News from Aug 01, 2008

Panther Express Names Mark King as Vice President, Sales and Marketing

CDN attracts Senior Leader to Executive Team

New York, NY – (August 1, 2008) – Panther Express, (www.pantherexpress.net) a leading global provider of high-performance content delivery services, today announced that Mark King has been named as Vice President, Sales & Marketing with full responsibility for those functions in the United States.

With more than 20 years experience in the IT and telecommunications industries, Mark King was most recently Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at TruWave Networks, where he was responsible for the development and implementation of the company's marketing strategy, as well as overseeing sales operations for the company's voice, data and high-speed Internet access services. Prior to joining TruWave Networks, Mark was Senior Vice President of Sales for more than five years at Level 3 Communications where he was responsible for leading the content and service providers channel on a national basis for customers in the tier one ISP segment, tier one cable operators, content, satellite and national VoIP providers.

During his first two-and-a-half years at Level 3 Communications, Mark was in charge of the entire national Wholesale Carrier Channel Communications and drove the transformation of the Level 3 sales organization. This included the implementation of CRM, market segmentation and development of programs to increase sales effectiveness in the field. Before Level 3 Communications, Mark was with IBM Corporation - serving eight years as an expatriate in Europe, the Middle East and Africa before returning to the United States.

“Combining outstanding performance and professionalism, Panther Express is poised to be the world’s leading CDN solution. Mark will help us achieve that next step,” said Steve Liddell, CEO of Panther Express. “It is a tremendous credit to Panther Express that we are able to attract a sales leader of Mark's caliber and experience – he will be a tremendous asset as we continue to build a first class sales organization to serve the needs of our customers.”

“The CDN market is ever changing,” said Mark King. “I want to realign and design the sales organization around the key success factors for the Panther CDN business.”

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