Wikia, Inc.
Wikia - creating communities
Wikia is operated by Wikia, Inc. Wikia has offices in San Mateo and New York in the US, and in Poznań in Poland. Remote staff are located in Chile, England, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and also in other locations in Poland and the US. Wikia's staff members have over 60 years Wikipedia experience among them.
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History
Wikia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley in 2004. The company is incorporated in Delaware. Gil Penchina became Wikia's CEO in June 2006, at the same time the company moved its headquarters from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Menlo Park and later to San Mateo in California. A new office was launched in Poznan, Poland in September 2006 and Wikia moved out of St. Petersburg at the end of 2006. The New York office opened when Wikia acquired ArmchairGM in December 2006. Wikia has received two rounds of investment; in March 2006 from Bessemer Venture Partners and in December 2006 from Amazon.com.
Contact
See contact us for more details on contacting Wikia.
Board of Directors
- Jimmy Wales, Chair
- Gil Penchina, CEO
- Jeremy Levine, Bessemer Venture Partners
- Jeff Blackburn, Amazon
Staff
See Community Team and Technical Team for photos and details.
San Mateo office
- Gil Penchina, Chief Executive Officer
- Michael Davis, Chief Operating Officer
- John Q. Smith, VP Product & Engineering
- Bill Kaufmann, VP, Community and Marketing Operations
- Angie Shelton, Gaming Goddess
- Artur Bergman, Director of Engineering
Remote
- Florida, US: Jimmy Wales, Co-founder and Board chair
- Iowa, US: Jeremie Miller, Search
- Australia: Angela Beesley, Co-founder and Community Team
- England: Lisa Carter (sannse), Community Team
- Taiwan: 許瑜真 (Yuchen Hsu/ KJ), Community Team
- Chile: Juan David Ruiz (Zuirdj), Community Team
- US: Catherine Munro, Community Team
- Japan: Shun Fukuzawa (Yukichi), Community Team
- Germany: Tim Bartel (Avatar), Community Team
Poznań office
See also Technical Team
- Emil Podlaszewski, Product development
- Inez Korczyński, Product development
- Gerard Adamczewski, Product development
- Przemek Piotrowski, Product development
- Lucas Garczewski (TOR), Product development
- Maciej Brencz, Product development
- Bartek ÅapiÅ„ski, Product development
- Przemysław Malkowski, Operations
- Krzysztof Krzyżaniak, Product development
- Piotr Molski, Product development
- Lidija Arsic, Office Manager
