Hospitality management solutions Ideas Revenue Optimization appoints regional director of sales

2nd June 2010, 12:43pm

IDeaS Revenue Optimization, a provider of hospitality revenue management and optimization solutions, has appointed Rupert Gutteridge as regional director of sales, EMEA.

Gutteridge will replace former regional director Fabian Specht, who was promoted to the role of regional managing director, EMEA earlier this year. 

He will support the EMEA division in selling the IDeaS solutions into the EMEA markets and growing the business for IDeaS in this region. He will also maintain close relationships with industry partners, consultants and existing IDeaS clients. 

He commented: "I am very excited to be joining IDeaS Revenue Optimization, as it is a business with an outstanding pedigree and track record within the hotel industry. With the complimentary technologies now provided by SAS, this is a fantastic opportunity and I'm really looking forward to meeting the team and significantly contributing to the ongoing success of IDeaS in the EMEA region.

"IDeaS' Software as a Service deployment will add another dimension to my previous expertise within the hotel technology sector – a path no one can really escape going forward in technology as more and more is driven by SaaS developments and deployments."

Prior to joining IDeaS, Rutteridge was sales director - Central Systems, EMEA, for IDeaS partner organization, Micros Inc, where he has worked for the past 10 years, and prior to this he was with AremisSoft Corporation in both the UK and United States.

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