NEW YORK, Feb. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Wix.com Ltd
(Nasdaq: WIX) today announced the appointment of Diane Greene to its board of directors.
"We could not be more excited to welcome Diane to our board of
directors," said Avishai Abrahami,
Co-founder and CEO of Wix. "As the co-founder of multiple
disruptive companies, overseeing their tremendous growth, along
with serving on the boards of highly successful technology leaders,
Diane brings an unparalleled amount of technology experience and
leadership to our board. As we embark on our next significant phase
of growth, we are fortunate to add someone of Diane's wisdom to
Wix."
Ms. Greene is among the most prominent entrepreneurs in the
development of cloud computing and an experienced leader in the
enterprise software industry. In 1998 Greene co-founded VMware, a
pioneer in computing virtualization solutions, serving as its CEO
until 2008. She also co-founded and was the CEO of VXtreme, bought
by Microsoft in 1997, and Bebop, bought by Google in 2015. She
previously served as the CEO of Google's Cloud Division from 2015
through 2018 as well as on the board of directors for Intuit from
2006 to 2018 and for Alphabet from 2012 to 2019.
Ms. Greene currently serves on the board of directors of SAP SE
and Stripe. She is also a lifetime member of The MIT Corporation,
the governing body of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from the University of Vermont, a M.S.
in Naval Architecture from MIT and a
M.S. in Computer Science from the University
of California, Berkeley.
Ms. Green will replace Giora "Gig" Kaplan. Gig co-founded Wix in
2006 and along with co-founders Avishai
Abrahami and Nadav Abrahami
served as a key visionary in bringing website creation to hundreds
of millions of users globally through the Wix platform. He has
devotedly served on our board of directors for over 13 years. The
Wix management team is forever grateful to Gig for his enthusiastic
leadership, invaluable foresight and endless generosity. Gig will
also be stepping down as our CTO but will stay on in an advisory
capacity.
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