Gary Turac

Gary Turac is the Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships and Accounts at RouteOne. Gary has over 25 years of experience in sales and marketing, having held leadership positions at both the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and Autolinq Internet Services (Auto123.com), which they co-founded.

Gary has a proven track record in developing successful online business models and executing e-marketing strategies to achieve revenue targets. Gary is an expert in developing and implementing promotional tools to support sales activities, and has extensive experience preparing budgets, monthly projections and establishing measurements and controls.

At IATA, Gary was responsible for all of the organization's online sales and marketing initiatives. Gary successfully developed online business models for new and existing IATA products and services, and executed e-marketing strategies for several products to achieve revenue targets. Gary also designed and implemented promotional tools to support sales activities, and prepared the annual budget, monthly projections and established measurements and controls to ensure attainment of objectives.

At Autolinq Internet Services, Gary was responsible for setting the company's business-level strategy, as well as its functional level-strategies for sales and marketing, customer service, etc. Gary also negotiated strategic alliances and partnerships in the automotive industry, as well as with internet media companies, and managed relationships in both industries. Under their leadership, Autolinq became the first company to sell ads online in the automotive space in Canada! Gary was also responsible for constantly developing new products with the IT team.

Gary Turac has a BComm in Marketing from Concordia University and a degree in Pure and Applied Sciences from CEGEP - John Abbott College.

Gary Turac reports to Justin Oesterle, CEO. Gary Turac works with Jenna Wolfe - Director, Customer Solutions, Angelo Simone - Senior Director, National Sales, and Chris Irving - Chief Information Officer.