Lila Tretikov ; born Olga Tretyakova, Russian: Ольга 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.
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.
Lila Tretikov (2014) as quoted by [Jemima Kiss and Samuel Gibbs, Wikipedia boss Lila Tretikov, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/06/wikipedia-lila-tretikov-glasnost-freedom-of-information, The Guardian, 2014-08-06] and repeated in the closing statement in [Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (2nd Edition), http://www.worldcat.org/title/facebook-nation-total-information-awareness/oclc/885416529, Springer Science+Business Media, 2014-10-17, 361]
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