Leadership
Tracker Corp Leadership Team
Fred Colman, MSEE - President and Co-Founder
Julie Pearl, J.D., MPA - General Counsel and Co-Founder
Brett Weiss - Chief Operating Officer
Patti Paul - Vice President, CAO
Kristin Mauger - Director, Customer Services
David Ziegler - Vice President of Technology
Fred Colman, MSEE - President and Co-Founder
Fred founded Tracker Corp more than 10 years ago when he and Julie Pearl saw a need in the market for an automated solution for law firms that handled tremendous volumes of H1-B Visas. As President, he drives the company's vision of providing secure and flexible system solutions, supported by world class customer service. Fred has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving growth in the technology industry.
Prior to Tracker, Fred was an electrical engineer for more than 25 years, where he has received international accolades and more than a dozen patents for his innovations. He designed life-altering medical devices, including the early microprocessor-based pacemakers and several devices to treat diabetes. Fred held key leadership roles at MiniMed, now Medtronics, and TheraSense, now Abbott Labs. At both MinMed and TheraSense, he was among the first employees and as a member of the executive team contributed to their growth into billion-dollar public companies. Fred earned Electrical Engineering degrees (BS and MS) from the University of Michigan.
Julie Pearl, J.D., MPA - General Counsel and Co-Founder
Julie's inspiration for Tracker Corp was to address her clients' need to manage and store immigration paperwork more efficiently. This was the beginning of the industry's leading Immigration Management Solution - Tracker Immigration.
In addition to her role as Chairman of Tracker Corp, Julie is founder and Managing Attorney of Pearl Law Group, one of California's largest corporate immigration law firms. Julie is a former California Deputy Attorney General. Pioneering new approaches in immigration service delivery to corporate clients, she and her law firm are consistently recognized among leading publications and associations for their accomplishments, including:
- #1 Woman-Owned Law Firm in San Francisco (SF Business Times)
- Chambers USA Guide: "America's Leading Business Lawyers"
- Lawdragon 500: One of five chosen business immigration lawyers in the U.S.
- Human Resource Executive Magazine 2009 and 2010: "The Nation's Most Powerful Employment Attorneys" and "The Nation's Top 15 Immigration Attorneys"
- International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration Lawyers
- Super Lawyers of the Bay Area, Super Lawyers Magazine
- Who's Who in American Law
- Who's Who of American Women
Julie graduated from Stanford (BA), Harvard (MPA), and UC-Hastings (JD).
Brett Weiss - Chief Operating Officer
Brett Weiss has more than a decade of leadership experience in enterprise software. Partnering with Fortune 500 employers an others, Brett pioneered new ways to automate compliance, while seamlessly integrating with employers' various systems and human processes.
He has been featured nationally as an expert panelist and commentator on technology in employer compliance. He previously launched the highly successful company, Remedy Interactive, (a compliance SaaS business for large employers), which he shepherded from start-up to "One of the Best Places to Work in the Bay Area, 2008 & 2009" (San Francisco Business Times, Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and East Bay Business Times). He earned a Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a Master’s from UC San Francisco .
Patti Paul - Vice President, CAO
As a finance professional with over 12 years of experience in senior level positions, Patti has helped companies manage and improve upon their accounting, budgeting and operations functions. Her most recent position prior to joining Tracker Corp in 2002 was that of VP of Finance and Operations for an on-line wine merchant. Patti received her MBA from SUNY at Albany, New York.
Kristin Mauger, MBA - Director, Customer Services
Kristin leads the Customer Service team and is responsible for ensuring all of Tracker Corp's customers are delighted with their Immigration or I-9 solution. Kristin has over 16 years of customer service, training and technical support experience. Her team at Tracker Corp has been widely acclaimed by immigration professionals for delivering outstanding customer care, year after year. After serving in the U.S. Army in a Patriot Missile unit, she worked in pharmaceutical technology. Kristin earned her MBA along with additional certifications from San Francisco State University.
David Ziegler - Vice President of Technology
David is responsible for development of all Tracker Corp products, including Tracker Immigration and Tracker I-9. An exemplary champion of continual product enhancement regimen at Tracker Corp, David conducts expert design in step with customers' suggestions. As one of the company's first employees, his extensive product knowledge allows him to strategically analyze product suggestions and deliver the most useful improvements. David holds a BA in English and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has done extensive work toward his PhD.
