Congratulations to the new board members. Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Michael Maggs <mich...@maggs.name> wrote: > I am very pleased to announce that at our annual general meeting on > Saturday 25 July the members of Wikimedia UK elected three new trustees to > the board from a very strong slate of candidates. > > Please join me in offering a very warm welcome to Doug Taylor, Nick Poole > and Josie Fraser. > > Doug Taylor will be well known to many readers as a long-standing active > Wikimedia volunteer and Lead Trainer for WMUK. He previously served on the > board during 2012-13. Doug is a retired teacher and IT professional. > > Nick Poole is the Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Institute of > Library and Information Professionals. His previous roles include serving > as CEO of the Collections Trust and Chair of the Europeana Network. He > brings extensive knowledge of and influence in the international GLAM > community, and has strong connections to policymakers and funders in the UK > and Europe. > > Josie Fraser has for the past five years worked in local government as the > strategic technology lead of one of the country's largest and most > accelerated school building programmes. She is an expert in the > relationship between education and technology and a vocal advocate for free > and open knowledge. > > Existing trustees Greyham Dawes (treasurer) and myself (chair) were > re-elected. > > Three trustees have stepped down from the board: Alastair McCapra, Saad > Choudri and Joseph Seddon. We thank them for their exceptional expertise, > commitment and diligence, and we wish them well for the future. > > With these changes, the new board is as follows: > > Michael Maggs (board chair, and chair of governance committee) > Simon Knight (vice chair) > Greyham Dawes (treasurer, governance committee, audit and risk committee) > Chris Keating (audit and risk committee) > Carol Campbell (chair of audit and risk committee) > Kate West (governance committee, audit and risk committee) > Gill Hamilton > Doug Taylor > Nick Poole > Josie Fraser > > The new board will formally meet for the first time on Saturday 12 > Septemberat the Bodleian Library, Oxford, where officer roles will be > reviewed. > > Please join me in welcoming the new board. > > Michael Maggs > > Chair, Wikimedia UK > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>