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February 13,
2009
Technology, Materials Technology, Medical Waste Removal, Healthcare and Oil
& Gas
Technology
Communication Equipment
GTX Corp (GTXO-OTC: BB)
“We work with channel partners and design solutions specifically for the
markets we plan to enter; therefore, the end use products are very different
in the military or law enforcement than it is for the elderly, children,
pets and so forth. Depending on the vertical market, you have a different
look feel and functionality to the actual product and the presentation layer
on the internet. The functionalities, look and feel will be different from
market to market, but the underlying technology, our gpVector 2 way GPS, is
all the same.” - Patrick E. Bertagna
Materials Technology
Consumer Products
Element 21 Sports Company (ETGF-OTC: BB)
“We are a company to watch for because we are dealing with fundamentals. We
are not in the market with a new design or a new fad. There aren’t too many
fundamental materials, there is only one titanium, there is only one steel,
there is only one graphite and there is only one Scandium and Element 21 is
a face of the Scandium technology.” - Dr. Nataliya Hearn, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Small Medical Equipment
Biomedical Waste Removal
BioMedical Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. (BMTL-OTC: BB)
“We sit in a growing biomedical waste market and we will never run out of
waste in this country; however, we will run out of ways of throwing it away,
we will run out of landfills, incineration, but we will never run out of the
waste. Therefore, we need to have the alternative technology to help us
dispose of that waste in a safer and cleaner way, and we have that product.”
- Donald G. Cox Jr.
Healthcare
Diagnostics Substances
Neogen Corporation (NEOG-NASDAQ)
“More than anything, in the difficult economic climate that we find
ourselves in these days, Neogen has a mission that matters. Regardless of
how difficult times may be, consumers will always demand the safest food
possible and of the highest quality possible. That is exactly where Neogen’s
products are positioned.” - James L. Herbert
Oil & Gas
Oil & Gas Producers
Veraz Petroleum Ltd. (VRZ- CNSX)
“One of the key things that separates our block from a lot of the other
blocks in Peru is that one of the wells that Occidental drilled in 1989 had
hydrocarbon shows from four different zones, that dramatically mitigates the
exploration risk on a block.” - Gerardjan Cosijn
January 30,
2009
Resources, Oil & Gas, Mining, Basic Materials, Financial, Technology &
Business Services
Mining
Gold
Victoria Gold Corporation (VIT-TSXV)
“The vision of Victoria is very simple. We are focused on gold and we are
focused on adding value through exploration, development and eventually
production in projects located in relatively safe political jurisdictions.
Currently, we are only in Nevada in the United States, but we are looking at
opportunities in Canada and Mexico. So we are focused on North America.” -
Chad Williams
Basic Materials : Precious Metals, Minerals, Oil
Shale
Industrial Metals & Minerals
Bullion Monarch Mining, Inc. (BULM-OTC: BB)
“One thing that is something that may be hard for some people to grasp is
this oil shale is a mining project. We studied what the oil companies have
done, they have attacked it from their own paradigm, which is if you can’t
drill it, and get it out, it is not there. This is definitely something that
has to be mined and processed. It isn’t out of our field at all. We feel
very strongly that we have the advantage because we are mineral miners, we
have to mine shale and then process it, and the process is a heat process
where it releases kerogen that makes up a good grade crude oil. We have
compared it to a lot of our mining projects that we have been involved in
and some that we are looking at for the future and the oil shale is a mining
project that beats anything that we could be looking at. We are focusing on
our oil shale mining project although we are continuing to look other
potentially good mining projects.” - R. Don Morris
Financial
Regional – Mid-Atlantic Banks
Bank of Virginia (BOVA-NASDAQ)
“We are located in an area which economically has had tremendous growth;
there are a lot of small businesses in the area and that is truly our bread
and butter.” - Frank Bell III
Technology
Internet Information Providers
Quepasa Corporation (QPSA-NASDAQ)
“Our vision is to transform Quepasa into the leading social network
destination for Latinos in the US and in Latin America.” - John C. Abbott
Business Services
Computer Software & Processing
YANGAROO® Inc. (YOO-TSXV, YOOIF-OTC: BB)
“In Canada, DMDS has become a verb, because people will say, ‘just DMDS that
track over to me’. The Canadian music industry has led the world in first
fully transitioning from physical CD media delivery to secure digital
delivery, with DMDS. All four of the major record labels use us in Canada:
Sony, BMG, EMI, Universal and Warner. In the United States, they are using
us as well. The good news is a tremendous watershed event for us. We’ve just
received notice of allowance for our U.S. patent application for our Content
Distribution System and Method.” - John Heaven
January 16,
2009
Financial, Services, Mining, Healthcare, Communications & Energy
Exploration
Metals/Mining
Lions Gate Metals Inc. (LGM-TSXV)
“Lions Gate Metals is focused on copper producing assets. We have three
excellent assets that have all had 43-101s done on them in the past and our
focus market is Asia. The demand coming out of Asia will be huge in the next
five to ten years.” - Mark Hewett
Financial
Community Bank
Sound
Financial, Inc. (SNFL-OTC: BB)
“Our vision is very clear. We really believe we make peoples dreams come
true. Whether that dream is the dream for a first-time homebuyer, a
first-time car buyer, a safe retirement strategy, or a business looking to
expand their market share, we believe that we are partners with our client
and that we can make their dreams come true, one transaction at a time.” -
Ms. Laura Lee Stewart
Financial
REIT-Hotel/Motel
Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc. (SHO-NYSE)
“We see 2009 as being a continuation of the mature phase of the cycle, which
will be followed by a growth phase. Because we executed on a number of
strategic transactions ranging from issuing low-interest convertible senior
notes back in 2007, to the sale of one of our core assets at a great price
earlier this year, we are well positioned as we sit here today.” - Kenneth
E. Cruse
Healthcare - Technology
Computer Peripherals-Imaging
iCAD, Inc. (ICAD-NASDAQ)
“We are an industry-leading provider of Computer-Aided Detection solutions
in advanced image analysis and workflow solutions for the early
identification of the most prevalent cancers. Those are the cancers with the
highest incidence per year; breast, colon, prostate and lung. Our products
help clinicians find these prevalent cancers, much earlier, faster and with
greater confidence.” - Ms. Darlene M. Deptula-Hicks, M.B.A.
