ATP Board of Directors Looks Ahead to 2023

Ashok Sarathy from GMAC will lead as Board Chair

ATP is pleased to announce that the 2023 ATP Board of Directors will be led by Ashok Sarathy, Vice President Product Management at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).  Sarathy has spent more than 17 years in the assessment industry enabling GMAC to transition the development and delivery of the GMAT exam to new partners and in the process redefined the digital user experience and established the test security and data management functions within the GMAT Program. He implemented several innovations to improve the security of the GMAT Test. Later he launched the Next Generation GMAT exam, adding a new “Integrated Reasoning” section to the exam with input from faculty at business schools. He then assumed a product management role responsible for the P&L of the key products within the council’s assessment portfolio, launching new products and enhancements that fostered growth in revenues for the product line. In 2010 - 2011 Sarathy chaired the ATP Test Security Committee, overseeing initiatives such as Enforcement, Security Best Practices, and Messaging Practices to help establish, document, and disseminate best practices in test security throughout the assessment industry. He subsequently served on the planning committee for the annual “Innovations in Testing” conference for four years serving as Conference Chair in 2017.  Sarathy has been an active member of the ATP Board of Directors since 2018 where he participated in helping ATP evaluate its Brand to improved messaging and facilitate the Association’s growth.  

Newly elected to the ATP Board of Directors for 2023 is Stephanie Dille, MBA, Chief Marketing Officer for Meazure Learning. Dille has thirty years’ experience across multiple segments of the testing industry. As Chief Marketing Officer for Meazure Learning, she leads the strategic marketing team focused on product, brand, and digital marketing. Dille was instrumental in helping expand Meazure’s portfolio from ProctorU to Meazure Learning through the acquisition of Yardstick Assessment Strategies in 2020 and Scantron’s Certification and Licensure business in 2022. Prior to ProctorU, she was head of global marketing at Pearson VUE. During her tenure there, she also served as Vice President, Sales and Marketing for the GED testing program to help revamp the GED. Prior to Pearson VUE, Dille served in a variety of product and marketing roles at PDI, Inc. (now Korn Ferry) and Pearson Clinical Assessments. Dille has been an active industry volunteer dedicated to promoting the value of testing throughout her career. She has previously served on ATP’s Board of Directors (2010-2012) and has served numerous times as Chair of ATP’s Marketing Committee (2006-2008, 2014-2015, and 2019-present) and on the Executive Committee, including the ATP rebranding task force (2020.) Dille also serves on the ATP/NCTA task force developing the Joint Standards for the Online Observations of Tests. In 2014, she received the Presidential Award from the ICE Board of Directors recognizing her service. Dille currently Chairs the ITCC Security Committee (2020-present) and ICE’s External Stakeholder Working Group (2019-present.) 

Also newly elected to the 2023 Board is Joy Matthews-López, PhD, founder of JML Measurement and Testing Services (JML-MATS), where she and her team provide psychometric, test development, and accreditation services to a wide range of clients in the micro-credential, certification, and licensure spaces. Matthews-López, has presented extensively on topics of test adaptation/translation and exam security and is co-inventor on two US patents. She was recognized as Outstanding Employee of the Year and received a Deans Award from Ohio University and was awarded an Outstanding Team Recognition by Educational Testing Service. Prior to founding JML-MATS, she served as senior psychometrician at several different companies including Prometric and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP). Early in her career, Matthews-López, worked at ETS where her duties were focused on standard setting and test adaptation/translation, followed by several years as Research Director for the Centers for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE), where she established two research offices and built infrastructure to grow and support clinical research. Matthew-López's current areas of interest include micro-credentials, test adaptation/translation & globalization, and accreditation. Matthews-López, currently serves as Chair of ATP’s Certification and Licensure Division and is completing her sixth year as an NCCA Commissioner and second year as NCCA Chair. She volunteers as a mentor to graduate students and early scholars in the area of psychometrics. 

Also newly elected to the 2023 Board is Ada Woo, Vice President of Innovative Learning Sciences at Ascend Learning,  where she oversees all research and development aspects of learning and assessment products. By ensuring that the best of measurement and learning sciences is integrated into Ascend’s offerings, Woo and her team help customers achieve their workforce education goals. Prior to Ascend, Woo worked in the K-12 edtech sector and on multiple healthcare testing programs. She has volunteered extensively for ATP. As Chair of the 2021 Innovations in Testing Conference, Woo led the first virtual Innovations Conference. She has also led the Certification and Licensure Division, the Health SIG, and served on the Edtech and Computational Psychometric Summit program committee. Currently, she chairs the Workforce Skills Credentialing Division. Woo is active in the edtech and psychometrics communities. She presently co-chairs the NCME Mission Fund Committee, overseeing a grant program that supports diversity, equity and inclusion research. Locally, Woo is an appointee to the Iowa Innovation Council, a government advisory body that supports public-private partnerships to boost innovation and economic development state-wide.  

Re-elected to the 2023 ATP Board of Directors is former ATP Chair John Kleeman of Questionmark. 

ATP CEO William G. Harris, Ph.D. expressed his confidence in the ATP Board of Directors to continue leading the Association as it faces ongoing challenges in the post-Covid era. "They have continued to display creativity and resilience in facing the many obstacles that have presented themselves to so many nonprofits as we continue to recover from the health concerns and the economics that threatened so many lives and livelihoods. I have been so impressed by the leadership of the past few Chairs, 2020 Chair John Weiner (PSI), 2021 Chair John Kleeman (Questionmark), 2022 Chair Alina von Davier (Duolingo), along with the many Board members, past and present, who continue to display the forward thinking and can-do attitude on which ATP was founded 30 years ago," Harris remarked.

Harris noted that ATP has an exciting year ahead as in-person conferences return, starting with the Innovations in Testing Conference in March of 2023 in Dallas, the Europe-ATP Conference in September in Vienna, along with two Summits, the in-person Global Security Summit in September and the virtual EdTech and Computational Psychometrics Conference planned for June. Additionally, ATP will launch a Learning Academy in the early part of 2023 to begin addressing the challenges of Assessment Literacy. 

"I truly believe we have leaders in place that will take ATP in the direction that it needs to go in order to recover from the past several years and to move forward in its mission of advancing equity, integrity and learning around the globe," Harris concluded.