Emmanuel Gonon
CEO, CTO, and Founder

An authentic visionary entrepreneur, E. Gonon leads strategy and day to day operations at Oslo Software. Before founding Oslo, he was an Investment Buyer with BSN Glasspack. Subsequently, he took part in the development of the Renault Hungary subsidiary and became the data-processing project leader for Central European countries.

He graduated from Arts et Métiers as an engineer, and is a graduate of the Lyon Management School (Master's Degree in Technology and Innovation Management).

Dominique Butel
President and COO

Dominique brings more than 20 years of experience in sales, marketing and business development. Prior to joining Oslo he served as Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Open Country, where he successfully expanded the company’s worldwide sales channel. Prior to Open Country he was vice president of corporate sales at Agentis Software where he grew revenue from zero to $8 million in just two years. He was also worldwide director of corporate business development at Ascential, and was responsible for closing eight key OEMs and reseller agreements, including Business Objects, Hyperion, HP, Sun Microsystems and Siebel.

Dominique holds a master's degree in information technology from CENORI - ESCAE Le Havre-France and a BA in economics from Rouen University, France.

Christian Poullain
Vice President, Sales - Europe and co-Founder

C. Poullain is responsible for Oslo's Business Development with the objective of providing support for its growth in territories, market segments and target channels. He has more than 25 years of experience in data-processing.

In 2001, he created ASPEN-ONE, a consulting company working in secure infrastructures (1,500,000 €, 10 persons). Until 1999, he exercised the duties of Account Manager, Sales Manager, and then Agency Manager (90,000,000 €, 140 persons) at Digital. He became Marketing Manager of the Southern Europe Service and Solution division at AMDHAL before joining the American operator VIATEL in 2000 as the Sales & Marketing Manager for France.

He has a D.E.S.S. diploma in international marketing.

Roger Phillip
Vice President of Worldwide Marketing

Roger has been a strategic resource in building numerous technology companies from concept to multi-million dollar businesses through organic growth and M&A. He is accomplished in all aspects of corporate marketing, channel marketing, and product marketing and product management. Roger has extensive experience creating, executing, and managing corporate and product image and messaging, cross-functional campaign and product launches, customer acquisition and retention programs, and product packaging, pricing and delivery strategies.

Roger has a degree in Bio-Medical and Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University.

Denis Thoral
Chief Financial Officer

Denis brings 12 years of experience to Oslo in structuring and managing financial services for small and mid-sized companies. He started his career with COOPERS & LYBRAND as an associate in their audit services practice. Denis has held financial management positions with ATARI, IDS France, ADGEST.

Denis graduated from Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper school of business) in 1995 with a MBA (Finance and Information Systems). Prior to that Denis graduated in 1992 from the University of Hartford (CT) with a BSBA (Economics and Finance).

James J. Odell
Chief Technology Strategist

James J. Odell serves as the Chief Technology Strategist for Oslo Software. With more than 37 years in the IT industry, Odell will focus on the company’s technology vision to ensure customer and Partner success through the development of industry-leading dynamic resource allocation and management technology. Mr. Odell will be responsible for the advancement of Oslo Software's product and technology leadership in standards organizations. Additionally, he will focus on elevating the company's vision and influence in the Business Process Management market.

Mr. Odell has been a consultant, writer, and educator in the areas of object-oriented and agent-based systems, methodology, business modeling, ontology, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). He has been the chair of the OMG's Analysis and Design Task Force for ten years and has participated in the development of the UML 1.0 and UML 2.0 Standards. He is the acting chair of the OMG's SOA Task Force, The Open Group's Adaptive Business Solutions group, and the IEEE FIPA standards committee. He has authored and edited many books on object orientation as well as agent-oriented software engineering.