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.
He has a vineyard where he 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 the Napa Valley that is seeking to create a public museum
to show Rene diRosa's private collection of California artists.
Sam Morasca
Director
With nearly 30 years of international business experience for Shell Oil Company
and its affiliates, Sam has taken on the role of advising VISANOW on sales,
marketing and business growth strategies.
Sam's areas of expertise include sales and marketing, product development,
project management, organizational development, financial and investment
analysis and board directorships. In his last position, Vice President
Marketing, he managed US 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 US 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 of
Science degree from Penn State and MBA from Boston College.
Glenn Gottfried
Director
Glenn is 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 Bachelors 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 start-ups, 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.