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Overnite Express Story

The Presidents' Forum of Orange County
March 11, 2008

Rob Ukropina
Founder & CEO

Overnite Express

Speaker Biography:
In 1992, Rob founded Overnite Express with the idea of picking up after FedEx, UPS and DHL – 9pm – and delivering California, Arizona and Nevada early 9am the next morning. Overnite Express now employs over 300 associates and will deliver over two million packages in 2008.

Rob sits on various entrepreneurial advisory boards, including C2 Reprographics, Red Roller, Allyance Communications Networks, United Document Storage, Black Diamond Ventures, Eplayerz and the USC Entrepreneurial Center.

In 2004, Rob was awarded “Excellence in Entrepreneurship” by the Orange County Business Journal. In 2006, Rob was selected by Southland Development Corporation as “Small Business Person of the year” Orange County. In 2007, Rob was selected by the SBA as “Small Business Person of the Year – California”.

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