Leadership

The Foundation for Workforce Mobility was established in 2004 to provide an institution to study, educate and report on issues of interest to business leaders who must maintain a mobile workforce to thrive in today’s world markets. As such, it widens the outreach from the global mobility industry to a broader business community, both in the United States and around the world, in addition to its charitable giving.
 
Through our Foundation, we can accomplish several initiatives:

• Accept grants and awards from other organizations to conduct research.
• Bring a higher understanding and appreciation of global workforce mobility to the business world at large.
  
• Hold fund-raising events to benefit charities and to build a fund to provide support to members or groups in times of national or global crisis.
  
• Release research from organizations or individuals.
  
• Establish and offer education from a broad business perspective.

One of the Foundation’s most significant qualities is its potential to provide research and education that is of interest to, and that benefits, a broad business audience. The Foundation will:

• Conduct studies and make research available on strategic business issues.
  
• Deliver education on workforce mobility-related issues to a broad public audience.

Funds received by the Foundation are directed toward education, research, scholarship programs and charitable outreach at the discretion of its Board of Trustees.  Fundraising through the Foundation allows Worldwide ERC® to:

• Offer response to emergencies or crises within the Worldwide ERC® membership and workforce mobility industry and to those situations of a national or global nature.
  
• Channel funds to recognized charitable organizations.
  
• Develop events and communications that fund the Foundation’s charitable outreach.

The Foundation is governed by an appointed Board of Trustees, each of whom serve on one of three committees: Charitable Outreach, Research and Education or Scholarship. Trustees serve three years, beginning in the month of January.

Chairman:
Jill Silvas, SCRP, Morgan Lane, Sonoma, California, United States

Vice Chairman, Scholarship Program:
Phillip A. Kosanovich, SCRP, GMS, Promisor Relocation, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Vice Chairman, Research and Education:
Pamela J. O'Connor, SCRP, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Vice Chairman, Charitable Outreach:
Kevin E. Rich, SCRP, Clark & Reid Company, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

Trustees:
Beth Archibald, SCRP, GMS, Prudential Northwest Properties, Portland, Oregon, United States
Sheila V. Barr, CRP, Patterson-Schwartz & Associates, Inc., Hockessin, Delaware, United States
John M. Clarke, SCRP, FMC Technologies Incorporated, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pandra Dickson, SCRP, GMS, Ebby Halliday, REALTORS, Dallas, Texas, United States
Chris Dietz, Mobility Services International, London, United Kingdom
Jack Fraind, Express Relocation, Mexico City, Mexico
Barbara H. Gunn, SCRP, Harry Norman Realtors, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Linda Howard, SCRP, Prudential California/Nevada/Texas Realty, Carmichael, California, United States
Carolyn Huxford, CRP, CarMax Auto Superstores, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, United States
Charles G. (Chip) Roach, Jr., SCRP, Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States
Kevin E. Russell, SCRP, CARTUS Home Loans, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, United States
T.J. Spencer, SCRP, GMS, Oakwood Worldwide, Los Angeles, California, United States
Beverly Sunn, GMS, Asia Pacific Properties, Ltd., Hong Kong, China
Jill Mikes Taylor, SCRP, GMS, GMAC Global Relocation Services, Woodridge, Illinois, United States
Denise M. Tyler, CRP, GMS, ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas, United States
Debbie Harrell Wehner, SCRP, A. Arnold World Class Relocation, Louisville, Kentucky, United States

Ex-Officio Members
2007 Worldwide ERC® President
Peggy Smith, SCRP, GMS, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States
Worldwide ERC® Chief Executive Officer
H. Cris Collie, CAE, Worldwide ERC®‘s, Washington, DC
Foundation Executive Director and Worldwide ERC® Vice President, Finance
Kirk Fabel, Ph.D., Worldwide ERC®, Washington, DC
S. Padmanabhan, Executive Vice President-Global Human Resources Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Mumbai, India

To contact the Worldwide ERC® Foundation:
4401 Wilson Blvd., Suite 510
Arlington, VA 22203 USA
+1 703 842 3400
+1 703 527 1553 fax
foundation@worldwideerc.org
www.worldwideerc.org/foundation

Worldwide ERC® Contacts:
VP, Finance
Kirk Fabel
kfabel@worldwideerc.org
+1 703 842 3411

Executive Communications and Branding
Anita Brienza
abrienza@worldwideerc.org
+1 301 847 3772