Staff and contractors

The Wikimedia Foundation currently has five full-time employees. Everyone else involved with the projects is a volunteer, including members of the Board of Trustees. The Executive Director of the Foundation is Brad Patrick, who was appointed on an interim basis in June 2006 and also serves as legal counsel (see the press release). The Foundation is currently conducting a search for a permanent Executive Director.

Brad Patrick

Brad Patrick, interim CEO and legal counsel, in St. Augustine, Florida

Brad Patrick is the legal counsel and interim Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA. Prior to joining the Wikimedia Foundation, he practiced law with the Tampa firm of Fowler White Boggs Banker in the fields of technology and intellectual property litigation. His prior work experience includes civil litigation with private firms in Redmond and Seattle, Washington, technology consulting and procurement for state government, and software consulting to top 100 law firms for transactional, data warehousing, and business intelligence systems. He has served on numerous not-for-profit boards of directors in civic, educational, and community leadership organizations. Offline, he enjoys reading, music and spending time in the great outdoors with his family.

Administrative staff

• Danny Wool, Wikimedia Assistant in the Florida office, since September 2005.

Wool at Wikimania 2006.

Technical staff

Vibber at Wikimania 2006.

• Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer and MediaWiki release manager, since summer 2005.
• Tim Starling, MediaWiki software developer, since spring 2006.

Independent contractors and others

Hardware

• Kyle Anderson, retained as a part time hardware manager (independent contractor) for the Tampa servers.