Wikimedia Foundation/Organizational chart

This organizational chart shows the leadership of each department followed by teams within the department. In the team sections, the leader of that team is listed first. Not all staff are listed for privacy and safety considerations. This page is comprehensively updated quarterly.

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Office of CEO

Bernadette Meehan became the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Wikimedia Foundation in January 2026.

Office of the CEO

Nadee Gunasena

Chief of Staff & Director of Executive Communications

Margo Lee

Deputy Chief of Staff

Advancement

Leadership

Lisa Seitz Gruwell

Chief Advancement Officer

Fiona Romeo

Director of Content Enablement

Jorge Vargas

Senior Director of Community Investment and Partnerships

Simona Ramkisson

Director of Community Development

Greg Grossmeier

Director of Engineering

Sheetal Puri

Senior Director of Digital Fundraising

Erica Roden

Director of Fundraising Operations

Caitlin Virtue

Senior Director of Development

Lane Becker

Senior Director of Earned Revenue

Community Growth

Jorge Vargas

Senior Director of Community Investment and Partnerships

Simona Ramkisson

Director of Community Development

Fiona Romeo

Director of Content Enablement

Partnerships

Jorge Vargas

Senior Director of Community Investment and Partnerships

Felix Nartey

Sub-Saharan Africa Partnerships

Brisa Ceccon

Latin America Partnerships

Praveen Das

South Asia Partnerships

Farida El-Gueretly

Middle East and North Africa Partnerships

Sakti Pramudya

South East Asia Partnerships

Community Resources

Veronica Thamaini

Manager, Regional Programs

Agnes Bruszik

Lead Program Officer, Northern and Western Europe Region

Jacqueline Chen

Senior Program Officer for East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific and South Asia Regions

Davit Saroyan

Senior Program Officer, Technical

Chris "Jethro" Schilling

Senior Program Officer for Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia & the US and Canada Regions

