Immigration Tech & Marketing - The GMI Rocket Show - Hosted by Roman Zelichenko.

🎙 On Episode 95 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re talking to a fellow immigration attorney-turned-tech entrepreneur, Catherine Haight, founder of Lista.io, an immigration law checklist and template app! (❤️ Huge thank you to this episode’s main sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service immigration professionals use to never miss a client call or inquiry again. Get $2...

🎙 Episode 94 of the GMI Rocket show today is a really special one - a tag team interview about how concurrent cap-exempt H-1Bs with Open Avenues Foundation with Danielle Goldman and Jeff Goldman! (❤️ Huge thank you to this episode’s main sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service immigration professionals use to never miss a client call or inquiry again. Get $250...

🎙 I’m excited to talk to a global mobility tech platform founder all the way from Poland 🇵🇱 for episode 93 of the GMI Rocket show - ​​Andrzej Korkus, CEO and founder of EWL Group! (❤️ Huge thank you to this episode’s main sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service immigration professionals use to never miss a client call or inquiry again. Get $250 off your first m...

🎙 I rarely get to interview an immigration tech founder at the very start… but for episode 92 I’m excited to speak to Ramiro Roballos, ex-McKinsey partner and now co-founder & CEO of Tukki.ai! (❤️ Huge thank you to this episode’s main sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service immigration professionals use to never miss a client call or inquiry again. Get $250...

🎙 On Episode 91 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m super excited to launch the “M&A Series,” where we talk to prior guests whose companies have been acquired or merged. Today we’re speaking with Ryan Keintz, Co-founder of PricePoint. (❤️ Huge thank you to this episode’s sponsor, LEX Reception! A legal intake, reception and client support service to help you make sure you never miss a client call or i...

🎙 For Episode 90 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re talking to a fellow immigration lawyer-turned-tech entrepreneur (though he still practices law!), Mikhail Arsentiev, founder of Skylex! Skylex is a mobile and web app that helps immediately connect individuals with immigration lawyers 24/7. It started as a specialized chat platform (with a WhatsApp feel to it) for Mikhail and his immigration law firm,...

🎙 On episode 89 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m speaking with an immigration tech founder who was let go while on an H-1B visa and launched a startup in response to help others avoid that same fate, Atal Agarwal, Founder of Immigrant First. Originally from India where he received an engineering degree from one of the prestigious IIT schools, Atal came to the US and was on a J-1 visa, F-1 visa and even...

🎙 Episode 88 of the GMI Rocket show is a special one for me: I get to talk to and profile long-time colleague and friend Marc Pavlopoulos, CEO of Syndesus, about Canadian immigration and how US tech companies can benefit from it. Marc, whose roots are from Greece but who was born in and grew up in the US, attended business school in Toronto, and worked in a number of startups, both in Toronto and...

🎙Generative AI is the way of the future, which is why, for episode 87 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m really excited to have a conversation with Antuan Vazquez, CEO and co-founder of DraftyAI! DraftyAI, which is a fairly young immigration tech startup, is focused on using generative AI to help immigration attorneys draft legal briefs, cover letters and other text-heavy documents in minutes. Co-founded...

Happy 2024 everyone! It's been quite some time since we have been “off air.” However, I’m incredibly excited to be BACK with the new episodes of GMI Rocket show. We’re jumping right in with episode 86 with Evren Ay, Founder of translation startup MotaWord. MotaWord is a super tech-savvy certified translation company that provides immigration translation and notarization services, website trans...

On Episode 85, we have a very special guest who probably needs no introduction... Ben Cross, CEO and Founder of GLOMO!! GLOMO is a consulting firm focused on helping companies in the global mobility industry (relocation, immigration, tax, etc.) grow through talent recruiting, M&A and other consulting services. But Ben is more than just the founder and CEO of GLOMO. Ben is also the host of Love...

On episode 84 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re exploring the world of remote work with a startup aptly named Work From Anywhere, and their co-founder and CEO, John Lee! As remote work becomes more common, and not just from home but from the Italian coast, the Austrian Alps or a wine bar in Portugal, one major issue always comes up: tax & compliance. That’s where Work From Anywhere comes in. They...

