Pack Online, 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 Pack Online, 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 Systems has eight European subsidiaries and employs over 280 persons.

Richard Christner

Mr. Christner is C.O.O. of Pack Online, 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 e-commerce software provider

Before founding the 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 Unilever 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. Christner 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 supervised 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.