Gert Christen

Client Testimonials

Michelle Earney Schroeder, Professional Organizer and Evernote Certified Consultant

“Gert is the visionary every team desires in their leader. He approaches every challenge with analytical and creative determination, inspiring and encouraging his team with every direction. As our Director, Gert was the leader whose strategy we believed in, whose integrity we valued, and whose charisma made the job a more enjoyable adventure.”

John Forslund, Product Management | Strategy | Business Model Innovation

“Gert is a multi-faceted executive with limitless vision and a knowledge portfolio that is both deep and wide. I've had the pleasure to work with him for many years. He's leading with passion and empathy and is able to safely maneuver his ship through the roughest waters while motivating his crew to perform at their very best.”

Ross Blair, Counsel at IBM

“I worked Gert at Nokia for 3-5 years on various projects. Typically we were trying to either obtain content, establish a key relationship for the delivery of content or applications to our key carrier customers or set up a whole infrastructure system (Preminet, know now as Nokia Content Discoverer) for the procurement of content and SW applications for mobile devices from SW developers, the selection of content by carriers for their subscriber ecosystems and then the delivery and billing of subscribers and payment of royalties to the applicable developers. In all these projects I found Gert to be a fantastically successful business person and driver, both externally with develpers and carriers and internally in motivating staff and resources to achieve major goals and achievements. Gert is able to cut to the chase to understand key business and legal issues and navigate his way through them, all while motivating everyone around him to achieve goals on time or in advance of the required timeline. I wholeheartedly endorse Gert for any company looking for a great business person and leader.”

Markus Kaarto, Director, Head of Licensing at Teosto

“Gert is a very energetic, passionate, goal oriented, but very personal individual. He clearly understands what a win-win situation is, and thrives for it. Gert has the creative talent and intellectual horsepower to be a top-level performer in any organization. A person I would very strongly recommend either to hire, or to work together again. It was a pleasure working with Gert.”

Charbel Makhoul, Vice President Of Product Management at Inscape Data, Inc.

“Gert is an excellent colleague and manager with high sales skills and a clear business view. Always motivating. I recommand any company to work with Gert.”

Ronaldo de Miranda Louzada, Operations Manager Customer Services Technical Support Project Management PMO Electronic Engineer

“I had the utmost experience of working reporting to Gert for the ramping up of Mobile Internet Applications business for LATAM. It was very impressive his deep knowledge of the business operations, having to estabilish the project management and technical support organizations in the region, under a complex and multicultural scenarios. His strong and consistent driving, hardworking, and competence, at the same time supporting his team for achieving the best, certainly contributed for the successful implementation of the new organization and for the overall high performance at an individual and organizational levels.”

Joseph Low, Managing Principal at L2 Advisors

“Gert is an extremely knowledgeable, productive, and highly ethical individual who added greatly to Nokia's CDMA success stories in Latin America. He handles pressure well and treats all around him with respect. Gert is a true professional.”