STS Hotel Net, LLC Appoints Ted Battreall as Vice President, Operations and Scott Schell as Vice President, Platform and Applications Engineering to Lead the Hospitality Portal's Deployment into Seven U.S. Cities

Battreall, with more than a decade of telecommunications and consulting expertise, will lead all business systems development and hotel deployment of the HotelNet.com Portal and all corporate systems, including customer service for the nation's top hoteliers and brands as the company rapidly adds to more than 110,000 rooms currently under contract.

Battreall's previous experience as director of sales and order-entry systems for Level (3) Communications LVLT will help propel the HotelNet Portal into tens of thousands of guest rooms beginning this fall and manage relationships with STS local merchants in seven STS Hotel Netä metropolitan regions. Previously, Battreall held senior positions with consulting firms Andersen Consulting and Cap Gemini America. Battreall holds a bachelor of arts degree in computer science and psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Scott Schell is responsible for leading the HotelNet.com Portal platform and applications engineering effort. Schell previously lead the emerging technologies team with CallConnect Communications, and the research and development efforts specializing in database design and web-based application conversion with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations LU and Storage Technology Corporation STK. Schell's track record will help create the technology driving the Portal as it debuts this fall. Schell's web-based architecture expertise is expected to help make the Hotel Net Portal more versatile and the preferred Portal for business travelers, whether they are staying in a hotel, working from the office, on the road or at home. Schell holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Colorado State and a master of science in telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

STS Hotel Netä provides online media and Internet applications for the traveler and the hospitality industry. The Portal provides guest specific content, local merchant information, communication services, and eCommerce applications. Hotel companies who want to expand their brand presence and guest relationships use the Hotel Net Portal to create a customized online guest experience.

The Hotel Net Portal is platform agnostic, meaning hotel guests can access HotelNet.com from a laptop, TV, PDA, or in-room PC, increasing the number of people who will access the service. STS believes that delivering a tasteful, rich online guest experience, regardless of how the guest connects, is the single most important decision a hotel will make with the Internet.

STS Hotel Netä customers include FelCor Lodging Trust, MeriStar Hotels and Resorts, MeriStar Hospitality Corporation, RFS Hotel Investors, and Sage Hospitality Resources, totaling approximately 110,000 Hotel Net guest rooms.