MEMPHIS, TN - Plan Express, Inc. announces and welcomes Antony Francis to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer.

Francis takes root in the company's headquarter office here in mid-February, and will be relocating with his wife from Atlanta.

Francis brings to Plan Express an executive portfolio that shows vast experience in running companies successfully. Most recently he has been instrumental in turning around customer operations for NewRoads, Inc., a provider of outsourced catalog and e-commerce order management and fulfillment.

Prior to that, he held executive positions at MRM Fulfillment (Raleigh, NC) as interim CEO/COO and at Perkin Elmer, Inc., (www.perkinelmer.com; NYSE: PKI) as Vice President, Global Customer Operations. He did this after a threeyear stint at SciQuest.Com (Raleigh, NC), where he set up all operational units (from green-field to fully scaled operations) as Vice President-Global Operations. His leadership at SciQuest.Com took the company from start-up to a 400 employee base.

Francis began his career at Ernst & Young in London and Paris and joined Federal Express Corporation (www.fedex.com; NYSE: FDX) in Paris in 1988. During his 12 years at FedEx, he worked as European Controller and as a Managing Director in the Finance Division in Memphis, before returning to Europe as Vice President of FedEx's e-Commerce and Logistics business in Europe, Middle East and Africa where he directed the strategic and operational development of that division.

Francis is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of the Institute of Transport and Logistics and a Member of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals. He participates actively in the Global Supply Chain Management Advisory Board at the Kenan Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a Member of the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) in Atlanta. He speaks regularly on e-commerce and supply chain issues at conferences and universities. Mr. Francis will rejoin the Board of Opera Memphis where he served from 1992 to 1994.

On the nomination of Francis to President/COO of Plan Express, Founder and CEO DeWayne Adamson says, "We have reached a point in our growth where Antony's type of experience is required for Plan Express to succeed, and to continue to push the company to new heights."

Founded in 1994, Plan Express is the fastest growing provider of late night logistical and automated logistical systems and leading provider of construction documents, offering a complete solution for construction document management, printing and delivery of plans. Plan Express maintains its headquarters near FedEx's "super-hub" in Memphis, TN and has regional facilities near other major US and European shipping hubs. Plan Express has partnerships and distribution relationships with major construction content and tools providers including Dodge-McGraw Hill Construction, iSqFt, Onvia, Blue Book, CMD Reed Construction and Primavera.

With a recent $5 million equity investment (led by SSM Ventures and Frontier Capital), major new partnerships with The Reprographic Services Association and Meridian Project Systems, and the opening of several new offices in Chicago, Nashville and Tempe, and several European initiatives underway, Plan Express is experiencing dramatic and unprecedented growth.

For more information about Plan Express and its services, visit www.planexpress.net or call 901-843-2142.