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

This is the FIRST ever returning guest on the GMI Rocket show, and I couldn’t be more excited! For episode 45, Bahar Ansari is back to talk about marketing & branding for immigration!!  If you didn’t catch the first episode, Definitely go back and listening to Bahar’s story.  How she immigrated to the US, became a lawyer, started her own practice and a legal tech company, and recentl...

Join my discussion with immigration attorney, podcast host, entrepreneur, and immigration tech founder James Betzold, CEO of Prima. Law!  James is an experienced immigration attorney, running his own immigration practice for over a decade.  But along the way, James has started multiple ventures, including a podcast, a virtual immigration paralegal company, and of course Prima. Law, a cas...

Join my discussion with an immigration tech founder building a company that helps refugees upskill and integrate: Casey Myers, founder of One Digital World. One Digital World helps women inside refugee camps build English skills, computer skills, and more, to prepare for employment and better economic opportunities.  In 2016, Casey left a good job in higher ed and traveled to over 30 countrie...

Join my discussion with Henry Soo, founder, and CEO of Settlely, an online resettlement concierge based in Vancouver. Settlely helps connect immigrant newcomers to life's essentials using an on demand concierge model and Henry, Settle’s founder and CEO, has a fascinating story.  His great grandfather moved to California during the gold rush, and after a few generations, Henry was born and rai...

Jeremy Fudge, Managing Partner at BAL!  BAL is one of the world’s biggest and most recognized corporate immigration law firms but is also a technology leader as well.  They’ve been pioneering immigration tech for decades, have built their own platform called Cobalt as well as other immigration tech tools, and are constantly investing in the up-and-coming.  So Jeremy, as a managing p...

Join my discussion with Michael Guirguis, the CEO of Seso, and he’s tackling agricultural immigration and the H-2A visa.  Michal and his team come from consulting & farming rather than immigration, and I think this is SUPER important because innovation within an industry is often inspired by an outside perspective.  As for Michael, he graduated from Stanford with a degree in Economic...

For episode 39 of the GMI Rocket show, my guest is someone with an incredibly impressive career spanning the entire globe and ending in immigration tech: Brendan Ryan, CEO of Nomadic!  Brendan has had an illustrious career. First, he spent more than 2 decades in the Australian government: Department of Immigration, embassies in the Philippines and Hong Kong, and India to name a few.  Bre...

Today is a different type of guest on the GMI Rocket show - more of an INTRApreneur within a large corporation than my typical founder guest: Damian Wilson, manager at Abogado.com  Damian has been with Thomson Reuters since 2012, moving up the ladder every few years.  He worked with law firms, helping them with TR’s SaaS product, and at FindLaw assisting law firms with marketing.  E...

I’m super excited for episode 37 of the GMI Rocket show because my guest is immigration lawyer, tech founder, and social media guru Bahar Ansari, founder of 2nd.law and co-founder of Case.one I met Bahar at the first-ever AILA tech and innovation summit in 2019. We connected right away over immigration tech and how it can help immigration law firms automate, streamline and scale.  But Bahar i...

My guest today on the GMI Rocket show is Amélie-Sophie Vavrovsky, co-founder of Formally, an immigration tech startup that’s simplifying immigration applications through accessible design.  Formally focuses on asylum applications (though it’s expanding) and, importantly, supports multiple languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.  Amélie herself has an incredible...

Today is episode 33 of the GMI Rocket show, and I’m joined by Ilya Brotzky, the CEO & founder of VanHack, which connects tech talent from around the world who are willing to relocate with hiring employers. VanHack is based in Vancouver, BC, but its reach is truly global. They have over 180,000 members from 100+ countries.  And it’s not just pure recruiting - VanHack hosts conferences, web...

Today, in episode 34 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m interviewing one of the immigration tech stars of the last few years: Xiao Wang, co-founder, and CEO of Boundless. I actually first heard about Boundless on an episode of The Pitch, a podcast where guests pitch their startups to a panel of VC investors.  I still remember the day - I was on the bike at my gym, and I was SO HAPPY to hear immigrat...

