Wikimedia Foundation
Paloma Thombley currently serves as the Vice President of People Experience at the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing global People Experience initiatives since September 2024. In addition, Paloma is an advisor at PeopleTech Partners and Handshake. Previously, as Chief Human Resources Officer at Handshake from June 2019 to January 2025, Paloma led the People and Talent functions, significantly scaling HR operations during a period of rapid growth. Other notable roles include Senior Director of People and Director of People at Nuna Inc., where Paloma was the first official HR hire and developed core HR processes, and various positions at Qualcomm and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, focusing on benefits management and recruitment respectively. Paloma earned a degree from UC San Diego and participated in education at World at Work.
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Wikimedia Foundation
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The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.