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Russian-American engineer and Wikimedian

Lila Tretikov
Ляля Третьякова
Tretikov in 2014
BornOlga Tretyakova
(1978-01-25) January 25, 1978 (age 46)
Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
OccupationFormer executive director of Wikimedia Foundation
Tretikov's voice recorded September 2014

Lila Tretikov (/ˈlaɪlə ˈtrɛtɪkɒf/) (born Olga (Lyalya) Tretyakova, Russian: Ольга (Ляля) Третьяко́ва, January 25, 1978) is a Russian-American engineer and manager.

Early life and education

Tretikov was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. 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.

Tretikov introduced to WMF employees.

Career

In 1999, Tretikov began working as a software engineer in California, where she co-authored several software patents and was a specialist in enterprise software.

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 Misplaced Pages only once before her appointment. 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. She was 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. Tretikov is also on the boards of OpenEd and Rackspace, and joined the board of directors of Volvo Cars in March 2021. She joined Microsoft Corporation in 2018, and currently is listed as its Corporate Vice President & Deputy Chief Technology Officer.

See also

Notes

  1. "Lyalya" is a Russian-language diminutive from the first name "Olga"

References

  1. Deubner, Chip (May 1, 2014). WMF Monthly Metrics Meeting (Videotape) – via Wikimedia Commons.
  2. "Reimagining the arts with immersive technology". Microsoft. August 6, 2019. Archived from the original on September 27, 2022.
  3. Rayman, Noah. "Saving Misplaced Pages: Meet Lila Tretikov". TIME. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
  4. Swartz, Jon (November 27, 2012). "Women band together, make inroads into tech". USA Today. Retrieved February 23, 2024.
  5. "Misplaced Pages 15: Lightning Talk Session". YouTube. January 16, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  6. ^ Seligman, Katherine (May 13, 2014). "The Woman To Run Misplaced Pages: Russian-born Former Cal Student Seen as "White Unicorn"". California Magazine. UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on August 24, 2014. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  7. ^ Hern, Alex (February 26, 2016). "Head of Wikimedia resigns over search engine plans". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "Online-Enzyklopädie: Chefin der Misplaced Pages-Stiftung tritt zurück". Spiegel Online. February 26, 2016.
  9. "Executive Profile: Lila Tretikov". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on May 1, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  10. "Stevie Awards For Women in Business: 2012 Stevie Award Winners". stevieawards.com. Fairfax, VA: Stevie Awards, Inc. May 2, 2013. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  11. ^ Kiss, Jemima; Gibbs, Samuel. "Misplaced Pages boss Lila Tretikov: 'Glasnost taught me much about freedom of information'". The Guardian. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  12. "Patent Search". United States Patent and Trademark Office. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
  13. Elder, Jeff (May 2014). "Misplaced Pages's New Chief: From Soviet Union to World's Sixth-Largest Site". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  14. Cohen, Noam (May 2, 2014). "Open-Source Software Specialist Selected as Executive Director of Misplaced Pages". New York Times. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
  15. Lila Tretikov (February 25, 2016). "Thank you for our time together". Wikimedia Foundation.
  16. "Meet the Young, Tech-Savvy, Civic-Minded Innovators Driving The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Press releases". World Economic Forum. March 16, 2016. Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  17. Hart, Michael (August 25, 2014). "Wikimedia Foundation Director Named to OpenEd Board". THE Journal.
  18. "Volvo Cars appoints Lila Tretikov and Diarmuid O'Connell to Board of Directors". March 30, 2021.
  19. "Lila Tretikov | Xylem US". www.xylem.com. Retrieved November 8, 2022.

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