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Overview of Marco Polo Group

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Marco Polo Group is a financial services group focused on cross-border trading and investment banking between the G7 economies and the emerging markets.

Marco Polo Network Inc. is the leading cross-border electronic trading platform linking global brokers and buy side institutions to Global Emerging Market (“GEM”) exchanges.

Marco Polo Securities, Inc. is a FINRA registered broker/dealer

The investment banking services of Marco Polo Securities operates under the name Marco Polo Partners. The team is headquartered in New York, with dedicated advisory units in key Global Emerging Markets including China, India, Latin America, South America, and Israel. Marco Polo Partners utilizes the institutional relationships of Marco Polo Network, that presently connects investors to approximately 73 exchanges, 52 countries and over 120 brokers.

Marco Polo Group Overview

Marco Polo Group

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Marco Polo Securities

Inc.

Marco Polo Partners

Marco Polo Network

Inc.

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Marco Polo Network Strategic Investors

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Marco Polo Investment Banking Services

Advising clients on raising debt and equity capital through structured finance arrangements

Advising clients on raising debt and equity capital through structured finance arrangements

We combine international experience at the highest level with local knowledge throughout the world

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Advise companies entering the emerging markets countries including China, Israel, India, Brazil, Mexico and Chile

Focus on Technology, Energy, Cleantech, Life Sciences, and Financial Services

Advise companies entering the emerging markets countries including China, Israel, India, Brazil, Mexico and Chile

Focus on Technology, Energy, Cleantech, Life Sciences, and Financial Services

Advise, arrange and structure: Sell and buy-side acquisitions, mergers, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, rollups, spin-offs, restructuring, recapitalizations and divestitures

Advise, arrange and structure: Sell and buy-side acquisitions, mergers, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, rollups, spin-offs, restructuring, recapitalizations and divestitures

Emerging Market GatewayCapital Raising M&A Advisory JVs & Strategic

Partnerships

Establish strategic partnerships and JVs as a strategy to penetrate key markets

Marco Polo Partners has extensive relationships within all the emerging markets

Establish strategic partnerships and JVs as a strategy to penetrate key markets

Marco Polo Partners has extensive relationships within all the emerging markets

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Marco Polo Partners provides unique business opportunities for global companies

with an emphasis on United States, Europe, Israel, China, India and Brazil

Marco Polo Partners – Leveraging Marco Polo Network Extensive Connections

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Marco Polo Group - Global Presence

New York - Headquarters

Mexico

Colombia

Brazil

London

Bangalore Hong Kong

Unique Market Reach

8 offices across the world Network infrastructure providing access to over 50 countries Relationships with over 120 local market brokers worldwide

Austria

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Senior Banking Team

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Vinode Ramgopal - Advisor

19 years of global investment banking experience Head of the International M&A Group at Lehman Brothers Head of the Global Privatization Group at Lehman Brothers Founded Marco Polo Partners

Harold Goldstein - Banker

40 years of global investment banking experience Co-head of Lehman Brothers European banking operations Chief Operating Officer at Lehman Brothers International

Michael Clatterbuck - Advisor

27 years of global corporate and investment banking experience Managing Director, Investment Banking for China at Lehman Brothers Global Head of Private Equity and Investment Banking at Standard Chartered Bank Country Manager for China, Taiwan and Singapore at Chase Manhattan Bank

Clifford Goldman - Banker

35 years of global corporate finance and investment banking experience Former Partner at Lehman Brothers and Furman Selz Developed and managed a fixed income trading business at Lehman Brothers Started and operated an interest rate arbitrage and government repo-matched book

business at Furman Selz

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Senior Banking Team and Advisors – Experience

The personnel of Marco Polo Partners, principally from Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, bring to their clients their extensive Wall Street experience in the areas of M&A, private placements, restructurings, and capital market activities in the international markets.