For Episode 35 of the GMI Rocket show, I’m interviewing the CEO of one of the largest immigration tech companies in the world! Dick Burke, CEO of Envoy Global. After working as a corporate lawyer for most of the 90s, Dick spent over a decade at Classified Ventures, a VC firm that famously owned Cars.com.  Then in 2012, he became President at Apartments.com, wherein for just 2 years, he helped...

We’re exploring a nonprofit using tech to connect skilled refugees with jobs. Joining me is the CTO and co-founder John Cameron. Talent Beyond Boundaries helps, as their website puts it, unlock skilled migration pathways for refugees.  But John doesn’t come from an immigration law background - he was actually an innovator in the financial tech space first.  John had an illustrious career...

My guest today is Shiv CS, founder, and CEO of ImmiLytics. ImmiLytics provides immigration data analytics and business intelligence that allows immigration law firms & teams to dive into their data in new and insightful ways, streamline their processes and make better decisions. Shiv’s story is a really exciting one - he came to the US from India in 2000 and worked in the immigration industry...

Today we’re diving into relocation tech with my guest Nitesh Mehrotra, CEO, and founder of SixWallz. SixWallz is working to democratize relocation services by helping employees moving to a new city for work find the perfect neighborhood.  How do they do this? They leverage data from the real estate, relocation, and HR industries to provide “instant neighborhood & home recommendations to a...

My guest is someone who is truly disrupting the human side of international mobility: Lynn Greenberg, co-founder and CEO of Pivt! Pivt is a social app geared towards relocated, mobile and remote employees - folks moving across the world to take on new, exciting work opportunities.   Those international opportunities, however, can come at a cost.  Indeed, relocated employees often mo...

Join my discussion with Elena Antoneac, CEO and founder of xpath.global, all the way from Romania!!  Elena started her career in HR and global mobility, and then in 2013 founded Nestlers, a boutique law firm focused on immigration, global mobility and employment based in Romania & Moldova.  She slowly started to realize that there wasn’t an easy way for companies around the world to...

I’m excited to go across the Atlantic for episode 27 of the GMI Rocket show with the brilliant Sophy King, founder of Peregrine Immigration & Immiguru (acquired in 2015) and Owl Immigration! In 2011, after 6+ years working for other immigration companies, Sophy launched her own consultancy, Peregrine Immigration, and then built and launched two tech platforms: Immiguru,a web-based immigration...

Join my discussion with Jacob Sapochnick, founder of Sapochnick Law Firm! Jacob is based in San Diego, but his reach is truly global (and massive): 279K followers on Instagram, 213.3K followers on TikTok and 68K subscribers on YouTube.  And I know other immigration lawyers are on these platforms too, but Jacob was often one of the first to jump on and, one of the most prolific and successful....

I’m so excited to have Maneesha Mukhi, a YouTube expert who focuses on lawyers, particularly immigration lawyers!  Maneesha actually immigrated to the US and had F-1 visas, H-1B visas at a number of jobs, got her work-based GC process started multiple times, and only somewhat recently became a citizen.  Maneesha couldn’t find a ton of info to help her navigate the immigration labyrinth,...

Join my discussion with Sophie Alcorn, a Silicon Valley-based immigration attorney, entrepreneur and marketing guru! Sophie got her BA from Stanford and her JD from WashU Law School. She has been working in the immigration space since her 3L internship with EOIR.  In the past 5 years, however, Sophie went from successful immigration attorney to content creator, speaker, entrepreneur and marke...

Join my discussion today with Chris Richardson, co-founder of Argo, a tech-enabled company that connects visa applicants with former consular officers to prep and support them for their visa interviews. Here's what we'll be discussing: Chris’s early days and his path in college and law school, How Chris ended in big law doing employment and immigration, Why Chris left law firm life and became a Fo...

Join my discussion today with Jeffrey O'Brien, founder of Mobile Pathways, which helps undocumented and under-documented immigrants gain access to reliable legal information about their numerous pathways to immigration via mobile phone technology. The nonprofit immigration tech model is super interesting and unique, so I'm particularly excited for this episode!  Here's what we'll be discussin...

Join my discussion with Ed Cohen, Founder of Global Business News, a company that hosts conferences, provides independent news and industry updates, and more all about global HR, mobility, relocation, immigration, and more. Ed Cohen is a household name in the industry, so let's get to know the ban who is usually the one interviewing others!  Here's what we'll be discussing:  Ed's early l...