Sakai Foundation Update > Executive Director Position

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