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Five-S Technology, LLC

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Five-S Technology, LLC

OEM Capital assisted Five-S Technology LLC in identifying an experienced financial partner to form and build a platform of IT solutions providers and managed services firms. Five-Sís founder is a successful and proven entrepreneur with over 25 yearsí experience creating, building and monetizing investments in technology related industries. OEM Capital assisted him in partnering with Navigation Capital Partners (NCP), an Atlanta-based private equity firm with a targeted focus on acquiring and integrating IT solutions providers and managed services firms in a platform company, Stratos Management Systems, Inc.

As a result of OEMís involvement, our client was able to partner with an experienced investment firm to build an IT services platform. NCP is an Atlanta-based private equity firm making control growth and buyout investments of $10 million to $30 million in lower middle market niche business services companies, with particular emphasis in sectors where it has deep investment experience.

OEM Capital is a technology investment banking firm offering corporate finance advisory services to both public and private electronics, communications, software, and information technology companies. Services offered include mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of debt and equity, including PIPEs, strategic advisory, recapitalizations and restructurings, and financial opinions.

OEM Capital’s professionals have extensive experience in the industries they cover. As a founding member of the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors (AICA), OEM Capital provides its clients with access to transactions on a global scale, in every major technology market in the world.

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Nexus Information Systems

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Nexus Information Systems

Stratos Management Systems, Inc. completed its first acquisition, the business of First Byte Computers, Inc. d/b/a Nexus Information Systems.

Nexus, headquartered in the Minneapolis/St.Paul area, is a leading IT provider of data center solutions and managed services, specializing in network design and support, virtualization of desktops and servers (either colocation or hosted), back-up and recovery, wireless LANs, enterprise security, data management and enterprise management. Nexus serves a variety of industries including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Technology, Municipalities, Educational Facilities and Commercial Establishments.

As a result of OEMís involvement, our client partnered with an experienced investment firm to build an IT services platform and successfully acquire Nexus. NCP is an Atlanta-based private equity firm making control growth and buyout investments of $10 million to $30 million in lower middle market niche business services companies, with particular emphasis in sectors where it has deep investment experience.

OEM Capital is a technology investment banking firm offering corporate finance advisory services to both public and private electronics, communications, software, and information technology companies. Services offered include mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of debt and equity, including PIPEs, strategic advisory, recapitalizations and restructurings, and financial opinions.

OEM Capital’s professionals have extensive experience in the industries they cover. As a founding member of the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors (AICA), OEM Capital provides its clients with access to transactions on a global scale, in every major technology market in the world.

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ROIS, Inc.

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ROIS, Inc.

ROIS, Inc., a seven year old, privately held marketing services provider creates solutions to increase purchases of highly profitable add-on services for retailers. Its services include campaign creation, materials sourcing, package design, product delivery, transactional support, web enabled post-transaction customer service and reconciliation. Every program is custom tailored to meet the needs of each customer and type of retail transaction targeted.

RE Investments, L.P., a private equity firm based in the Southwestern US specializes in middle market acquisitions and investments. The firm typically invests in US companies engaged in the service, distribution, manufacturing, staffing, financial, and consumer product sectors.

C.V. Lemmon & Co. Inc., a member of the International Mergers and Acquisition Partners (IMAP) partnered with OEM Capital to assist ROIS in managing the sale of its business. The shareholders required a purchaser with the financial resources to make the acquisition and still support an aggressive expansion program to pre-empt competitive inroads. Key to a successful outcome was finding a buyer willing to structure a transaction that allowed the sellers maximum value and to rollover part of the sale proceeds with an equity ownership in the new entity.

OEM Capital and C.V. Lemmon & Co. Inc. worked closely with management to prepare marketing materials while developing a program that maintained strict confidentiality of even the identity of the client while eliciting interest from both strategic and financial buyers. Using industry and financial contacts and our network of international affiliates, our marketing program developed a number of interested parties. Each potential suitor was reviewed with the seller and several were selected to meet with management for a detailed business presentation.

Our program secured multiple bids from highly regarded, financially solid firms. The seller accepted and closed on an offer with an approximate enterprise value of US$40 million, or approximately two times trailing twelve months revenue. This amount was over twice the price the seller had been willing to accept several months earlier from a buyer who approached it prior to our engagement, but could not secure financing to close the transaction.