On episode 83 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into a fast-growing global mobility tech platform called Centuro Global with CEO Zain Ali! In a nutshell, Centuro Global provides companies looking to start or continue to expand internationally with the tech and resources to manage the process as well as partners and providers around the world to help them get there. As for Zain, he started his c...

I’ve been on a small break, but I’m excited to be back with episode 82 of the GMI Rocket show with Nitzan Yudan, Founder and CEO of a really exciting global mobility tech company, Benivo! Just in case you haven’t already heard of Benivo, in a nutshell, it bills itself as an end-to-end, single platform solution for Global Mobility teams to manage their globally mobile workforce and mobility program...

On Episode 81 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m honored to be speaking with serial entrepreneur Bruce Mennell, the CEO and Founder of Aora, which has codified the complete body of British nationality law. Bruce, an engineer by trade, worked in the financial industry and eventually becoming a head of technology at Deutsche Bank. He broke off in 1997 to launch his own company, Beauchamp Financial Technolo...

On Episode 80 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re exploring how Paul Bennett, CEO and Co-founder of relocation tech platform Perchpeek, are changing the game for relocating employees around the world! Paul studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics and Oxford, and after finishing school went traveling around the world. As he accepted a job at Amazon back home in London, he was dealing with the process o...

On Episode 79 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m really excited to talk to the co-founder of an early stage digital nomad visa tech startup: Tim Marting, co-founder and COO of Citizen Remote! After graduating from Kansas State University and working for two years in real estate, Tim, who is originally from Kansas City, Missouri, decided to travel and see the world. This profoundly changed him - Tim went...

On Episode 78 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into a tech solution for Canadian university international centers with Ganesh Neelanjanmath, CTO and Founder of iCent App. Believe it or not, Ganesh actually started his tech career in India at INSZoom, which was founded by Umesh Vaidyamath (who was also a guest on this show!) and is still one of the leading immigration case management platforms...

On Episode 77 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re in Toronto speaking with veteran Canadian immigration paralegal and founder of tech-enabled ImmiSight, Marc-Andre Ranger! Marc, who is originally from Quebec, has been working as an immigration paralegal for two decades. One of the major advantages of being a paralegal is that he’s spent those past 20 years in the thick of each immigration file, which ha...

On Episode 76 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re speaking with Joon Ahn, the CEO and Founder of Lawfully, an AI-powered immigration app that helps applicants track, analyze and get consults on immigration cases. Lawfully offers three solutions: (1) a USCIS & NVC case tracker that predicts adjudication times, RFE likelihood, etc., (2) mock interviews with former USCIS & Consular officers, and (3...

On Episode 75 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re exploring an e-learning platform Algorizin, which helps immigrants upskill to land great US tech jobs with founder and CEO Siam Hossain! Algorizin is an upskilling bootcamp for international students living in the US that helps them learn hands-on technical skills by working with industry experts. It also provides them with immigration support and helps...

For episode 74 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into the world of moving and mobility tech with Ryan Keintz, Co-founder & President of PricePoint! Basically, PricePoint brings data and price transparency to moving. Whether an international move as part of an employment immigration case or a domestic move from NYC to SF, PricePoint helps users determine the price of their move with confiden...

We’re going all the way to Singapore for Episode 73 of the GMI Rocket show, and we’ll be learning about a growing relocation tech startup, Moovaz, with Co-Founder Junxian Lee. Moovaz is an international relocation platform company that provides tech-enabled, end-to-end overseas relocation service. Moovaz covers, per their website, “Visa & Immigration, International Household Moving, Short-term...

On Episode 72 of the GMI Rocket show, we’re diving into a tech company tackling corporate housing, including for international employees, with Vivi Himmel, CEO & Co-Founder of AltoVita For employees who travel around the world for work, whether on short projects or years-long assignments, they often stay in corporate housing, whether temporarily while they find longer-term accommodations, or f...

For episode 71, we have Sergio Torres, Co-Founder & CEO at Alvva, a FinTech startup helping immigrants pay for their immigration applications! What’s really interesting about Alvva is that it enables immigrants to pay for their immigration applications while also helping them build their credit at the same time, which is important because traditional financing options are often unavailable to...