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Immigration Tech & Marketing - The GMI Rocket Show - Hosted by Roman Zelichenko.
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Immigration Tech & Marketing - The GMI Rocket Show - Hosted by Roman Zelichenko. episodes
- Ryan Keintz, Co-founder, PricePoint: Merger with Cend moving marketplace
🎙 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 inquiry again. Get $250 off your first month by using this link 👉https://lnkd.in/e9rADmmD 👈 or reach out to them directly and tell them you heard about them on the GMI Rocket show!!)PricePoint brings data and price transparency to moving, whether an international move as part of an employment immigration case or a domestic move. Listen to my previous episode with Ryan to hear his story and how he launched and grew PricePoint!In this episode, we’re diving into PricePoint’s recent merger with Cend, an innovative US moving marketplace, and the story behind it.So, here’s what Ryan and I are going to be talking about:🔹A quick recap of Ryan’s career in moving and why he decided to launch PricePoint🔹A previous acquisition that fell through at the 11th hour, and lessons learned🔹How PricePoint approached its merger with Cend and what made it a success🔹Ryan’s vision for the future of PricePoint post-merger, and thoughts on M&A in generalAnd more!So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #moving----Check out PricePoint here: https://www.pricepointmoves.com/Connect with Ryan here: / ryankeintzDigital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! / romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-pub...1 hr 1 min - Mikhail Arsentiev, Founder, Skylex: 24/7 immigration lawyer, CRM & text app
🎙 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, but he realized it was something others could use as well.
Since launching, Skylex has expanded to become a kind of CRM, consult booking platform and, most recently, with a coworking space offering, all with the goal of making it easy for clients to reach an immigration lawyer while also helping immigration lawyers grow their firms.
Mikhail himself is from Russia, and attended George Washington University Law School, and has been practicing immigration law for over a decade, based in Brooklyn, NY today.
So, here’s what Mikhail and I are going to be talking about:
- Mikhail’s early life back home and his immigration journey to the US
- What drew Mikhail to law school in the US, and his experience practicing immigration law
- How the idea to build an app to serve his clients came to him, and what Mikhail did first
- How Skylex works, what it does today, and who it serves
- Mikhail’s thoughts on the future of immigration tech and his product
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!
❤️❤️ And a huge thank you to Lex Reception for sponsoring the GMI Rocket show! Lex Reception is a legal intake, reception and client support service to help you make sure you never miss a client call or prospect inquiry again. Get $250 off your first month of service by using this link, or reaching out to them directly and telling them you heard about them on the GMI Rocket show!! 👉https://www.lexreception.com/
#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #h1bvisa
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Check out Skylex here: https://skylexit.com/
Connect with Mikhail here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikhail-arsentiev-676477215/
Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/
Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/
Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/
1 hr - Atal Agarwal, Founder, Immigrant First: Green card applications using AI
🎙 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 eventually an H-1B visa, worked as a software engineer, and even got a master’s at UC Santa Barbara.
His career was going swimmingly until, in 2022, he found himself part of a layoff - his H-1B-sponsored job was no longer, and he now had 60 days to either find a new job or leave the US.
Over the next 2 months, Atal published a day-by-day account of his layoff which went viral, completed an Ironman race, and found a company that heard his plea and offered him a job.
But while he was seemingly spared, Atal felt he suffered an injustice. And, as he started using ChatGPT to draft his own green card application, Immigrant First was born.
So, here’s what Atal and I are going to be talking about:
- Atal’s early life in India, studies at IIT and how he came to the US,
- Atal’s first impression of the US immigration system and his H-1B career progression
- How Atal suddenly got laid off, and what happened in that first 60 days
- What inspired Atal to use AI for his own green card and how that became Immigrant First
- What Immigrant First does today and Atal’s vision for the company and immigration tech
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!
#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #h1bvisa
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Check out Immigrant First here: https://immigrantfirst.ai/
Connect with Atal here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atalovesyou/
Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/
Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/
Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/
1 hr 17 min - Marc Pavlopoulos, CEO, Syndesus: Canadian PEO for US tech startups & talent
🎙 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 Silicon Valley.
