Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:29:55 +0100
From: Michael@maggs.name
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia UK's members elect new trustees
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 September at
the Bodleian Library,
Oxford, where officer roles will be reviewed.
Please
join me in welcoming the new board.
Michael
Maggs
Chair,
Wikimedia UK
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