About Gotavi

We've watched businesses lose time, money, and momentum to the same fixable problems for three decades. At some point, you stop watching and start building.

Thirty years of building and scaling companies in corporate services taught us where businesses get stuck. We've served thousands of them, new and established, running into the same problems: the gaps between vendors, the friction in formation, the licensing questions nobody has a clean answer to, the compliance details that slip through the cracks.

Gotavi is what we always wanted to hand them: formation, insurance, payments, licensing, compliance, and AI visibility, all in one place.

We built it for business owners at every stage, the advisors and professionals who serve them, and organizations that want to bring these services directly to their communities.

The Team

Shai Stern

Shai Stern

Founder

Shai is a serial entrepreneur who has spent 30 years building and scaling companies in the corporate services and fintech space. He built Vintage Filings, Vcorp Services, and Vcheck Global, and served as Co-Chairman and CEO of CheckAlt for over 15 years. He's worked with banks, credit unions, attorneys, CPAs, and businesses at every stage of growth.
That experience taught him exactly where the gaps are. At Gotavi, he's filling them - one platform, the whole lifecycle.

Elishah Herman

Elishah Herman

Technical Co-Founder

Elishah spent 10 years at HSBC as Global Vice President of Data Platforms and Marketing Technology. He built cloud infrastructure that processed billions of data transactions annually across 30+ global markets, architected data environments that saved over $5 million in operating costs, and was named HSBC Innovator of the Year in 2024.
He's the engineering and data intelligence backbone of Gotavi - the reason the platform works the way it does, and keeps getting smarter.

Michelle Miklosey

Michelle Miklosey

Co-Founder

Michelle started her career as executive assistant to Shai, supporting his work across multiple companies including Vcheck Global and Vcorp Services. She went on to spend 13 years at CheckAlt, rising to Chief of Staff. Her background is in administration, execution, and customer support.
At Gotavi, she owns all three. Her job is making sure every business owner who comes through the platform feels like someone actually picked up the phone.

Eli Stern

Eli Stern

Head of Sales & Partnerships

Eli is the person you'll likely hear from first. He came up through CheckAlt in sales and business development before joining Gotavi, and he's been on the move ever since - meeting founders, attorneys, CPAs, VCs, and accelerators everywhere from NYC tech events to client offices across the country.
He's building the partnerships that extend Gotavi's reach, and he genuinely loves doing it.

Sales & partnerships: estern@gotavi.co
(Head of Sales & Partnerships)