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  Hersha Hospitality Management Names Jeffrey Wade
Vice President of Human Resources 
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., April 3, 2006�Hersha Hospitality Management, a hotel management company of nationally franchised, midscale and upscale hotels in the eastern United States, today announced that Jeffrey A. Wade has been named vice president of human resources.  All of the company�s HR functions at the corporate and property levels will be under his leadership, including training, recruitment, compensation and benefits compliance and employee relations. 

�Jeffrey brings to Hersha Hospitality Management a wealth of HR and strategic development experience,� said Naveen Kakarla, Hersha Hospitality Management vice president of administration.  �He is a senior HR professional with 20 years of experience in the hospitality industry, which will serve the company well in executing our strategies and plans for growth.�

Wade spent the past five years with Ivy Planning Group, a full-service management consulting and training firm based in Rockville, Md., where he provided strategic and HR leadership development for such Fortune 100 companies and government agencies as Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, Marriott International, Hilton Hotels, Harrah�s Entertainment, Nike, MetLife, JP Morgan Chase and the U.S. Justice and Labor offices.

Prior to that, Wade spent more than 10 years with MeriStar Hotels and Resorts in human resources.  As senior director of human resources for MeriStar�s Inns Division, he was responsible for all HR services provided to the company�s 8,000 associates.  He also developed a number of HR systems in partnership with the operations team that helped the company achieve performance objectives.  He led a number of company-wide initiatives, including the creation of talent development systems, associate assessments, leadership development programs and organizational design/effectiveness strategies.

Wade holds a BA in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina.  He is also a member of the Society for Human Resources Management and is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). 

Hersha Hospitality Management is a hotel management company providing operations and development services to upscale and mid-scale hotels with strong, national franchise affiliations in the eastern United States.  The company currently provides hotel management services and asset management services to more than 50 hotels in the top markets in the nation, including metro Boston, Connecticut, New York City, New Jersey, Philadelphia, metro Washington D.C., and Atlanta.  For more information, please visit www.hershahotels.com.

Certain matters within this press release are discussed using forward-looking language as specified in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and, as such, may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results or performance to differ from those projected in the forward-looking statement.

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Contact:

Hersha Hospitality Management 
www.hershahotels.com
 

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Also See: Housed in a Newly Constructed Nine-story Building, Hersha Hospitality Opens 65 room Hampton Inn Manhattan/Seaport / March 2006
Naveen P. Kakarla Named Vice President with Hersha Hospitality Management, Overseeing Finance, IT, Human Resources / December 2005

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