Governing with Values, Experience and Dedication
VISANOW's dedicated Board of Directors brings expertise in immigration, law, business, and technology to the company.
Board Members Passionate about Service
Meet our board members and you'll understand where VISANOW's success comes from -- experts who care about better value, customer service, and results for their clients.
Board of Directors
Robert C. Meltzer
Chairman
Robert C. Meltzer has taken VISANOW from concept to reality and now leads the company in its pursuit of revolutionizing immigration process management. Beginning his career at the legal office of the United Nations World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Robert concentrated on public international law, international contracts, and international copyright. Upon returning to the U.S. in 1986, he entered private practice where he continued in international law and expanded his practice to include immigration law. After practicing immigration law for over 15 years, he realized the potential to utilize technology to streamline the management of the immigration process and founded VISANOW.
Robert received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder; a Juris Doctor from Northern Illinois University College of Law and additional certificates and diplomas from the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland; The Institute de Internationale Droits de L'homme in Strasbourg, France; and the University of Salzburg/McGeorge School of Law in Salzburg, Austria.
Phil Schlein
Director
Phil is a Venture Partner with USVP. He joined the venture capital firm in 1985 after a successful 28-year career as an executive in the retailing industry. Prior to USVP, he served as President and CEO of Macy's California and led the store's sales growth from $200 million to nearly $1.2 billion and profit growth from $17 million to $108 million. He also worked for R.H. Macy, Inc. and served on the Board of Directors for Apple Computers from 1979 to 1987.
With USVP, Phil has originated a number of consumer/retail industry investments, including PETsMART, Fresh Choice and The House of Blues. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Catalist, Specialtys, Auction Drop and Oakville Grocery. In recent years, he served on the Boards of Directors of notable Internet and eCommerce ventures, such as iVillage, HomeGrocer.com and NBCi.
Phil is a guest lecturer in graduate classrooms at Stanford and Santa Clara University. He has two children, four grandchildren, and a 300-year old elder he looks up to: Emily, a magnificent oak in the center of his Napa Valley property, where he has a vineyard and grows mostly Cabernets. Phil is on the boards of the California College of Art, the San Francisco Botanical Gardens and the diRosa Preserve, a project in Napa Valley that is seeking to create a public museum to show Rene diRosa's private collection of California artists.
Sam Morasca
Director
Samuel Morasca Jr. has more than 24 years of executive experience managing P&L’s ranging from $500 million to $19 billion in revenue. For the past 10 years, Morasca has served as an advisor, active board member, and chairman of middle-market, privately held companies. He has actively served on eight boards, chairing four of them.
Morasca is an Executive Partner with SOLIDexecutive, Inc., an operating partner with Sterling Partners, a global private equity firm; and a staff advisor for the Gerson Lehrman Group Consultancy.
With many years of international business experience with Shell Oil Company and its affiliates, most recently as Vice President of Marketing, he managed U.S. oil products marketing for Shell, Texaco and Saudi Aramco Alliance. He captured cost reduction/synergy benefits of over $250 million per year, which was a 50 percent improvement over previous expenditures. While serving as Vice President Marketing for Shell's U.S. oil products wholesale and retail business, he conceived and oversaw implementation of new product extension initiatives and joint ventures, which generated over $1 billion of new business.
In addition to serving on a number of boards, Sam is an Executive Professor at the University Of Houston Graduate Business School. He earned his Bachelor's of Science degree from Penn State and MBA from Boston College.
Glenn Gottfried
Director
Mr. Gottfried is chief operating officer and co-founder of Gentry Capital Partners, LLC, heading up its investment banking practice. Glenn is a high performance investment banker and operating executive who excels in supporting owners and management teams in raising growth capital and executing acquisition and divestiture strategies.
Prior to Gentry, Glenn was the CEO of Infolure, a company that specializes in data management and marketing applications. Glenn's areas of expertise include product development, business process transformation, information and technology management, and new business start up. Prior to his position at Infolure, Glenn served as the President of Thomson TFP, a software and directory publishing firm serving the financial services industry. He led the transformation of TFP into a highly profitable, growth oriented, web-enabled solutions company significantly increasing revenue from information technology products. Prior to Thomson, Glenn held upper management positions with OMGEO and Midwest Securities Trust Company, among others.
In addition to VISANOW, Glenn serves on the Board of Advisors for the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences for the University of Vermont and Bankers Toolbox, Inc. He earned a Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Vermont along with a Masters of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Glenn also received his MBA from the University of Chicago.
Pong Lim
Director
Mr. Lim has over 25 years of hands-on successful experience in investing and managing high technology private and public companies. Mr. Lim has served as Chairman and CEO for startups, buyouts, and turnarounds after re-founding Ditech Communications (DITC) in 1994 and grew it to IPO in 1999. In year 2000, Mr. Lim has established Lim Capital Group to invest in venture capital, private equity and hedge funds.
Since year 2000, Mr. Lim has co-founded and invested in companies that target VoIP communications, optical network communications, wireless networking and Internet based e-commerce markets. Previously, Pong held general management, engineering and finance positions at Alcatel/DSC/Granger Associates, Fairchild Semiconductors, and Proctor & Gamble
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