Lila Tretikov

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Person.png Lila Tretikov  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businesswoman)
Lila Tretikov April 2014 (5) crop.jpg
BornOlga Alekseeva Tretikov
January 25, 1978
Moscow, Soviet Union
NationalityUS, Russian?
SpouseWil Sinclair
Member ofWEF/Young Global Leaders/2016
Interests• Artificial Intelligence
Leader of Wikimedia Foundation 2014-16, when she had to quit. World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2016. Corporate vice president at Microsoft from 2018.

Employment.png Microsoft/Vice President

In office
2018 - Present

Employment.png Wikimedia Foundation/Executive director

In office
1 June 2014 - March 2016
Succeeded byKatherine Maher

Lila Tretikov is a Russian–American engineer and manager, and a corporate vice president at Microsoft , where she got the job after having failed at the Wikimedia Foundation. In September 2021 she also became leader of the Board of Directors at Cervest where she was to help get the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence and EarthScanTM product to market. [1][2]

In 2016 the World Economic Forum selected Tretikov to its Young Global Leaders program.[3]

Background

Tretikov is of Russian heritage. Her father is a mathematician, and her mother was a filmmaker.[4] After moving to New York City at age 15,[5] she learned English while waitressing and attended the University of California, Berkeley, but left before completing her degree.[6] Her majors were computer science and art, and she researched machine learning.[6]

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.[7][8]

Tretikov started her 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.[9] 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".[10] She has co-authored several patents in intelligent data mapping and dynamic language applications.[11]

Tretikov was appointed executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation in May 2014 in succession to Sue Gardner[12][13] and took up the post on June 1, 2014.[11][6] According to the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, 1,300 candidates from 81 countries took part in the selection for the post of executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, in which Tretikov won. The newspaper called Lila's career "the American dream come true"[14]. Tretikov's appointment was controversial among some community members, since she had edited Wikipedia only once before.

She received a six-figure golden parachute after she was forced to resign for attempting to conceal the development of the Wikipedia “Knowledge Engine,” a major search engine project intended to drive traffic to Wikipedia by wresting market share from Google, and for disagreements with the staff.[7][8][15] She was succeeded by Katherine Maher in March 2016. [16]

Before joining Microsoft, Tretikov was SVP of Engie SA, a multinational energy company, and CEO and Vice Chairman of the Terrawatt Initative, a subsidiary focused on altering the Earth's ecology through energy transition to CO2-negative systems.

Tretikov is also on the boards of OpenEd[17] and Rackspace,[18] and joined the board of directors of Volvo Cars in March 2021.[19]

Cervest

In September 2021 she became leader of the Board of Directors at Cervest where she was to help get the world's first AI-powered Climate Intelligence and EarthScanTM product to market. [20]

Iggy Bassi, CEO of Cervest, said "she understands the strategic and operational issues CEOs face and shares our vision that Climate Intelligence will one day be at the core of all business decision-making. Her leadership will prove extremely valuable as we bring the Cervest platform to enterprises and governments worldwide." [20]

Powered by a stated "groundbreaking Earth Science AI technology", Cervest's Climate Intelligence platform combines climate data, machine learning and statistical models to present a unified view of climate risk across millions of global assets for the first time. By making sure its more companies use its automated platform, Cervest incentivizes everyone to share and integrate Climate Intelligence into everyday decisions. [20]


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References

  1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cervest-appoints-lila-tretikov-chairperson-of-board-of-directors-301375637.html
  2. https://www.microsoft.com/inculture/arts/the-knight-foundation/
  3. http://www.weforum.org/press/2016/03/meet-the-young-innovators-driving-fourth-industrial-revolution
  4. "Women band together, make inroads into tech" by Jon Swartz, USA Today, November 27, 2012.
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGhxEpowM6A
  6. a b c http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-05-13/woman-run-wikipedia-russian-born-former-cal-student-seen
  7. a b https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/26/wikimedia-head-lila-tretikov-resigns-search-engine-plans
  8. a b http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/wikipedia-streit-um-knowledge-engine-lila-tretikov-tritt-zurueck-a-1079448.html%7C
  9. Executive Profile: Lila Tretikov, Bloomberg Businessweek, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2014. Archived here.
  10. https://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/women/awards/414_2252_21756.cfm/
  11. a b https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/06/wikipedia-lila-tretikov-glasnost-freedom-of-information
  12. https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/01/wikipedia-names-software-executive-tretikov-as-new-chief/
  13. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/business/media/open-source-software-specialist-selected-as-executive-director-of-wikipedia.html
  14. https://ria.ru/20140602/1010408517.html quote by RIA
  15. https://prepareforchange.net/2019/11/05/wikipedia-rotten-to-the-core/
  16. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082470.htm
  17. http://thejournal.com/articles/2014/08/25/wikimedia-foundation-director-named-to-opened-board.aspx
  18. http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2204901%7Cwebsite=Digital Journal
  19. https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/volvo-cars-appoints-lila-tretikov-and-diarmuid-oconnell-to-board-of-directors/
  20. a b c https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cervest-appoints-lila-tretikov-chairperson-of-board-of-directors-301375637.html


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