Organizations Filed Purposes:
WES ADVANCES THE GLOBAL MOBILITY AND INTEGRATION OF PEOPLE INTO ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS BY EVALUATING AND ADVOCATING FOR RECOGNITION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, AND ENABLING INDIVIDUALS TO FULLY UTILIZE THEIR EDUCATION.
WES ADVANCES THE GLOBAL MOBILITY AND INTEGRATION OF PEOPLE INTO ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS BY EVALUATING ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS.
CREDENTIAL EVALUATIONS - WES operates a foreign credential evaluation service in the United States of America and Canada. The service processed applications for evaluation for the following areas in 2019: immigration (73%), education (21%), employment (3%), and professional licensing (3%).
GLOBAL TALENT BRIDGE - WES helps skilled immigrants overcome the barriers that keep them from fully utilizing their talents and education in the United States of America and Canada by providing professional development and training to the staff of community and government organizations, direct outreach, and research studies and resources.
TRAINING AND PUBLICATIONS - WES provides training on foreign credential evaluation methods and procedures, international recruitment strategies, and country educational systems through workshops and webinars. WES produces World Education News & Reviews, a monthly online publication for professionals in international education, which includes analyses of international trends, "how to" articles on credential evaluation with sample documents, and up-to-date profiles of the educational systems of various countries.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Mariam Assefa Thru 09 | Executive Director & CEO | 40 | $402,901 |
| Elisabeth Connors | Deputy Exec Dir - CFO | 40 | $344,538 |
| Paul Feltman | Deputy Exec Dir-Global Talent | 40 | $296,629 |
| Esther T Benjamin | CEO & ED (From June 2019) | 40 | $248,795 |
| Edward Lavelle | Sr: Director of IT | 40 | $248,306 |
| Robert D Hunter | director of customer exp. | 40 | $247,194 |
| Kevin Rolwing | quality assurance dir. | 40 | $236,912 |
| Frank Guttilla | Sr: Dir Eval Production & Oper | 40 | $235,793 |
| Ari Mihael | Quality Assurance Dir. | 40 | $233,748 |
| Biren Shah | dir. of software development | 40 | $213,313 |
| Stefan Trines | research editor | 40 | $212,328 |
| Shamira Madhany | Managing Director - Canada | 40 | $211,534 |
| Holly Sanders | sr. dir. knowledge mgmt | 40 | $210,642 |
| Michael Lowe | sr dir of human resources | 40 | $208,871 |
| Gabriel L Vasquez | sr. director of marketing | 40 | $196,659 |
| Willis Wang | trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Dewayne Matthews | trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Shakti Jauhar | trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Joanna Harries | trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Sidney R Hargo | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Misha Esipov | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Ann Buller | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Samuel Artmann | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Audrey Hendley | Secretary/Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Lynn Shotwell | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Hans De Wit | Chair | 2 | $0 |
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public 990 form dataset) from:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/irs-form-990/202042959349301004_public.xml