Former Amazon Global Director to oversee products
that connect education with career readiness
PRINCETON, N.J., July 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- ETS announced today that Ken Eisner has been named Managing Director of
Higher Education to Workforce. In this new role, Eisner will manage
all aspects of products aimed at higher education and career
readiness, including product ideation, development, marketing,
sales and operations.
"As part of our vision to power human progress and promote skill
proficiency, ETS is committed to bold new solutions that address
the biggest challenges in higher education and career readiness,"
said Gollash. "Ken brings a 'think big' mentality and proven
success not just in building highly scalable solutions for these
markets but also in driving their adoption globally. We're thrilled
to welcome him to ETS and excited about what we can accomplish
under his leadership."
Led by Eisner, ETS plans to significantly increase its higher
education and career readiness offerings to address mounting
challenges and opportunities in the space. In addition to leading
the GRE, the market-leading graduate school admissions test, Eisner
will be creating new solutions and partnerships that enable
learners entering and moving through higher education to be
prepared for the careers of the future. Eisner will continue to sit
on the Council of Graduate Schools advisory board and act as a
Senior Advisor to Good Harbor Partners and New Markets Venture
Partners, among other advisory positions.
"With higher education at a critical juncture, driven in large
part by the evolution of the workforce, I believe that ETS is
well-suited to play a foundational role at the intersection of the
supply and demand of labor," said Eisner. "ETS leads the world in
research-backed assessments and is home to rich learner data that
enables us to build solutions that the market demands. At Amazon, I
learned from the very best customer-obsessed builders in the world,
and I'm excited to bring that mentality to ETS."
Eisner was previously Global Director of education programs at
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and of learning systems at Amazon. While
at AWS, Eisner founded and scaled AWS Educate, Amazon's global
program to provide students with pathways into cloud jobs. Based on
a breakthrough skills taxonomy called the Cloud Competency
Framework (CCF), AWS Educate recruited over 1 million students,
tens of thousands of educators and more than 3,500 educational
institutions and developed countrywide and statewide partnerships
to realign curriculum to the CCF. AWS Educate received various
awards, including Eisner's recognition as AWS Public Sector's
Impact Person of the Year in 2018. Eisner holds a BA from
Cornell University and an MPP and MBA
with honors from Georgetown
University.
About ETS
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization
enabling lifelong learners to be future ready. We advance the
science of measurement to build the benchmarks for fair and valid
skill assessment. We are committed to powering human progress by
promoting skill proficiency, empowering upward mobility and
unlocking more opportunities for everyone, everywhere. Our
assessment products – including the TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE and Praxis
Assessments – as well as our innovative solutions and subsidiaries
help 50 million people each year to clarify their strengths and
find opportunities for growth in education, work and beyond. We
continue to operate around the world, with offices in 25 locations
and operations in 200 countries and territories. www.ets.org
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