Willy Buloso

Senior Program Officer for Sub-Saharan Africa

Guillherme Rocca

Senior Program Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean

Alla Garcia

Senior Program Officer for Northern & Western Europe

Community Operations

Chen Almog

Manager, Community Operations

Anna Torres

Community Operations Specialist

Brittany-lynn

Community Operations Specialist

Yulia Atikaputri

Community Operations Associate

Yoemna Saint

Community Operations Associate

Content Enablement

Fiona Romeo

Director, Content Enablement

Satdeep Gill

Manager, Content Enablement

Silvia Gutiérrez

Lead Strategist

Giovanna Fontenelle

Program Officer

Vipin SJ

Senior Partnerships Manager

Euphemia Uwandu

Program Officer, Community Organizing Experience

Anbar Jayadi

Senior Process Analyst, Community Organizing Experience

Community Development

Simona Ramkisson

Director of Community Development

Asaf Bartov

Lead Program Officer

Melissa Guadalupe Huertas

Senior Learning and Capacity Strategist

Cassie Casares

Learning & Development Specialist

Beverly Jiang

Senior Learning & Development Strategist

Jessica Stephenson

Lead Program Officer, Let’s Connect

Sailesh Patnaik

Senior Program Officer, Community Development

Anamaría Espinoza

Instructional Designer

Bridgit Kurgat

Lead Program Officer, Gender

Wikimedia Enterprise

Lane Becker

Senior Director, Earned Revenue

Amy Muller

Customer Support and Success Manager

Christopher Petrillo

Principal Product Manager

Haroon Shaikh

Senior Engineering Manager

Naïké Nembetwa Nzali

Senior Program Manager

Nicholas Perry

Tech & Product Partnerships

Fundraising

Julia Brungs

Lead Community Relations Specialist

Greg Grossmeier

Director of Engineering

Sheetal Puri

Senior Director of Digital Fundraising

Erica Roden

Director of Fundraising Operations

Caitlin Virtue

Senior Director of Development

Communications

Leadership

Anusha Alikhan

Chief Communications Officer

Zack McCune

Director, Brand Studio

Nazneen Nawaz

Senior Director, External Communications

Evelyn Mwangi

Director, Internal Communications

Mayur मयूर

Senior Director, Movement Communications

Brand Studio

Zack McCune

Director of Brand

Corli de Kock

Senior Brand Strategist

Tas Elias

Brand Collaboration Lead

Shrutika Manivannan

Brand Strategist

Mathoto Matsetela-Hartmann

Senior Manager, Global Brand

Jordan McRae

Multimedia Designer

Marina Ramos

Associate Creative Director

Einav Jacubovich

Global Creative Director

External Communications

Nazneen Nawaz

Senior Director, External Communications

Anita Baker

Integrated Marketing Specialist

Brooke Camarda

Senior Marketing Specialist

Sara Campos

Senior Digital Experience Specialist

Lauren Dickinson

Senior Manager, Communications

Ed Erhart

Communications Specialist

Vidhu Goyal

Manager, Communications

Nino Hemmer

Head of Audience Insights

Barbara Kandek

Communications Specialist

Fu-Ying Lin

Analyst III

Gwada Majange

Lead Communications Specialist

Segun Oworu

Senior Lifecycle Insights Analyst

Lucas Pasqual

Senior Social Media Specialist

Laura Pulecio Duarte

Public Policy Communications Specialist

Olga Spingou

Senior Manager, Integrated Marketing

Movement Communications

Mayur मयूर

Senior Director, Movement Communications

Rae Adimer

Movement Communications Specialist

Jan Beránek

Movement Communications Specialist (Europe)

Eliza Blackorby

Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Giselle Bordoy

Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Latin America)

Benoît Evellin

Senior Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Szymon Grabarczuk

Lead Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Johan Jönsson

Manager, Movement Communications

Chris Koerner

Senior Movement Communications Specialist

Ivonne Kristiani

Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (ESEAP)

Elena Lappen

Manager, Movement Communications

Luca Martinelli

Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Belinda Mbambo

Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications

Lisa McCabe

Senior Manager, Movement Communications

Junko Nakayama

Movement Communications Specialist

Uzoma Ozurumba

Senior Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Mahuton Possoupe

Movement Communications Specialist (French)

Amal Ramadan

Senior Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Andrea Romanos

Movement Communications Specialist (Events & Conferences)

Sdkb

Movement Communications Specialist

Rachit Sharma

Movement Communications Manager, Global Events & South Asia

Kelsi Stine-Rowe

Senior Manager, Movement Communications

Gisca Syalindri

Event Volunteer Coordinator

Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska

Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (Europe)

Sandister Tei

Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Benedict Udeh

Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Gregory Varnum

Senior Strategist, Movement Communications

Nick Wilson

Senior Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)

Manar Yacoub Criner

Manager, Global Movement Communications

Eureka Endo

Movement Communications Specialist

Internal Communications

Evelyn Mwangi

Director of Internal Communications

Lindsay Ferguson

Internal Communications Lead

Program Management

Carla Casilli

Senior Manager, Program Management

Amba Priya Dube

Senior Project Manager

Lena Traer

Lead Project Manager

Aiman Javed

Project Manager

Finance and Administration

Leadership

Jaime Villagomez

Chief Financial Officer

James Baldwin

Senior Director of Finance

Helen Pang

VP, Controller

Finance Operations

Dhaval Patel

Principal Investment Manager - Endowment

Janice Tud

Manager of Grants Administration

Emily Berman

Senior Manager of Travel and Convening

Shelby Langan

Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting Lead

Legal

Leadership

Stephen LaPorte

General Counsel

Aeryn Palmer

Deputy General Counsel

Jacob Rogers

Associate General Counsel

James Buatti

Legal Director

Jan Eissfeldt

Director, Global Head of Trust & Safety

Jan Gerlach

Public Policy Director

Maggie Dennis

Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability

Legal Affairs

Aeryn Palmer

Deputy General Counsel

Jacob Rogers

Associate General Counsel

James Buatti

Legal Director

Chuck Roslof

Principal Legal Counsel, support for Board Trustees

Community Resilience and Sustainability

Maggie Dennis

Vice President

Jan Eissfeldt

Director, Global Head of Trust & Safety

Kaarel Vaidla

Lead Movement Process Architect

Abhas Tripathi

Manager, Trust & Safety (Knowledge Integrity)

