Lane Becker

Lane Becker is the President of Wikimedia LLC, a for-profit subsidiary owned and managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia and its sister projects,. Wikimedia LLC runs Wikimedia Enterprise, a software platform that provides commercial data services to commercial organizations that wish to reuse Wikimedia content in other environments.

In 2001, Lane co-founded Adaptive Path, a pioneering research and design firm in the then-nascent field of user experience, which was purchased by Capital One in 2015 to serve as their in-house innovation lab. Lane also co-founded Measure Map, an online blog analytics tool purchased in 2006 by Google that became the front-end of Google Analytics, and Get Satisfaction, an early customer service community platform, which was acquired by the social media firm Sprinklr in 2014. He continues to invest in and advise technology startups.

Previously, Lane worked with the US government’s Technology Transformation Service (TTS) as a digital strategist for [18F](https://18f.gsa.gov/), an internal consultancy bringing modern digital practices into government, and as Senior Advisor to the Office of Products and Platforms (OPP), which develops new products and services for government-wide use. While at OPP, Lane started and ran [10x](https://10x.gsa.gov/,), an investment fund that develops ideas sourced from civil servants into technology products and services that benefit the American public. Previous to TTS, Lane worked for the nonprofit [Code for America](https://codeforamerica.org/) as their Director of Product and Startups, leading both their product development and startup accelerator programs.