[foundation-board] OKI board recruitment - update & issues for decision

[Karin Christiansen]

Dear Jane, Helen, Andrew, Mark and Paul

Tim, Shireen and I thought it would be good to give everyone *an board
recruitment update, which is set out below.*  But the topline is it looks
like we have some good people and an interesting and useful mix looks very
possible.  Tim and I have interviewed 6 so far (but these came top of our
longlisting), and have another 3 to go this week, and will be able to put
forward a formal proposal week commencing 14th May 2018.

However, I am probably out of action next week (have an operation on
Monday, small but still not sure how I will be next week) so, *Jane and
Helen - if we still want the new Board members to be in place and attend
our meeting on 12th June 2018, then we need your urgent feedback on:*

1. *Interview the final/proposed candidates. *Ideally we woule obviously
have both of you talk to all of them but if we are looking at 4 people,
that would involve a lot of logistics. Another options might be you speak
to the ones neither of you know (that would be Jarmo I think at the moment
and with the current top list), or both interview 2 each, maybe the people
you don't know (for example that could be in current top list: Helen -
Vicky and Ira, Jane- Johnny and Jarmu). What would you prefer and what
availablity would you have next week ideally

2. *Rufus *joining the Board - I think we are all on the same page about
bringing him on. There are questions however including how do we manage
that (clarity with him about his role and approach), and what does that
mean in terms of numbers (see below), and does this change anything about
the candidates/skills mix?

3. *Numbers* - Are we agreed we looking for an 7 member board evenutally?
If so we need to recruit 5 now to cover Jane's departure and evenutally
mine too. We can always hire more, but we gettting rid is harder...

Many thanks
Karin



*Update as of today (we do more interivews this Thurs and Friday) - for
info, we will have a formal proposal on 14th but thought you might want to
have a look. *

1. Rufus 2. Vicky Brock
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SOGv0WHoB1gNumO2ZuLOtNuWghHaiW_K?usp=sharing>
3. Jarmo Eskelinen
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wet1lsPOtUm1p_Y7B2VuwR0WnNE6JZQm?usp=sharing>
4. Johnny West <https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnny-west-2509098/> 5. Irina
Bolychevsky
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/134cKvjoxfP5wkBO1GtMV1pBrXY7EBUIP?usp=sharing>

Of the others interviewed, Cristian Parrino
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UxZhHGe1R36CZsXIyykWJun1WjUyesIQ?usp=sharing>
and and Rob Minto
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ofZraM3RDXX5DY0yqK9Op24HOaluI66V?usp=sharing>
offer key commercial and communication expertise respectively and in
addition to being possible candidates for the Board roles, could also be
considered for advisory/consultancy type roles.

Irina does not have the same level of senior leadership experience that the
other candidates have, however, she brings a deep understanding of the open
sector, Open Knowledge itself and a fresh perspective on Open having
operated at an international level and with Governments in this space.

Given the breadth of leadership and governance experience the current Board
members possess, we believe we are well placed to take on and support one
new member in their first governance role and can do so with Irina. This
issue also applies to Rufus of course but in a rather different way.

Of the others, Cristian Parrino
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UxZhHGe1R36CZsXIyykWJun1WjUyesIQ?usp=sharing>
and and Rob Minto
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ofZraM3RDXX5DY0yqK9Op24HOaluI66V?usp=sharing>
offer commercial and communication expertise respectively and in addition
to being possible candidates for the Board roles, could also be considered
for advisory/consultancy type roles.

We have another three candidates to interview are:

1. Alice Wiegand
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NGXvDEbMFqnRGfZTqT3cV4O87T6bHMC4?usp=sharing>
2. Vanessa Barnett
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pW2u_cPNO0fiXf4Pr1JRyCcq15L5b-mh?usp=sharing>
3. Adam Burns
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-DfSXXxEkziIjD9_LQgZrEusNriiTMyc?usp=sharing>








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Karin Christiansen

karin at karinchristiansen.org

 07816839533

@_karin_c

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