Abed Ayoub
Chief Executive Officer
Abed Ayoub comes from a strong management background with more than 21 years of experience in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. He holds an executive MBA and Doctorate in International Development, and has served in a variety of administrative positions during his professional career.
As a governance committee member of Islamic Relief Worldwide™ (IRW), Mr. Ayoub monitors the present performance of IRW and plans future aims and priorities for the international organization. He is also the chairman of a subcommittee focused on governance and improving IR partnerships.
Currently, Mr. Ayoub serves on the executive board of many local and international nonprofit organizations. He is a founding partner of the Center for Interfaith Action, a coalition of faith organizations working collectively to reduce global poverty and disease. In April 2010, Mr. Ayoub was appointed to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid (ACVFA). Along with other leaders in the international development field, Mr. Ayoub provides advice, analysis and recommendations to USAID on the most pressing development issues in the world today.
Most recent, Mr. Ayoub was appointed to the U.S. State Department’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group, where he will be advising on humanitarian issues.
Tareq Osman
Controller
Tareq Osman, a Certified Public Accountant, serves as Controller for Islamic Relief USA. Mr. Osman has more than 15 years of experience in a variety of accounting specialties, including account analyses, budgeting, internal control, reconciliations, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll management, financial reporting, revenue recognition and individual and corporate taxation.
Mr. Osman has served in accounting-related capacities at a spectrum of for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including Teligent Inc., the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the World Wildlife Fund and AARP. For the past five years, Mr. Osman has worked as a public accountant at a CPA firm he founded.
Beverly Perez
Corporate Counsel
Beverly Perez joined Islamic Relief USA in March of 2009 as Corporate Counsel and Board Secretary. Ms. Perez has extensive experience as in-house counsel for 501(c)(3) nonprofit international organizations. For several years, she was a staff attorney at Greenpeace, a nonprofit international organization widely known for its creative environmental campaigns. At Greenpeace, Ms. Perez worked on a wide spectrum of responsibilities that included handling in-house corporate legal issues such as governance and taxation, as well as managing criminal cases resulting from direct actions and protests.
Prior to accepting the corporate counsel position at IRUSA, Ms. Perez served as associate corporate counsel at the International Medical Corps (IMC), a nonprofit international humanitarian organization that works in more than 20 countries worldwide to improve the quality of life in underserved communities through emergency relief, as well as health interventions and training to build local capacity. As associate corporate counsel, she advised on the legal status of IMC and its foreign offices and, as appropriate, its UK affiliate, to ensure their compliance, locally and internationally, with legal requirements.
As corporate counsel, Ms. Perez advises management on how best to keep the organization within the law while developing methods to accomplish corporate objectives. Ms. Perez earned her Juris Doctor and Master of Arts in International Affairs degrees from American University and is licensed to practice law in California, the District of Columbia and Virginia.
Anwar Khan
Vice President of Programs
Anwar Khan is one of the original founders of Islamic Relief USA. Mr. Khan was born in Pakistan and grew up in England. He earned a degree in biochemistry with honors in 1993, and began working with Islamic Relief United Kingdom. He then moved to the United States in 1994 and cofounded IRUSA. Since then, he has aided in the organization’s expansion, helping start up offices in Los Angeles and Dallas.
Mr. Khan has extensive experience in the field as well: He has traveled to conflict and disaster zones including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Chechnya, Gaza, Darfur, Haiti and Pakistan. During some of his travels, he has delivered emergency aid. He has also traveled for development work in Africa and South Asia, visiting locations including Timbuktu. In the United States, he helped set up a volunteer network that now constitutes several thousand people.
Before becoming head of the Programs Department, Mr. Khan managed Islamic Relief USA’s fundraising offices and oversaw its fund development work. He is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Hebah Reed
Vice President of Communication and Public Affairs
Hebah Reed is the Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs for Islamic Relief USA. Prior to joining the organization, she was a senior producer with Al Jazeera’s English language network where she was responsible for producing and managing news content from the Washington, D.C. broadcast center. Hebah has booked interviews with expert analysts, newsmakers and world leaders for the network. She also served as the network’s liaison to spokespeople and officials at the White House, State Department, Pentagon and Capitol Hill.
Previously, she worked as an editorial associate at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta and as a producer for its award-winning program, World Report. She was also an assignment editor for CBS affiliate WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio and helped to launch its state-wide, 24-hour news channel Ohio News Network. She has won a regional Emmy award for her work as a producer.
Hebah recently began work as a communications consultant for nonprofit organizations via NOVA Broadcast Group, where she helped to develop media outreach and overall external relations strategies for client organizations.
Hebah holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Ohio University and a Master’s Degree from Ohio State University.
