February marked the beginning of a new strategy for the International Institute as Arrey Obenson began his position as the President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Anna Crosslin had led the organization since 1978. Obenson comes to the position after serving as co-founder and CEO of Transformunity. Before that, he was the Secretary General of Junior Chamber International (JCI). It was his work at JCI that brought him to St. Louis from Cameroon in 2002.