Drawing on almost 20 years of experience, Nathalie Stonier serves as International Marketing Systems, Ltd.’s director of global sourcing and marketing. With the Shelton, Connecticut-based firm, which she joined in 2006, Nathalie Stonier looks for and capitalizes on opportunities to increase revenue while also reducing costs wherever possible. In the role, she is responsible for conducting market research projects, building new supply chains, and revamping existing ones, among other duties.

She has also been involved in philanthropic pursuits, from donating to local charities and helping out at her children’s school to volunteering at local non-profit organizations such as Soroptimist International, Gbapp Inc, Al's Angels, and Malta House. In her leisure time, she enjoys the outdoors, traveling, and attending musicals or plays.

Before starting her career, Ms. Stonier attended the Maison d'Education de la Legion d'Honneur, from which she graduated with an AS in international business in 1998. She went on to study at the Chambre de Commerce de Paris and Universite Paris 8 to earn a BS in the field. She also holds two MBAs, one in international business that she earned in France, and the other, acquired in the U.S.A., in marketing management. While pursuing her degree, she published a thesis, in 2001, titled “An instance of the trade between the United States and Latin America applied to the playground industry.”