Steve Liddell Named as CEO of Panther Express


NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- CDN Adds Depth and Breadth to Executive Suite

Continuing its aggressive expansion, global provider of high performance
content delivery services, Panther Express (http://www.pantherexpress.net),
today named Steve Liddell chief executive officer. Liddell's appointment
follows a number of important milestones for the two-year old CDN including
the recent announcement of Dennis Morgan as CFO earlier this month, its 300th
customer win in April and its acquisition of nearly US$16 million in venture
funding in November, 2007.

"Steve's extensive background in telecommunications will be very valuable
for Panther Express," said Kevin Ryan, Chairman and cofounder of Panther
Express. "He has a well-established reputation as a strategic thinker and has
successfully scaled a number of early stage businesses. His considerable
experience building sizeable international businesses will help Panther
advance to the next level of its development and galvanize its position as a
formidable contender in content delivery."

"Founded by entrepreneurs with direct experience in this sector, Panther
Express is rapidly growing," said Steve Liddell. "The company is well-funded
and backed by two of the most reputable Venture Capital firms in the Software
and IT industry. Panther has built its own, unique technology platform which
makes it the first choice for companies who want a high performance, reliable
CDN service. Fueled by the exploding demand for video, HD and other
multimedia content delivered over the Internet, our goal is to establish
Panther Express as an industry leader in this very exciting and high growth
market."

Steve Liddell is highly skilled in all aspects of growing and operating
international telecommunications businesses. He was most recently an
independent consultant advising two of the leading private equity firms,
Columbia Capital and MC Venture Partners on their recent acquisition of GTS
-- an eastern European telecommunications operator. Prior to this, he was COO
of Clearwire International, where he was responsible for the international
operations of this early stage WiMAX operator.

From 1999-2005, Liddell worked at Level 3 Communications, first as
President of Asia based in Hong Kong, and later as a Group Vice President in
Broomfield, Colorado. There he established successful segmentation and
positioning strategies in key growth areas and played an integral role in a
number of major strategic customer wins.

Earlier in his career, Liddell served as President of MCI-WorldCom
Asia-Pacific also based in Hong Kong. As the division's first employee,
he secured a unique set of licenses and built an extensive
infrastructure-based business covering 8 countries across the region. Prior
to this he was responsible for the international voice and data business of
MFS, based in Northern Virginia.

Liddell began his telecommunications career at British Telecom where from
1989 to 1994, both in London, England and Atlanta, Georgia, he held a number
of business development and strategic roles, mainly focused on international
M&A activities.

Liddell holds an MBA in Business Administration from Henley Management
College, an M.Sc. in Semiconductor Electronics and a B.Sc. in Physics from
Bristol University, in the United Kingdom.

About Panther Express

Panther Express Corp. is the industry's best value CDN solution -- a
high-performance content delivery network (CDN) with an innovative
low-cost infrastructure. Founded in 2005 by former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan
and DoubleClick Co-founder and former CTO Dwight Merriman, Panther Express
ensures rapid, reliable and scalable performance to gaming, video,
e-commerce, webhosting, news, blogs and Web 2.0 Internet sites worldwide.
Panther Express is privately held and based in New York. Panther Express has
over two years of experience in content delivery with over 300 customers
using our solutions every day. www.pantherexpress.net

For more information contact Panther Express at 40 West 20th Street, New
York, New York 10011

Contact:
    Judy Baliman, Panther Express
    jbaliman@pantherexpress.net
    +1-646-747-0941

Web site: http://www.pantherexpress.net

© PR Newswire Association LLC.

Latest user comments

News archive

Subscribe to AfterDawn's weekly newsletter.