Decatur, AL - November 10, 2008 - The Tennessee Valley Corridor, Inc. (TVC) has named Tom Counts, President of Decatur, Ala. based 3-GIS to its Board of Directors. Counts was appointed to represent Congressman Robert Aderholt and Alabama's Fourth Congressional District on the TVC Board. 

Tom Counts has over 25 years of experience and education in product development, project management, and organizational operations management. As President and Chief Executive Officer of 3-GIS, a premiere Systems Integrator for Automated Mapping and Facilities' Management needs, Counts has helped create and launch the company from its first day of inception and is responsible for all aspects of the organization with a focus on sales, marketing, and channel development. Since launching the company in 2006, 3-GIS has grown to 25 employees with over 25 different GIS-involved customers ranging from emergency response to electric transmission to telecom services.

"I am very excited to join the Tennessee Valley Corridor," said Counts. "I look forward to working with other board members to invigorate our communities with high-tech industrial opportunities."

"We are so fortunate to have Tom joining our Corridor Board of Directors," said Tom Rogers, Chairman of the Tennessee Valley Corridor Board of Directors. "He brings strong leadership and expertise to the board and his knowledge and experience will only help us continue to advance the reputation of the Tennessee Valley Corridor as one of the nation's premier science and technology regions."

About Tennessee Valley Corridor

The Tennessee Valley Corridor (TVC) is a multi-state regional economic development organization dedicated to promoting the Tennessee Valley Corridor as one of the nation's premier science and technology centers, and to leveraging the Valley's abundant research and technology assets and institutions for maximum regional economic development and new job creation. Building on such regional assets as NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, the U.S. Army's Redstone Arsenal, the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center, the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the National Transportation Research Center, the Center for Rural Development, the National Safe Skies Alliance, several world-class research universities and dozens of corporate leaders in science and technology, the Tennessee Valley Corridor organization has helped showcase the region's superior quality of life and the people, business, natural and scientific resources needed for high-tech research, development, business and investment in the 21st Century.



For more information on the Tennessee Valley Corridor, please visit www.tennvalleycorridor.org

About 3-GIS

3-GIS is a premier AM/FM/GIS software development and services company. The company provides customized software and solutions to a variety of companies in markets such as Utilities, Communications and Homeland Security. The company builds, interfaces, and integrates many diverse AM/FM systems, work management systems, analysis packages, and other specialized software companies use. 3-GIS is now delivering an ArcGIS Server-based suite of thin-client asset management products. For more information, visit www.3-GIS.com.