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Umesh Vaidyamath Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Umesh Vaidyamath has more than 14 years of proven senior technology and management experience in the software industry. As Chief Executive Officer of INSZoom, Umesh drives the overall direction of the company and oversees the company's engineering, marketing and sales divisions.

Umesh founded INSZoom in 1999. As CEO of INSZoom, Umesh managed the company's dramatic growth from a software start-up to the premier immigration case management software vendor and the largest independent software company in the immigration software industry, with a team of 9 people in the US, and 80+ software engineers in India. Umesh turned INSZoom into a profitable and financially sound company in less than three years.

Umesh earned a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology, Karnataka University, India, in 1989. Soon after graduating, he worked for a leading software technology company in Mumbai, India. He emigrated to the U.S., fittingly, on July 4th, 1990, as a member of a team working at U.S. Sprint in Kansas City, Kansas and has, since that day, worked diligently in various aspects of the technology industry.

Prior to INSZoom, Umesh's experience included leading a team of software engineers and architecting state-of-the-art large scale e-commerce and client server applications at Hewlett Packard, Intel Corporation, Mervyn's California, JB Hunt, Vodafone and AT & T.

Umesh is a frequent speaker on information technology issues at the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce in Hubli-Karnataka, India and regularly contributes his immigration expertise to leading Indian business magazines and newspapers. In addition, he is the recipient of the 2007 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award and a 2007 achievement award from Veerashaiva Samaja of North America.

Raj Vaidyamath Vice-President

Raj Vaidyamath has more than 15 years of management experience in enterprise software applications, technical services and business operations. As Vice-President of INSZoom, with a core focus on Customer Service and Information Technology, Raj ensures that INSZoom clients can successfully implement and maintain INSZoom products and solutions to meet their evolving business demands.

Prior to joining INSZoom, Raj held numerous senior software development and management positions at Mercedes Benz, AIG Insurance, UPS, Prudential, Eli Lilly and Sears Roebuck and Company.

Since 2000 at INSZOOM, Raj held a variety of technical support management positions and facilitated the company's organizational growth from a start-up team of just 4 members into a worldwide organization with nearly 80 professionals, expatriate assignments in India.

Raj earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication from B.V.B. College of Engineering and Technology, Karnataka University, India, in 1988. Soon after graduating from B.V.B., he worked for a leading software technology company in Mumbai, India. Raj first arrived in the United States in May, 1991 on a project for Arthur Anderson Consulting at Sears Roebuck and Company in Chicago, IL.

Sheri Mascorro Director of Business Development

As the Director of Business Development for INSZoom, Sheri Mascorro leads a continually growing team of regional sales managers and business professionals in the U.S., the U.K, India and throughout the world. Directly responsible for the overall management of INSZoom's sales, customer service and training teams, Sheri brings with her a strong background in sales and management experience.

Sheri has worked in sales and sales management for over twenty years and has worked with inside and outside sales teams, along with client relationship management and customer support operations, for leading U.S. corporations. Sheri’s most recent position included managing AT&T and other wireline, wireless and VoIP service carriers nationwide that provided custom software and database management for 911 emergency systems throughout the U.S.

Vishal Khanna Director of Marketing and Content

Vishal Khanna has worked with INSZoom in a range of projects since 2000. He played a core role in the early development of INSZoom marketing materials and branding/identity. Vishal officially became the Director of Marketing and Content with INSZoom in early 2007 and is responsible for managing the direction of the company's marketing and branding efforts internationally. In addition, Vishal manages the development of all content materials for the company, ensuring that INSZoom's knowledge base of materials related to immigration are of the highest caliber. Vishal is also creative director for inhouse@INSZoom.com, INSZoom's internal web design team.

Prior to joining INSZoom, Vishal held a range of positions in academia, journalism and web technologies. He worked in design and development with a range of internet start-ups in the 1990s and 2000s and his journalism has been published widely in specialty newspapers and magazines.

Vishal earned a Bachelor's Degree in South Asian Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995 and a Master's Degree in Creative Writing from Naropa Institute in 1999. He has received additional graduate training in public health and journalism. An advocate of immigrants' rights, Vishal has provided his time to work on various campaigns to better understand the health and access to healthcare for migrant workers in rural areas in the U.S.