Gary Stonell, SVP of sales and operations at Toronto-based Opterus, has 20 years of sales management and business development experience in CPG and SaaS. Beginning his career in CPG, he worked for Kraft Foods, Philips Electronics and SunRype Products, fostering partnerships with retailers and managing various aspects of the sales and marketing processes. More recently, at Sysomos/Meltwater, a SaaS-based social media content management platform, Stonell led the enterprise sales team responsible for managing existing clients and new logo acquisition.