Charlie Kruse has had a long and successful career in business development, sales, marketing, promotions, and event management. In 1996, they began as Corporate Sales Manager at the Minnesota Timberwolves, where they negotiated major corporate sponsorships and created the first Timberwolves playoff promotion with ABC/Disney. In 1999, they founded and became CEO of C. Kruse & Associates, Inc., where they built and managed a platform for school fundraising utilized by independent sales reps all over the country and Canada. In 2009, they founded and became President of PrepAthlete.com (a.k.a. Nationalpreps.com), which revolutionized the college recruiting market with their SAAS model. In 2017, they founded and became CEO of Inspire.world, creating a NO COST, NO WORK virtual fundraising platform to revolutionize the way Non-Profits, Schools, Churches and Youth Sports fundraise. Charlie designed the platform and contracted with organizations tied to millions of youth sports athletes, over 300,000 churches, and hundreds of non-profits.
Charlie Kruse attended the University of Notre Dame.
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