The Panther Express management team brings together technology and media industry executives with a broad range of experience.
| Kevin Ryan Co-founder and Chairman |
Dwight Merriman Co-founder and Chairman |
| Philip Grieshaber CTO |
Aaron Mittman Vice President, Sales and Marketing |
| Gad Stanislas Vice President, International |
Kevin P. Ryan — Chairman and Co-Founder
Kevin is one of the most accomplished and well known Internet entrepreneurs in New York City, having been involved with numerous success stories. From 1996-2005, first as President and later CEO, he helped build DoubleClick from a startup of 20 people to a very profitable global leader with over 1500 employees. During his tenure, Silicon Alley Reporter named DoubleClick "New York Company of the year" and he was named one of Crain's' "50 Most Influential Business People". DoubleClick was sold in 2005 for $1.1 billion to Hellman and Friedman. Kevin was also an early investor and board member of HotJobs, which was sold to Yahoo for $450 million in 2002. Prior to DoubleClick, he worked at United Media, Euro Disney and Prudential Investment Corp, in senior operational or financial roles.
Kevin is also Chairman and Co-Founder of the shopping search engine ShopWiki. In addition, he is on the board of Human Rights Watch, the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders, and a member of the Insead International Council, Yale International Council and the Council of Foreign Relations. He has served in the past on the boards of the Direct Marketing Association, the AdCouncil and NYC 2012.
Kevin has a BA from Yale and an MBA from INSEAD. He draws on his international experience including 14 years living in Paris, Geneva, London and Rome.
Dwight Merriman — Chairman and Co-Founder
Dwight Merriman is the Chairman of Panther Express. Prior to founding Panther Express, Dwight was Co-Founder of DoubleClick and served as DoubleClick's Chief Technology Officer for approximately ten years. He is also Chairman and Co-Founder of ShopWiki.
Dwight was architect of the DoubleClick ad serving infrastructure known as DART, which serves billions of ads per day on many of the largest sites on the Internet.
Previously, Dwight served as a software developer in the R&D group at DCA/Attachmate in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his bachelors of science degree with honors in systems analysis from Miami University of Ohio.
Philip Grieshaber — CTO
Philip Grieshaber is the Chief Technology Officer of Panther Express. He brings twenty years of full life cycle software development and operational expertise focusing on system performance and reliability. His responsibilities are ensuring that the architecture and technology at Panther Express are designed to be high performance, fault tolerant, scalable and cost effective
Philip comes to Panther Express from DoubleClick, where he most recently served as Technical Architect for DoubleClick's DART ad serving infrastructure, which processes billions of ad transactions daily.
Aaron Mittman — Vice President, Sales and Marketing
Aaron joins Panther Express from Comerxia where he was SVP Global Sales for their international commerce enabling solutions.
Prior to Comerxia Aaron spent over four years with DoubleClick, where he most recently served as the VP of Global Technology Solutions. He brings over twenty years of experience in enabling revenue generation of technology solutions and serving as a leader at the forefront of highly successful Internet advertising and marketing technology offerings.
While with DoubleClick, Aaron led US sales and account management for their industry leading $120 million annual DART ASP and Enterprise businesses.
Aaron came to DoubleClick from their acquisition of NetGravity where he was a Director responsible for sales, account management, sales engineering, and channel efforts. Under Aaron's leadership, his team grew the business from an annual run rate of $1mm to over $9MM by adding more than 75 new accounts.
Prior to NetGravity, Aaron worked in various sales and sales management positions with industry leading enterprise software companies including OnLine Software International, Computer Associates, and Platinum Technology.
Gad Stanislas — Vice President, International
Based in Paris, Gad is responsible for all international operations and sales. He brings significant experience to the position, having spent seven years at DoubleClick in a variety of positions in operations, sales and most recently as VP International Operations. In this position he was responsible for the international technical infrastructure. Prior to DoubleClick, Gad worked at the Internet service provider EUNet France. He graduated from the Institut Superieur de Gestion in France with semesters studying in Japan, England and the US.
