[Announcements] Sakai Foundation Update > Executive Director Position

[Josh Baron]

Community Members,

I'm writing to announce that Michael Korcuska will be stepping down as 
Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation, effective March 15, 2010. 
Michael has served as Executive Director since July, 2007. He leaves the 
Sakai Foundation to take up a position at LinkedIn in Mountain View, 
California as global head of customer operations.
 
The Board has decided that an interim Executive Director is needed to 
assure operational continuity of Foundation activities.  I am pleased to 
announce that Sakai co-founder and former Board member Lois Brooks has 
agreed to serve as interim ED. Her long association with the Sakai 
Foundation leaves her well positioned to step in and help with this 
transition.  Michael and Lois will work together in the coming weeks to 
ensure a smooth handover. The Sakai Foundation would like to thank 
Stanford University for helping to enable Lois' transition into this role. 


On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Sakai Foundation, I would like 
to thank Michael for his service to the Foundation and the Sakai 
community.  Sakai has matured considerably over the past few years and we 
are well positioned for the future, including the exciting opportunities 
represented by Sakai 3. In addition, many of us have gotten to know 
Michael on a professional as well as personal level and will miss his 
passion, enthusiasm, and seemingly endless optimism and goodwill.  We wish 
Michael well in his future endeavors. 

In the next few weeks we will communicate more details on the transition 
plans.

Josh Baron
Chair, Sakai Foundation Board of Directors

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Joshua Baron
Director, Academic Technology and eLearning
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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