paradiGM Community has five advocacy teams, which are: Gather, Grow, Give, Diversity and Communications.
The paradiGM Communications team has the role of organising, coordinating and informing members about our community’s events and activities. The main tasks of this team are:
- Overseeing our website.
- Helping to organise other advocacy teams’ events and activities.
- Creating informative and engaging content.
- Preparing promotional content for the community.
We aim to help create a more inclusive, diverse and unique community dedicated to professionals in the global mobility and related sectors.
Communications Team
Massimo
Massimo Maesen – Advocate and founder member and director of paradiGM .
Massimo is the grandson of Italian immigrants and a Dutch grandmother, so there was always a strong connection in his life to immigration law, and helping foreign nationals in moving from one country to another, either for work or other reasons.
Massimo has worked over 15 years in immigration and is an Belgian immigration attorney since 13 years, having worked on Belgian, Luxembourg, French, Swiss and Dutch immigration matters.
Yuu
Yuu Shibata is a founder member of paradiGM and i lawyer with a PhD in EU Law from the University of Bologna and has advised on Italian business immigration since 2018.
Specializing in Italy-Japan relations, Yuu supports corporate clients in navigating EU and Italian legal frameworks to ensure smooth immigration processes. She also contributes to publications on EU and Italian law, with a focus on immigration and business regulations.
Combining strong academic credentials with practical experience, Yuu provides strategic guidance tailored to corporate needs, bridging legal compliance and business objectives.
Sydney
Sydney Stewart leads community at WR Immigration, where she oversees engagement and thought leadership initiatives that connect immigration, mobility, and HR professionals. Through benchmarking, events, and collaborative discussions, she helps cultivate a community focused on sharing insights, solving challenges, and advancing workforce strategy.
Outside of work, Sydney enjoys gardening, reading, trying new recipes, and spending time with her two dogs. She is also an avid college football fan and can usually be found cheering on the Georgia Bulldogs in the fall.
Ken
Ken Nickel-Lane
Twenty plus years in senior global workforce mobility and immigration leadership roles. Founder and Managing Director of Nickel-Lane Immigration providing inbound support to global corporate clients and individuals. Previous roles include leading the Canadian operations of NewlandChase and AirEnergi, and earlier still the Alberta operations of Manpower Professional.
Avid outdoorsman, and family man with three teenage daughters for my sins.
Julyana
Julyana Ruiz is an immigration lawyer and proud dual Brazilian/Italian citizen. Julyana is the founder of iGo immigration services, a boutique firm based in São Paulo (Brazil) and Lisbon (Portugal), specializing in a range of global mobility services. Her primary focus is to serve corporate clients on their immigration and taxation requirements in both Brazil and Portugal.
She is passionate about sports, in particular, crossfit and she believes that discipline and mutual collaboration is the key to successful relationships.
Julyana has over 16 years’ experience in global mobility and truly believes in meaningful connections.