Over those many years in the startup world, Marc recognized that one of the biggest needs most startups had were tech workers.
At the same time, his experience getting a student visa and a work visa in Canada made him realize how much simpler Canadian immigration was (and is) than US immigration.
So in 2014, he left his last job and launched Syndesus, which now helps US companies hire foreign-born tech workers remotely in Canada (focused on those who lose the H-1B lottery), matches vetted, skilled tech workers with Canadian employers, and provides PEO services in Canada.
Here’s what Marc and I are going to be talking about:
- Marc’s family’s immigration story and his early years growing up and in school
- How Marc got into the startup world in 90s and what it was like before the Dot Com crash
- Marc’s experience as a foreign student and worker in Canada
- What inspired Marc to launch Syndesus and what the company did in the early days
- What Syndesus does today and Marc’s view of the future or Canadian PEO + tech
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!
#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #siliconvalley
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Check out Syndesus here: https://syndesus.com/
Connect with Marc here: https://linkedin.com/in/marcpavlopoulos
Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/
Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/
Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/
1 hr 13 min - Antuan Vazquez, CEO & co-founder, DraftyAI: Generative AI immigration tech
🎙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 alongside immigration attorney Nadine Navarro, who is a long-time personal friend of Antuan, DraftyAI is the kind of tool that actually saves immigration attorneys multiple hours per case by drafting lengthy documents in just minutes.Like many immigration tech founders, Antuan also has an immigration story - his family moved to the US from Cuba, which we’ll dive into - and a fascinating journey that started with studying bioengineering, working in biotech and then starting a consulting companies wSo, here’s what Antuan and I are going to be talking about:- Antuan’s family immigration story and early years
- How Antuan got into bioengineering and the beginning of his career
- Antuan’s experience starting his own tech consultancy for biotech startups
- How Antuan pivoted to immigration and came about co-founding and launching DraftyAI
- How DraftyAI works today, future plans, and thoughts about AI in immigration
And more!So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #legaltech----Check out DraftyAI here: https://www.draftyai.com/Connect with Antuan here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antuanvazquez/Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! romanzelichenko1 hr 28 min - Evren Ay, Founder, MotaWord: Certified immigration translation tech startup
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 translation (which is great for small immigration firms that want their sites to be in several languages), and more.Evren is originally from Turkey, spent a lot of his youth in France, and now lives in New York. Evren comes from an entrepreneurial household, having watched his father start and grow a travel agency (which is what brought the family to Paris, France in the first place) among other businesses.And it seems that the entrepreneurial bug bit Evren too!Evren has been the owner of a general translation company, Link-Translations, for almost three decades. About 10 years ago, Evren turned that expertise into a tech solution, MotaWord.So, here’s what Evren and I are going to be talking about:- Evren’s early life, moving around the world and growing up in Paris.
- How Evren’s exposure to entrepreneurship at a younger age shaped him
- How Evren first got into translation, and what he did to grow that businesses.
