They recently yesterday hired a new Chief Communications Officer Katherine Maher but are still in process of finding a New Executive Director for WMF on the th the job posting was taken off and this was posted by Jan Barte on meta  As mentioned before we have taken a different tactic in finding new candidates and we have met with several people and we have had several meetings with candidates with two or more members of the Transition Team  We are at a point where we have three candidates that we all feel are great We hope to speak to them in the coming week or two and hope to go into the final process reference checking terms negotiation etc after that We would then likely be looking to announce the new ED in May  Sue touched upon this subject during the Metrics update which took place on March th  JanBart de Vreede