PackOnline, Inc. was founded in 1998 by two top-level Internet technical architects with a combined total of twenty years of experience in the Client/Server and Internet development tool industry.
Christophe A. Gissinger
Mr. Gissinger is President/C.E.O. and founder of PackOnline, Inc.
Mr. Gissinger has over eighteen years' experience in the software development
tools for large organizations, with an exclusive knowledge of the design and
development of comprehensive suite of technical tools suited to build, deploy
and maintain enterprise scale software projects. Mr. Gissinger has been directly involved
in the implementation of major strategic European software projects in
the insurance (AGF, AXA, MAAF) and health industry (CNAM, various CHU)
arena as well as for banking (Credit Lyonnais, Dressner Bank) and telecommunication
field (France Telecom). More recently, Mr. Gissinger has led the expansion of
this technology to the Internet field to help large organizations produce
and maintain heavy duty online production applications leveraging their
existing legacy systems.
Previously, Mr. Gissinger was co-founder and Executive Vice-President of
Nat Systems a leading provider of Internet and Client/Server
development tools in the European market. Nat Systems provides
enterprise software development tools to over half of the Global
500 companies in Europe including France Telecom, Credit Lyonnais, AGF,
Telefonica. Nat Systems also directly participated in the development of several major
Microsoft development tools including Visual C++ a leading Microsoft
language and development tool in the last years.
Nat System has eight European subsidiaries and employs over 280 persons.
Richard Christner
Mr. Christner is C.O.O. of PackOnline, Inc.
Mr. Christner brings to PackOnline a broad experience in building internet
infrastructure and e-commerce businesses, including business strategy, operations planning,
marketing strategy, and business development.
Prior to joining PackOnline, Mr. Christner was Vice President at Mercer Management Consulting,
a leading strategy consulting firm, where he founded Mercer's internet and eCommerce strategy
practice.
In this role, Mr Christner worked with both large traditional companies to define and
launch their internet businesses, and with start-up firms to move more quickly toward
profitable, winning business models. His clients included:
One of the largest U.S. hotel and hospitality chains
A leading publicly-owned B-to-B marketplace operator
A health care portal targeting the physicians market
A $1.5B trucking company
The fourth largest consumer ISP
A B-to-B software provider
Before founding his role in internet and eCommerce at Mercer, Mr. Christner was a partner
in Mercer's Communication, Information, and Entertainment practice.
He has worked with some of the largest providers of internet services and networking
equipment.
Mr. Christner has also held a position as a design and construction engineer
with National Starch and Chemicals, a subsidiary of Unliver P.L.C.
Mr. Christner holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania, graduating with Highest Honors.
He received his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University,
Magna Cum Laude, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr Chistner has been a frequent speaker on internet and eCommerce,
and has been frequently quoted in the business press.
He has authored and co-authored a number of articles,
including On Again - Off Again about hybrid online-offline business models recently
appearing in The Industry Standard.
Thomas Nokin
Mr. Thomas Nokin is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of PackOnline, Inc.
A technical guru, Thomas Nokin is an expert on the major information technologies and paradigm that emerged in the last 10 years, and their applications to large scale business and software.
Over the past years, Mr Nokin was Nat Systems Technical Manager and project leader for NatWeb, the leading Nat Systems Internet development tool in Europe for large organizations. Natweb was designed to enable large organizations to easily design and implement complex, robust, reliable and secure business software running over the Internet. NatWeb integrated Java, ActiveX and HTML in one simple to use development environment. Previously he was in charge of the data modelisation tools, database access and client server integration at Nat Systems.
As a consultant for Nat Systems, Mr. Thomas Nokin has worked on various assignments in Europe and the United States including the major French bank Credit du Nord and the American insurance company The Equitable where he supervized the successful usage of Nat Systems tools.
He is a graduate from two of France's most renowned educational institutions - Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées.
Dean L. Wilde
Mr.Dean L. Wilde is Member of the Board of Directors of PackOnline, Inc.
Mr. Wilde is Chairman and founder of Dean & Company. Previously, Mr. Wilde was an Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning Associates (SPA) and a member of its governing Policy Committee, and a Director at Mercer Management Consulting after Mercer acquired SPA in 1990. Mr. Wilde founded and ran SPA's Telecommunication and Technology practice and was responsible for major assignments in London, where he resided for a number of years, and in the U.S. At Mercer, Mr. Wilde again headed the combined firm's worldwide Communication and Computing practice.
Mr. Wilde has over eighteen years' experience in consulting to large companies and institutions on strategic, organizational, and operational topics, including restructuring costs, competitive and market positioning, and industry analysis. Mr. Wilde has extensive industry experience in the telecommunications sector, including telephony, cable, wireless, data communications, multi-media, software and hardware, and extensive issues-based expertise in the area, including benchmarking, product development, operational restructuring, customer targeting and retention, and turnarounds.
Over the past several years, Mr. Wilde has worked on a number of assignments for various businesses including the Local Exchange Carriers, Interexchange Carriers, PTTs, manufacturing and software. He has worked in North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Wilde's work with organizations has focused on generating very tangible results: for example in a recent project he directed a benchmarking and a reengineering effort to reduce costs; a pricing strategy to improve margins; and a business extension to enhance growth - business profitability improved over $600 million per year.
Mr. Wilde is a visiting professor of strategy at the MIT/Sloan School of Management and is the co-auther of a book on business strategy, The Delta Model, which looks at the drivers of business profitability, and provides a framework for management decision making.
Mr. Wilde holds degrees from Iowa State University in physics where he graduated as Top Scholar, and from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Masters of Science in Management.