FocalPoint Partners’ Duane K. Stullich Discusses Capitalizing And Growing A Successful Start-Up

FocalPoint Partners LLC Managing Director Delivers Keynote Address To Central Coast MIT Enterprise Forum and Central Coast Venture Forum in Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, California (March 2004) — Duane K. Stullich, Managing Director, Focal Point Partners LLC, detailed a winning business plan for emerging companies during his keynote address here this evening for a special program entitled “Growing And Harvesting A Startup: Strategies For Success From Capitalization To Liquidity.”

Mr. Stullich’s wide-ranging presentation covered such topics as “Entrepreneurship and the Economy” and “Selling Your Company.” He used as illustration case studies of recent transactions: Senior Debt Placement in regard to the financing of La Brea Bakery’s expansion, and Sale Transaction via Pierre Fabre SA’s divestiture of Physician’s Formula to Summit Partners.

In addition, Mr. Stullich reviewed and elaborated upon the popular “Ten Commandments For Success” as developed in Entrepreneuring Magazine by Steven C. Brandt.

The event — sponsored by the Central Coast MIT Enterprise Forum and the Central Coast Venture Forum — showcased the region’s leading entrepreneurs and emerging-growth companies to venture capitalists and angel investors.

Mr. Stullich has extensive experience advising middle market companies with mergers and acquisitions (both healthy and distressed), leveraged transactions, private placements of debt and/or equity capital, private equity investing, employee stock ownership plans (ESOP), debt restructurings, and financial opinions including valuation, solvency and fairness opinions.

The Central Coast MIT Enterprise Forum is a non-profit organization committed to the promotion of entrepreneurial innovation and the sharing of knowledge and expertise. The Central Coast Venture Forum is the largest event of its kind on California’s Central Coast.

FocalPoint Partners LLC is an independent investment bank, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, raising capital (both debt and equity), and financial restructurings. The firm’s primary focus is on middle-market companies headquartered in the United States, operating with revenues between $5 million and $250 million in a diverse range of industries. FocalPoint is managed by seasoned veterans with backgrounds in law, public accounting, senior lending, private equity and investment banking at leading national and international firms. The firm’s goal is to provide unbiased, innovative financial advice by taking the time to truly understand the needs of its clients and then devising a strategy that best fits those objectives.

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