Glenn R. Kruse and James E. Banks will head the sales division, with Kruse serving as senior vice president of national sales and Banks as vice president. 

Since its debut in January, hsupply.com has signed on management companies and franchisors representing more than 600 hotel properties nationwide. The company�s e-procurement solution provides each property manager a branded, easy-to-use, Internet-based marketplace to order the supplies needed for daily operations.  hsupply.com manages the entire supply chain, integrating the movement of goods and information, while providing seamless transactions with full customer service support.

�In less than two months, our business has surged tremendously,� said Larry Hall, president and chief operating officer of hsupply.com. �In response to the industry demand, we�ve stepped up the development of our national sales organization and found two of the best and brightest sales professionals with extensive experience in both technology and hospitality. Glenn and Jim will help us develop our budding industry relationships and expand the reach of our services.�

As senior vice president of national sales, Kruse will be responsible for establishing and directing a sales program to introduce hsupply.com to hotel management companies and franchisors. Kruse brings more than 20 years of sales and marketing management experience to hsupply.com, including several years in the hospitality industry. Kruse last served as a consultant and vice president of sales and marketing with MobileStar Network, a Richardson, Texas- based company that provides high-speed, wireless data services to hotels and airports. Kruse has also worked with wireless communications companies including UniSite Inc., Sprint Corp. and Andrew Corp. 

�I was impressed with the seasoned management team behind hsupply.com, a young company that is growing quickly and successfully,� Kruse said. �I was eager to join hsupply.com because we can deliver on our promise of simplifying hospitality supplies procurement. I look forward to initiating programs that demonstrate how comprehensive hsupply.com�s services are and the value they bring to a hotel company�s business operations.� 

As vice president of national sales, Banks will assist and support Kruse�s efforts as well as form and direct a national sales force for hsupply.com. Banks, who has worked more than 17 years in sales, operations and business development, has extensive experience in the hospitality industry. Prior to joining hsupply.com, he served as director of national accounts with Telerent Corp., a Raleigh, N.C.-based national provider of furniture, fixtures and equipment products to the hospitality and healthcare industries. Banks has also served as a national sales manager for the Jackson Group, vice president of sales and customer service for Strategic Telecom, senior vice president for Cable Healthcare and vice president of operations for Spectravision Inc.  

�It�s nice to enter a sales position when you have a great product to sell. hsupply.com has the added advantage of superior service,� Banks said. �The company blends sophisticated technology with the human touch, an element that�s missing from a lot of so-called �end-to end� solutions. I�m excited to join a group of top-notch people who know technology, the hospitality industry and the plain old-fashioned concept of service.�

About hsupply.com

hsupply.com is a leading B2B e-services company that is reinventing procurement for the $16 billion hospitality supplies industry.  Its unique Next.0� approach integrates the power of the Internet, customer relationship management and comprehensive supply chain management into a seamless, one-source destination site�the hsupply.com Marketplace.  Designed to meet the disparate needs of hotel supply buyers, franchisors and suppliers, the hsupply.com Marketplace facilitates the entire procurement process from search to settlement.

Among hsupply.com�s differentiators is its development of custom marketplaces for management companies and franchisors to help ensure that the quality standards that maintain brand image are consistently met. The marketplaces manage purchase order and invoice approval routing and control transactions between buyers from multiple hotel brands and suppliers with different contractual agreements.  The Atlanta-based company was founded in 1999 by e-commerce expert and best-selling author Dr. Ravi Kalakota and boasts an executive management team with more than more than 100 years of combined hospitality and technology industry experience.