Our success with ROIS illustrates the superior results that can be realized with a well-executed process undertaken by experienced merger and acquisition professionals knowledgeable about the industry and the intentions of its participants.

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Private Gaming and Entertainment Software Company

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Private Gaming and Entertainment Software Company

OEM Capital sourced the investor, and advised the Company, a privately-owned gaming and entertainment software provider, on the private placement of an equity investment by a European Investment Group.

As a result of our involvement, the Company was able to close a transaction that provided the necessary capital to proceed with the next phase of their product development process, and do so on favorable terms to the existing shareholders.

OEM Capital is a specialty investment banking firm offering corporate finance advisory services to both public and private electronics, communications, software, and information technology companies. Services offered include strategic advisory, mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of debt and equity, PIPEs, recapitalizations and restructurings, and financial opinions.

OEM Capital‘s professionals have extensive experience in the industries they cover, and as a founding member of the Alliance of International Corporate Advisors (AICA), OEM Capital can provide our clients with access to transactions on a global scale, in every major technology market in the world.

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Teksoft

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Teksoft

TekSoft, Inc. develops software for integrating wire frame and solids modeling design with CNC machining, turning and fabricating equipment. Cimtronics, Inc. is a reseller of computer assisted manufacturing software. The company’s parent, OnCourse Technologies, Inc., is a public company that develops, markets and supports proprietary software for manufacturing.

Geometric Software Solutions Co. Ltd., headquartered in Bombay , India , provides product life cycle management solutions to the global mechanical design, manufacturing and industrial markets. The company employs over 1,000 software professionals at its offshore development centers and has wholly owned subsidiaries in the US , Asia and Europe .

OEM Capital was asked by Mertz Associates, Inc. a Milwaukee based firm serving as the exclusive financial advisor to OnCourse Technologies, Inc. and, along with OEM Capital , a member of the International Association of Merger and Acquisition Professionals, to assist it in the sale of TekSoft, Inc. and Cimtronics, Inc. by helping to position the company for a sale and identifying and contacting potential buyers.

OEM Capital worked closely with Mertz Associates, Inc. to develop a marketing program aimed at soliciting interest from strategic acquirers. This program elicited a number of interested parties, from which a few were selected to meet with management and receive a detailed business presentation.

Our success with OnCourse Technologies, Inc. illustrates that superior results can be realized by a well-executed approach by merger and acquisition professionals who are knowledgeable about the industry and the intentions of its participants.

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Metro Creative SCW

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Metro Creative SCW

Metro Creative Graphics, Inc., a closely held company based in New York , New York , is a provider of graphics services to newspapers throughout the US . It sought to secure equity capital to convert its graphics library into an electronic version. We determined that a much more attractive solution to securing capital was in financing the acquisition of its only major competitor, SCW, Inc. As it was essentially the purchase of a customer list, a significant increase in profits would accrue to our client from the increased revenues.

SCW, Inc., a West Coast division of The E. W. Scripps Company was engaged in an identical business. Previously SCW, Inc. had approached Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. to purchase its business. We initiated discussions and assisted management in its negotiations with The E. W. Scripps Company, helped the company prepare its financial plan and approached the most likely lenders.

OEM Capital’s presentation of the acquisition’s attractiveness to a number of lenders secured the required funding in a timely manner from the New York Graphics Arts Lending practice of Marine Midland Bank. The investment allowed Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. to implement its transition to an electronic version of its graphics library and launch its software subscription services and provide it with additional revenues and cash flow.

Our success with Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. illustrates that, whether a business is healthy or distressed, superior results can be realized for the shareholders by a well executed approach by merger and acquisition professionals who are knowledgeable about the state of the financial markets and the intentions of its participants.

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Metro Creative Graphics

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Metro Creative Graphics

Metro Creative Graphics, Inc., a closely held company based in New York , New York , is a provider of graphics services to newspapers throughout the US .

OEM Capital was asked to assist Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. in securing financing to complete its contemplated acquisition of SCW, Inc., a West Coast division of The E. W. Scripps Company, which was engaged in a similar business. The loan also would provide for additional working capital to execute Metro Creative Graphics, Inc.’s software services build-out. We initiated discussions and assisted management in its negotiations with The E. W. Scripps Company, helped the company prepare its financial plan and approached the most likely lenders.

