Thanks Greg. Kelly, I'm wondering if you can comment on the role of this committee outside of audit-related tasks. My understanding is that this committee also functions as a general-purpose finance and budget committee for the WMF Board.
Thanks, Pine On Apr 4, 2016 13:54, "Greg Varnum" <gvar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Forward on behalf of Kelly Battles. > > > > Hello All - > > My name is Kelly Bodnar Battles and I am honored to have joined the > Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in January of this year. > > Professionally, I am a Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and a material part > of my near term Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board responsibilities will be > to chair the Audit Committee. Currently, the voting members of the Audit > Committee are myself, Alice Wiegand, María Sefidari and Denny Vrandečić. > WMF’s CFO and Treasurer Jaime Villagomez is also an important stakeholder > on this committee as well. > > As you may know, we have the precedent of having non-voting members > (please see role definition below) from outside the board participate in > the Audit Committee as well. Toward that end, I would like to: > > - First and foremost, thank Matt Bisanz, Michael Snow, Abhijith > Jayanthi, Ben Creasy and Florian Gerl for participating in this committee > as non-voting members in the recent past. > > - Request that if you are interested (or know of other volunteers in > the community who may be interested) in serving in this capacity for this > next cycle (from selection through June 2017), please send to me at this > email address (kbatt...@wikimedia.org <mailto:kbatt...@wikimedia.org>) > your resume, the top 3 reasons why you want to do this and the top 3 things > you will add to the Audit Committee. > > - Propose the following steps and timeline for the selection process: > - Candidates submit their interest and the above information to > me no later than April 15 > - The Audit Committee will interview top 4 candidates by May 10 > - The Audit Committee will select the top 2 candidate by May 15 > - Selected candidates join the Audit committee by June 1 and > attend July Audit Committee meeting > > - Outline the following important preferences for candidates > interested in this role: > - 5+ years of operational finance and or accounting experience > - Solid understanding of the mission and operations of WMF > - Prior executive or board experience > - CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or MBA (Masters in Business > Administration), or equivalent earned > - Capacity to commit an estimated 20-30 hours annually to attend > both quarterly and other ad-hoc meetings, prepare or review required > materials, and interact with committee, staff and/or board as required. > > Once again, I am thrilled to be part of this amazing organization. Thank > you for the warm welcome I have received so far. > > Best, > Kelly > > See link for Audit Committee charter > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter < > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Audit_Committee_charter> > This message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/2016_call_for_Audit_Committee_observers > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/2016_call_for_Audit_Committee_observers > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: 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 New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