Committee Support

Jack Glover (Xeno)

Senior Manager, Community Governance Support

Keegan Peterzell

Lead Community Governance Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

Manavpreet Kaur

Senior Community Governance Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation

Human Rights

Cameran Ashraf

Human Rights Lead

Trust and Safety

Jan Eissfeldt

Director, Global Head of Trust & Safety

Global Advocacy

Jan Gerlach

Public Policy Director

Allison Davenport

Lead Public Policy Analyst

Costanza Sciubba Caniglia

Knowledge Integrity Strategy Lead

Amalia Toledo

Lead Public Policy Specialist (Latin America and the Caribbean)

Franziska ("Ziski") Putz

Senior Movement Advocacy Manager

Miguelángel ("Miguel") Verde Garrido

Senior Editorial Project Manager

Stan Adams

Lead Public Policy Specialist (North America)

Ricky Gaines

Senior Human Rights Advocacy Manager

Kat Gatewood

Senior Operations Manager

Product and Technology

Leadership

Selena Deckelmann

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Suman Cherukuwada

Deputy Chief Product and Technology Officer

Mark Bergsma

Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering

Tajh Taylor

Special Advisor to the Chief Product and Technology Officer

Amanda Bittaker

Chief of Staff to the Chief Product and Technology Officer

Chris Albon

Director of Machine Learning and Data

Kavitha Appakayala

Director of Site Reliability Engineering

Nat Baca

Director of Engineering, Reading Experiences

Ilan Berker

Director of Engineering, MediaWiki

Runa Bhattacharjee

Senior Director, Languages & Content Growth

Marzanne Collins

Director of Program Management

Levi Ferreira

Director of Engineering, Developer Experience

Rita Ho

Director of Design

Marshall Miller

Senior Director of Product, Core Experiences

Birgit Müller

Director of Product, MediaWiki and Developer Experience

Amy Tsay

Director of Product, Abstract Wikipedia and Wikidata Platform

Denny Vrandečić

Head of Special Projects

Leila Zia

Director, Head of Research

Kate Zimmerman

Senior Director, Research and Decision Science

Product and Technology teams

Fiscal year 2025-2026

Focused on the Wiki Experiences bucket of work:
- Focusing on the objective Contributor Experiences, WE1 – teams: Contributors
- Focusing on the objective Vital Knowledge, WE2 – teams: Languages and Product Localization, Abstract Wikipedia, Wikidata Platform
- Focusing on the objective Consumer Experiences, WE3 – teams: Readers
- Focusing on the objective Safety and Security, WE4 – team Product Safety and Integrity
- Focusing on the objective Responsible Use of Infrastructure, WE5 – teams: MediaWiki Engineering
- Focusing on the objective Accelerate Path to Product Outcomes, WE6 – teams: Developer Experience
Focused on the Signals and Data Services bucket of work – teams: Research and Decision Science
Focused on the Future Audiences bucket of work – team Future Audiences

Other teams supporting essential work around maintenance and all OKRs above:

People

Leadership

Courtney Bass Sherizen

Chief People Officer

Cassi Mecchi

Vice President of People Growth and Belonging

Julie Brown

Director, Global Recruiting

Marlene Mills

Director, People Transformation

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Aubrey Williams

Senior Specialist, People Growth & Belonging

Cassi Mecchi

Vice President, People Growth & Belonging

Dwaine Taylor

Senior Manager, People Growth and Belonging

Halle Evans

Specialist, People Growth & Belonging

Selene Yang

Senior Specialist, People Growth & Belonging

Recruiting

Julie Brown

Director of Global Recruiting

Ana Cho

Lead Recruiter

Liz Morris

Lead Recruiter

Déborah Martins

Senior Recruiter

Lisa Hiraide

Recruiting Associate

Alisa Nguyen

Recruiting Associate

Allan Anctil

Recruiter (contract)