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Web Summit names Katherine Maher as its new chief executive

Maher, the former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, replaces Paddy Cosgrave

Katherine Maher, the new chief executive of Web Summit

Web Summit has announced Katherine Maher as its new chief executive to succeed Paddy Cosgrave who resigned recently due to controversial comments regarding Israel.

Maher previously led Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind Wikipedia, which has over 1 billion monthly users.

Additionally, Maher is chair of messaging platform, Signal. She is also non-resident senior fellow on democracy and technology at the Atlantic Council, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a World Economic Forum ...