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Daniela Bendor - Banker

14 years of corporate finance and investment banking experience Executed M&A and licensing deals with leading technology companies including IBM, HP,

Ericsson, Microsoft, Broadsoft and Baxter Led a Corporate Finance and Strategic Planning Group at Arthur Andersen Advisor to senior management and boards of directors regarding complex strategic and

financial issues

Drew Osterman – Senior Consultant

25 years of global corporate experience, former CEO and Sr. Executive with leading high technology companies

Executed M&A and licensing deals with global technology companies including Sun, HP, Micron, Microsoft, Asia Optical, BAE Systems, Intel, SS/Loral, Sony and Fujitsu/Siemens

Extensive background in market research, contracts management, process technology, systems hardware and software technology

Don Weiss - Advisor

Former CEO of Measurement Specialties Inc. (NASDAQ:MEAS) Hired by Bell Labs to monetize the Bell Labs technology portfolio Holds 8 patents filed by Bell Labs and several more during his tenure at Measurement

Specialties Inc. Currently holds high security clearance

Hiroo Awanoo - Banker

20 years of global investment banking experience Director of Merrill Lynch Investment Banking in New York Executive Vice President and a board member of EPower Holdings Worked at McKinsey & Co. in New York and in Tokyo and at Salomon Brothers

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Senior Banking Team and Advisors – Experience

With 100s of years of combined experience, Marco Polo Partners’ senior bankers have the capability to screen, structure, value, execute and place transactions globally

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Masatsugu Sakai - Banker

15 years of global investment banking experience Vice President in the Investment Banking of Daiwa Securities in New York Provide capital raising services to funds and companies growing internationally

Alexander von Perfall - Advisor

European-American project finance and management advisory professional Over 10 years of cross-border business development and principal investment experience. Advised numerous institutions and high-net-worth individuals on cross-border private

equity strategies and has a successful track record of capital formation in the media and telecommunications sector.

Amit Sharma - Advisor

12 years of corporate strategy experience in the financial services industry Vice President of Strategy at ICICI Group. Led 5 cross border transactions across the IT

services & BPO Consultant with McKinsey & Co. and KPMG

Raahim Don - Advisor

7 years of transaction structuring experience in investment banking Co-Founder of Saffron Capital Fund; Indo-US Small Cap Special Situations Fund.   Chief Investment Officer of Rubicon Group LTD, small cap equity line of credit fund Advisor to SDC Capital; $400M long-short/Special situations fund

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Shiva Ganapathy - Advisor

20 years of global financial markets and banking experience Senior Managing Director at Structured Asset Management Company, dealing with credit

and Hedge Funds Managing Director at Citigroup Global Markets, where he held leading positions in Asia,

Europe and the US

Vishal Sharma, CFA - Banker

9 years of investment banking, corporate finance and M&A experience Advised institutional investors on US – India cross-border transactions Worked in Lehman Brothers investment banking and debt capital markets divisions

Sergio Camillo - Advisor

15 years of investment banking experience in Latin America Established the Brazil franchise for Lehman Brothers Let the Media and Telecom practice in Brazil for Lehman Brothers Consultant with McKinsey & Company and was a banker at Citigroup in Brazil

Mario Chamorro - Advisor

Background in energy consulting Worked in the Center for Energy at Columbia University Implemented trading tools while working as a broker assistant at the NYMEX Worked on the presidential campaign of President Alvaro Uribe Velez of Columbia

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Shane Blackmore - Banker

Background in energy research 5 years of relationship management experience Analyzed operating companies and SPACs for listing on the American Stock Exchange

Efrat Tavivian - Advisor

Background in equity research Assistant trader at a quant Hedge Fund Strong marketing and sales experience

Peter Jardine - Advisor

25 years of global investment banking and capital markets experience, primary focus on Africa

Head of African investment banking at Lehman Brothers Head of Standard Equities

Harvey M. Krueger - Board Member Marco Polo Network - Advisor

Vice Chairman (emeritus) at Lehman Brothers, Inc. where he formerly was head of Lehman’s Investment Banking Group.

Mr. Krueger acted as an advisor to clients in executing numerous financing and M&A transactions for more than 45 years.

Mr. Krueger is a highly experienced investor in Israeli companies and has often been credited with, essentially single-handedly, opening the international capital markets to Israeli governmental and corporate securities.

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