- What drove Evren to dive into the tech side of translation services
- Evren’s thoughts on the future of translation tech, especially within immigration
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #translation----Check out MotaWord here: https://www.motaword.com/Connect with Evren here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evren-ay-566701/Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/1 hr 18 min - Ben Cross, CEO, GLOMO: Biz dev, branding and LinkedIn in global mobility
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 + Relo, a long-running and popular live show that interviews professionals within global mobility on everything from industry trends to policy changes to news updates to technology and more.Ben’s journey started at PODS, handling corporate relocation. From there, Ben quickly worked his way up the corporate ladder at several relocation companies and found success quickly. He was also building a brand on LinkedIn at the same time.Ben launched his show, Love + Relo, out of his office while at his last job, and the show absolutely took off. Eventually, he left and launched GLOMO in 2020.So, here’s what Ben and I are going to be talking about:- Ben’s early life and attending college in upstate New York
- How Ben fell into the relocation industry at PODS and how his career grew over the years
- What inspired Ben to start Love + Relo, and how the show impacted his life
- When Ben decided to start GLOMO, how he did it and what GLOMO does today
- Ben’s thoughts on the future of GLOMO and the global mobility industry more broadly
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #migration----Check out GLOMO here: https://glomo.com/Connect with Ben here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbencross/Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/1 hr - John Lee, CEO, Work From Anywhere: Solving global tax compliance for “WFA”
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 leverage a proprietary algorithm and a network of tax consultants to help companies implement the right remote work model, accounting for risks and considering multiple employment options including setting up an entity, using an employer of record, hiring contractors or using digital nomad visas.As for John, he studied accounting at University College Dublin and worked in various accounting positions in different countries for a decade until he started his first company, CultureMee, which helps global travelers navigate and learn other cultures.Eventually, he launched Work From Anywhere, tackling tax in the growing remote work landscape.So, here’s what John and I are going to be talking about:- John’s early life and how he got interested in accounting and finance
- John’s experience working in accounting for a decade, and what he learned
- What led John to start his first business, CultureMee, and what that was like
- How Work From Anywhere was born, how the company works and where it’s headed
- John’s thoughts on the future of global mobility and the role technology plays in the industry
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #migration----Check out Work From Anywhere here: https://www.wfa.team/Connect with John here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j0hnlee/Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/1 hr 17 min - Zain Ali, CEO, Centuro Global: Global business expansion tech platform
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 career as a corporate and litigation attorney, first at the international law firm of Bird & Bird and then in-house representing UK record labels and promoting UK music internationally.In 2018, Zain left his stable career as an attorney to launch what would eventually become Centuro Global, a platform enabling companies to expand internationally.And the timing couldn’t have been better, as COVID forced companies to look at international hiring and business development as more and more industries have gone digital.So, here’s what Zain and I are going to be talking about:- Zain’s early life and what drew him to study law at university
- Zain’s attorney experience, both at one of the world’s largest law firms and in house.
- What led to the idea behind Centuro Global and how Zain got the company started
- Early days of building Centuro Global and what the company does today
- Zain’s vision for the future of both Centuro Global and the mobility tech industry
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #migration----Check out Centuro Global here: https://www.centuroglobal.com/Connect with Zain here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zain-ali-global-expansion/Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/1 hr 10 min - Nitzan Yudan, Founder & CEO, Benivo: End-to-end global mobility platform
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 programs.As for Nitzan, he started his career in tech back in the early 2000s in Israel. After graduating from Ben Gurion University with a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management he worked in technical roles at a few companies, including one of Israel’s biggest banks, Bank Hapoalim.After a few years, Nitzan went back to school, this time to London Business School, received an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship, and went on to work at American Express.But as with most entrepreneurs, he had a calling to build something. So not long after he started his role at AmEx, in 2010, he launched what would become the Benivo we know today.So, here’s what Nitzan and I are going to be talking about:- Nitzan’s early life and why he went on to study engineering.
- What led Nitzan to go back to school and both study and work in finance and business.
- What inspired Nitzan to come up with Benivo and leave his full-time job to build it.
- Early days of building Benivo and how the company has grown over the years
- What Benivo does today, what’s next, and Nitzan’s vision for the future of mobility tech
And more!
So please join us, ask questions and leave comments!#immigration #globalmobility #immigrationlaw #relocation #migration----Check out Benivo here: https://www.benivo.com/Connect with Nitzan here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitzan-yudan-3582791/Digital marketing for immigration & global mobility at GMI Rocket: https://gmirocket.com/Digitize your LCA posting and PAF process with LaborLess: https://laborless.io/Connect with Roman Zelichenko on LinkedIn! https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanzelichenko-electronic-lca-posting-public-access-file/1 hr 11 min
About Immigration Tech & Marketing - The GMI Rocket Show - Hosted by Roman Zelichenko.
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The GMI Rocket podcast is hosted by me, Roman Zelichenko, an immigration lawyer-turned-immigration tech startup founder interviewing immigration technology founder and executives, and other influential people in the immigration and global mobility industry
About me:
I'm the co-founder and CEO of LaborLess, an H-1B compliance startup (http://www.laborless.io)
I'm the founder of GMI Rocket, a digital market agency helping immigration and global mobility firms with marketing (http://www.gmirocket.com)
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