Gerstman Group hires director of e-commerce sales

Garden City, N.Y. Garden City, N.Y.-based Gerstman Group hired Steve White as director of e-commerce sales. In his new post, White will be responsible for driving the sales of products from manufacturers represented by Gerstman Group, a retail sales and service firm, into the dot-com channel.

According to Gerstman, electronic commerce represented a $135 billion marketplace in 2009.

White most recently ran his own e-commerce sales agency, representing manufacturers in the home channel industry to both Internet-only and brick-and-mortar retailer websites. Prior to establishing his agency, he was president and partner for over 18 years at Triple-S Marketing Group, a company that provided sales and service to national and regional home center retailers.