There are some leadership changes at ETS to ring in the new financial year. PSI’s CEO Janet Garcia is now also president of ETS. She’s joined at ETS by PSI colleague Isabelle Gonthier, who now serves as Chief Assessment Officer of both firms. Isabelle’s podcast “Tried and Tested” is my absolute favorite bit of related media, and I sure hope it continues despite a possibly increased workload.
Meanwhile, the masthead at the ETS website no longer lists the firm’s Senior VP of Global Mobility Solutions Rohit Sharma nor Chief Marketing & Innovation Officer Michelle Froah.
I don’t like to mention people below the c-suite by name, but a few other changes caught my eye:
- ETS’s Country Manager for Japan has shifted to an advisory position. That appears to make it a clean sweep as far as country managers for key TOEFL and GRE markets go. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there may be an effort to install people with business backgrounds in these positions instead of people with careers in education.
- Several senior directors with expertise related to institutional partnerships have decamped to LanguageCert.
- Most of the friendly faces that test prep folk will know from the ETS Global workshops for teachers have departed. That’s kinda sad.