Avana Appoints New Chief Operating Officer.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000

Another high profile business executive has joined the senior ranks of Avana Communications.

Dennis P. Werner, former Senior Vice President and General Manager of American Express Corporate Services (NYSE: AXP), Southern Region, a division of AMEX's Travel Related Services, has been named Chief Operating Officer of Grace Development, Inc. (OTCBB: GCDV), doing business as Avana Communications, the Atlanta-based integrated communications provider.

Werner's appointment is effective immediately. He will be responsible for sales, regional operations and marketing, reporting to Ben Holcomb, chairman and CEO of Avana. As part of this planned move, Avana's president and COO, James Blanchard, relinquished the COO title and remains president of Avana, reporting to Holcomb.

"With the addition of Dennis Werner to our senior management team, Avana continues to assemble a team of proven executives to lead the company to the next stage of its development and beyond," Holcomb said. Holcomb recently joined Avana after a career with BellSouth Corporation (NYSE:BLS) where he was most recently president, Europe and Asia/Pacific for BellSouth International.

Werner, during his 24 years at American Express, moved steadily through a number of increasingly higher management positions in both Corporate Services and Consumer Travel. During his tenure at American Express in the Southern Region, the client base was expanded to over 2,000 client companies in a sixteen-state area and was regionally headquartered in Atlanta.

Werner obtained his bachelor of business administration degree as an honor graduate of the University of Kentucky and attended the Colgate Darden School of Management at the University of Virginia. Werner began his career at American Express in a variety of sales and management positions including as a member of the team responsible for the development and launch of Corporate Services, the market leader in travel management services today.

"I am looking forward to joining the Avana team where I believe that my management experience and my entrepreneurial skills can significantly contribute to the growth and performance of the Company," Werner commented.

About Avana Communications

Atlanta-based Grace Development, Inc. (OTCBB: GCDV), doing business as Avana Communications, is an integrated communications provider (ICP) offering a single-source solution for services traditionally offered by CLECs, IXCs, ISPs, ASPs and other data and communications providers. Avana provides value-based communications services within a one solution, one company, one account format.

The Avana corporate website is www.avanacorp.com. The WebWizard website creation and hosting technology owned by Avana can be viewed at www.webwizinc.com.

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