University of California, Berkeley, but left before completing her degree. Her majors were computer science and art, and she researched machine learning.
Career
In 1999, Tretikov started her professional career at Sun Microsystems, as an engineer at the Sun-Netscape Alliance, where she worked on the Java server. She then founded GrokDigital, a technology marketing company, and was later appointed chief information officer and vice president of engineering at SugarCRM Inc.
In 2012, she was a Stevie Awards bronze winner in the category for "Female Executive of the Year—Business Services—11 to 2,500 Employees—Computer Hardware & Software". She has co-authored several patents in intelligent data mapping and dynamic language applications.
Tretikov was appointed executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2014 in succession to Sue Gardner, and took up the post on June 1, 2014. She had edited Wikipedia only once before her appointment.
Tretikov is also on the boards of OpenEd and Rackspace and is an advisor to the board of Zamurai Corporation.
Tretikov resigned from the Wikimedia Foundation, as a result of the WMF's controversial Knowledge Engine project and disagreements with the staff, with her last day being March 31, 2016 (succeeded by Katherine Maher in March 2016). On March 16, 2016, it was announced that Tretikov had been invited by the World Economic Forum to join its "Young Global Leaders" community.