Immigration, built by people who've lived it

Jamie is Concord's Co-Founder and the CEO of Crimson Education, the global admissions firm he founded in 2013 and scaled into 30+ countries over more than a decade of building and operating a multi-continent business. He launched Concord to fix the immigration wall that holds back world-class talent.

Kevin is Concord's Co-Founder and CEO, with a decade of building startups alongside founders. He ran early-stage programmes at The ICEHOUSE and Vodafone's xone venture accelerator, then joined Crimson Education as a founding executive of Crimson Global Academy, overseeing the regional and country managers who scaled it across global markets.

Ben is Concord's CTO, building the AI platform that gives founders and people teams real visibility over their visa pipeline. A First Class Honours mechatronics engineer from the University of Auckland and a Spark Entrepreneur Programme alum, he previously led digital and tech at Vodafone xone, backing startups with global ambition.

Christine leads Growth Operations at Concord, after scaling Tracksuit's people function from 12 to 200 through Seed to Series B. She holds a UCL MBA with Distinction and the Capstone Award, and brings the operating muscle that high-growth startups need to move global talent.

Yijing is a US immigration attorney at Concord with dual legal training in the United States and China, holding a JD from Washington University in St. Louis and an LLB from Tsinghua University. She handles the full employment-based stack that startups care about, including H-1B, O-1, EB-1, EB-2 NIW, and PERM filings, and is fluent in English and Mandarin.

Yoonho is an immigration attorney at Concord, joining after more than six years at Fragomen, one of the largest business immigration firms in the world. He holds a JD from Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, the CALI Award in International Law, and brings big-firm rigour to the founder-led startups Concord serves.

Thrapthi is a US immigration attorney at Concord, based in New York. She began her legal career in corporate and commercial litigation in India before earning her JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, where she was named a James Kent Scholar. She now helps early-stage startups, founders and exceptional talent navigate complex US immigration challenges, and is particularly drawn to unconventional cases that don't come with straightforward answers. Having been through the immigration journey herself, she knows that behind every petition is a person with a great deal at stake, and she brings rigorous legal analysis, creative strategy and persistence to every case.

Hugo is a Migration Agent for Australia at Concord, based in Sydney. With seven years across case work and migration operations, including running Operations at Tagarela Migration, he is the person founders want when an Australian visa pathway actually needs to move.

Ganesh is a Migration Agent at Concord, based in Sydney (Licensed Immigration Adviser 202601178). He spends his time marrying cutting-edge AI with deep migration expertise, which is exactly what founders moving talent in and out of Australia want from their agent.

Sejoo is a Licensed Immigration Adviser at Concord, based in Auckland. When his family left New Zealand after high school he chose to stay, studied at the University of Auckland, and went through the system himself, from a Student Visa to a Post Study Work Visa, an AEWV and finally permanent residence. Fully licensed and fluent in three languages, he advises across the full range of New Zealand visas, from AEWV and Skilled Migrant residence to PPI responses and employer accreditation, which is exactly what high-growth companies hiring talent into New Zealand need.

Yulia is a licensed Canadian immigration practitioner based in Toronto, Canada. She brings over nine years of expertise spanning across all existing Canadian immigration programs, supporting high growth start-ups with expansion to Canada, assisting Canadian companies with retention of skilled foreign talent, and setting strategies for work extensions, transitions to permanent residence and citizenship.

Nancy McDonald is Global Head of Marketing at Concord. A former News Corp journalist, she has nearly two decades of senior marketing and PR experience at Greencross, Bastion, Access and WPP. As the founder of NMD PR, she spent nearly nine years advising startup founders through capital raises, positioning and tier 1 media. She has built two businesses of her own and knows what it takes to scale, and the hustle of being a Founder. She is passionate about helping fast growth companies and ambitious founders build global businesses.

Molly leads Concord's growth across North America from New York, helping founders and fast-growing companies work out their visa options and make the jump into the US market. She spent four years at Crimson Education, rising from a junior role to become its youngest Country Manager and leading the New Zealand business. A Kiwi who made her own move to New York as a Concord client, she knows first-hand what it takes to take your career, or your team, across borders.

Grace is Concord’s Founding Account Manager, based in Auckland, and the first point of contact for the companies Concord helps bring talent across borders. She spent four years in People & Culture at ZURU, a global company with more than 5,000 team members, where she worked across HR for teams in multiple countries and saw firsthand how a slow visa process can hold up a great hire. She even worked with Concord on a visa during her time there, so she knows exactly what HR and talent teams need from an immigration partner.