OEM Capital’s presentation of the acquisition’s attractiveness to a number of lenders secured the required funding in a timely manner from the New York Graphics Arts Lending practice of Marine Midland Bank. The investment allowed Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. to launch its software services and provide it with additional revenues and cash flow.

Our success with Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. illustrates that, whether a business is healthy or distressed, superior results can be realized for the shareholders by a well executed approach by merger and acquisition professionals who are knowledgeable about the state of the financial markets and the intentions of its participants.

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Max Q Technologies

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Max Q Technologies

Max Q Technologies, Inc., a privately held company based in Norwalk , Connecticut , was formed to provide total business software solutions and implementation services for middle market companies. The company is in the forefront of developing advanced supply chain management, data warehousing and financial applications. It plans to develop a national network of value added resellers to provide businesses a cost-effective solution with the quality control assurances of a national brand.

CEP Systems, Inc., a private company headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut and Beacon Productivity Group, Inc., a private company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan are software developers and value added resellers of third-party software. EBIZ USA Inc. was the predecessor company to Max Q Technologies, Inc.

OEM Capital was asked by the CEO and founder of Max Q Technologies to assist him in merger and acquisition negotiations and to secure the necessary investment to conclude the contemplated transactions .

OEM Capital worked closely with the founder to prepare a financing memorandum and investor presentations while developing a marketing program aimed at soliciting interest from interested equity groups. Using our network of institutional and individual private equity sources, this program elicited several interested investors and a selected group met with management and received a detailed presentation of the business plan.

As a result of our involvement, Max Q Technologies, Inc. was able to conclude a transaction with an investor group that is prepared to fund additional acquisitions.

Our success with Max Q Technologies, Inc. illustrates that superior results can be realized for a company by a well-executed sales approach by merger and acquisition professionals who are knowledgeable about the industry and the intentions of its participants.

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Cetec Corporation

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Cetec Corporation

Cetec Software Services, Inc., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belgrave Industries, Inc., a closely held company with annual revenues of approximately US$18 million. Belgrave Industries, Inc. is based in El Monte , California with operations throughout the Greater Los Angeles area. Cetec Software Services, Inc. is engaged in the development and sale of an enterprise wide software suite for electronics distributors.

OEM Capital worked closely with the management of Cetec Software Services, Inc. to assist it in the purchase of the business from Belgrave Industries, Inc. shortly after the formation of Belgrave Industries, Inc. Belgrave Industries, Inc. had determined that a software business did not fit its strategic objectives and, therefore, did not wish to invest in migrating the software to a new operating system. A prompt sale of Cetec Software Services allowed Belgrave Industries, Inc. to reduce its debt and concentrate on its core businesses.

Our success with Cetec Software Services, Inc. illustrates that , whether a business is healthy, under performing or distressed, superior valuations can be realized for the selling shareholders by a well-executed approach to a sale or divestiture by merger and acquisition professionals who are knowledgeable about the industry and the intentions of its participants.

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Allenbach Industries

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Allenbach Industries

Allenbach Industries, Inc., a closely held company headquartered in Carlsbad , California with manufacturing facilities located in San Jose , California and Bloomington , Minnesota , is a software duplication and fulfillment company whose services are used by software publishers.

Omni Multimedia Group, Inc., an American Stock Exchange listed company is headquartered in Millbury , Massachusetts . It offers software publishers complete, turnkey software manufacturing and distribution services, which include CD-ROM mastering and replication, magnetic diskette duplication services, document printing, packaging and fulfillment.

OEM Capital was asked to assist Allenbach Industries, Inc. in finding a purchaser for its business and advise it on techniques that would maximize short-term cash accumulation. The software industry had been undergoing a media transition in the distribution its products from magnetic diskette to CD-ROM and on-line downloads.

Due to declining sales and operating losses, Allenbach Industries, Inc was not able to secure the necessary amount of capital to purchase CD-ROM mastering and replication equipment and reposition its business.

OEM Capital’s presentation of the company’s value to an acquirer and our knowledge of the industry quickly secured a serious acquirer. Because time was of the essence, the transaction was closed quickly.

Our success with Allenbach Industries, Inc. illustrates that, whether a business is healthy, under performing or distressed, superior valuations can be realized for the selling shareholders by a well-executed approach to a sale or divestiture by merger and acquisition professionals who are knowledgeable about the industry and the intentions of its participants.

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