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Mary Hubbard is WordPress New Executive Director

Yibeni Tungoe — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000

WordPress has officially appointed a new Executive Director, Mary Hubbard, not long after her predecessor, Josepha Haden Chomphosy resigned. Automattic CEO and WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg announced Hubbard’s appointment.

The new WordPress Executive Director recently just resigned from her post as the Head of TikTok Americas, Governance and Experience. She worked as the Head from January 2023 until her subsequent resignation to take up her new post. But this is not Hubbard’s first time working at WordPress. She worked as the Chief Product Officer for WordPress.com from January 2012 till March 2023.

Mary Hubbard has an extensive working history as presented on her LinkedIn profile. She worked as the Chief Product Officer at TruRating from 2017 till 2020. The WordPress Executive Director also has worked at companies such as eBay, Walmart eCommerce, Assurant, and VBZ Inc. Her educational background includes International Business and Chinese at California State University and Language Business Studies and International Business at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Mary Hubbard: Reception of the news of her appointment as Executive Director

The overall reception to Mary Hubbard’s appointment as WordPress Executive Director has been met with positivity welcoming her on board. However, there are still tons of comments from the online community expressing their disappointment or concerns over the entire WordPress-WP Engine drama.

The feud between the two companies snowballed into a legal lawsuit filed by WP Engine accusing WordPress of extortion. Mullenweg has offered up a generous severance package for employees who want to resign. Employees who wanted to leave were offered $30,000 or six months of pay. Employees could choose whichever amount was higher.

Josepha Haden Chomphosy resigned from her position as Executive Director of WordPress very recently but there are no details about the reasons for her resignation.

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WordPress Executive Director Formally Resigns

Yibeni Tungoe — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 04:00:00 +0000

Two weeks after the WordPress-WP Engine feud started, WordPress Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy officially resigned. Her resignation thus ends a tenure lasting over nine years.

Chomphosy uploaded a notice on her blog, officially announcing her resignation as the WordPress Executive Director. Her blog expresses her strong belief in the ‘global community of contributors’. She also believes there is a long way to go in attaining a self-sustaining future of open source. The former Executive Director has also acknowledged the need for more opportunities that open sources can provide.

Co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, Matt Mullenweg confirmed Chomphosy’s resignation on October 2. Mullenweg had posted on X that he had spoken to Chomphosy and confirmed she was no longer working with the company. However, the post was later deleted as Chomphosy posted her response the very next day. In her post, she apologised for the delivery of the news and said that it was not how she expected it to be announced.

WordPress’ Executive Director resigned during the feud

The former WordPress Executive Director announced her resignation at the peak of the WordPress-WP Engine drama. This entire feud by started by Matt Mullenweg and later snowballed into an entire lawsuit by WP Engine accusing the Automattic CEO of extortion and libel.

It is up in the air regarding the reasons behind Chomphosy’s resignation. Although her resignation came in during the whole feud between the two companies, there is no confirmation that she resigned because of the feud. In her resignation announcement, Chomphosy did not make any mention of the fiasco either.

Mullenweg has also uploaded a blog post with an exit offer for Automattic employees who did not agree with Mullenweg. Over 8% of employees had exited and they were compensated with a severance package of $30,000 or six months of salary.

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