Lane Becker

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

Previously, Lane worked with the US government’s Technology Transformation Service (TTS) as a digital strategist for 18F, 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, 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 as their Director of Product and Startups, leading both their product development and startup accelerator programs.

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 co-founded Measure Map, an online blog analytics tool, which was purchased by Google in 2006 and became the front-end of Google Analytics, as well as 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.

Lane is also a Research Associate with the Governance Futures Lab at the Institute for the Future, the world’s leading strategic futures organization. He holds several bachelors degrees from the University of Texas at Austin.