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.

Contents 1 History 2 Contact 3 Board of Directors 4 Staff 4.1 San Mateo office 4.2 Remote 4.3 Poznań office 4.4 New York Office 5 See also

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 • Remote • Poznań office • New York office

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 Łapiński, Product development
• Przemysław Malkowski, Operations
• Krzysztof Krzyżaniak, Product development
• Piotr Molski, Product development
• Lidija Arsic, Office Manager

New York Office

• Aaron Wright
• Dan Lewis
• David Pean
• Rob Lefkowitz

See also

• Wikia in the news
• About Wikia
• Contact us