Communications
Intelligent Business Applications
Ivrnet Inc. (IVI-TSXV)
“We are a communication company that focuses on voice applications and
services. Our goal is to build out a set of communications applications and
services that let companies find new ways to automate and improve their
internal processes and the way they communicate with their customers and
their shareholders; stake holders of all sorts.” - David Snell
Energy
Oil & Gas
Petro Andina Resources Inc. (PAR-TSX)
“We also have the opportunity to grow. We’re working with the government in
Argentina and with some of our partners to determine whether we can expand
and acquire additional opportunities there. We’ve also positioned the
company in Trinidad and Tobago. Although Trinidad is a small island, it has
very significant oil and gas production.” - Wayne K. Foo
January 2,
2009
Specialty Finance, Financem Basic Materials, Industrial Services,, Services,
Technology, Medical Instruments, Mining & Exploration
Finance
Smartcard
SmartCard Marketing Systems, Inc. (SMKG-OTCPK)
“Yes, our transactions have gone up month-after-month, and as I alluded to
earlier, we have just begun. We are still at the very early stages of our
growth curve. You can see in our press releases that our transactions are
almost doubling every month. Obviously, we can’t expect that same growth
rate forever, but we see a very lucrative growth curve ahead of us over the
next year. Interestingly enough, the economic climate today is actually
driving our business because people who’s credit is hampered on the consumer
side, who can’t get or use a credit card, are turning towards debit. That is
a global trend that we are benefiting from, the move from credit to debit.
It is something that is occurring in the market naturally.” - Bruce Baillio,
MBA
Basic Materials
Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration
Bonanza Oil & Gas, Inc. (BGOI-OTC: BB)
“We became public at the end of 2007, as an oil and gas production and
development company. We look forward to the future. We have a long-term
drilling program that we have implemented. This program will last
approximately three years, and the plan is to grow the company through the
drill bit.” - William Wiseman
Industrial Services
Construction
The Churchill Corporation (CUQ-TSX)
“One thing that sets us apart is our spectrum of companies. For the two key
market drivers in Alberta, we are ideally placed. The first market as you
know is the infrastructure market and our Stuart Olson Company has a great
reputation and is very active in probably the best area to be, the large and
sophisticated project area. On the industrial side our four industrial
companies are respected, and are ideally placed. The other general thing I
would say is that in many of our companies we have a mature, stable
workforce especially in the management ranks. We have a lot of long-term
employees in our companies. They have been with us for 25-35 years. We have
the sons and daughters of employees coming into the different organizations.
We have a pretty stable and attractive place to work and we are committed to
improving that even more. I think for those two reasons, and especially in
this climate where everybody is busy and looking for good people, I think
the key attraction is probably our stable mature workforce.” - Peter F.
Adams
Services
Specialty Eateries
Papa Bello Enterprises, Inc. (PAPA-OTCPK)
“We are extremely encouraged that we are growing in the current economic
environment and we are still getting interest and leads and opening new
stores with literally zero marketing efforts. As we move forward into 2009,
we are going to begin a marketing campaign, which is something that we have
yet to do…We think with that and the growing popularity and interest in our
brand that we are going to get to continue to grow.” - Chase S. Canfield
Technology
Diversified Electronics
Global Axcess Corp. (GAXC-OTC: BB)
“Most of the change has been a refocus on our core business and getting back
to the basics of running that business. We’re becoming more detail oriented,
more cost conscious and our business is managing Automated Teller-Machines
or ATMs. Therefore, we’ve put a lot of focus on making sure that each ATM is
profitable and improving our net profit.” - George McQuain
Technology
Internet Content
Live Current Media Inc. (LIVC - OTC: BB)
“When you look at things like the size of the health and beauty market, you
look at the concept and how we differentiate ourselves in the marketplace.
Both through the fact that we can acquire customers at a very low price
which gives us a huge market advantage and the fact that we have a concept
which will radically change the way the consumers interact with destination
hubs in the health and beauty segment and this cricket deal, I think we have
an enormous amount of upside. I would like to say that the wind is behind us
because the trends in both of these segments are firmly behind the growth of
online experiences and what we are doing with destination hubs is unique and
market differentiating and will allow us to become the market leader.” - C.
Geoffrey Hampson
Medical Instruments & Supplies
Peripheral Vascular
LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. (LMAT-NASDAQ)
“LeMaitre is a company that focuses predominately on the vascular surgeon
and the vision is to develop, acquire and market vascular products that
speak directly to the approximately 5000 vascular surgeons worldwide.” -
Joseph P. Pellegrino, Jr.
December 12,
2008
Capital Equipment, Technology, Financial,, Industrial Goods, Consumer Goods,
Basic Materials, Mining & Exploration
Financial
Regional – Pacific Banks
The Private Bank of the Peninsula (PBKH-OTC: BB)
“What we have done over the last year is upgrade our online banking and
we moved to a new location. We hired five key executives over the last 6
months. We would like to get better at what we are doing now in all areas;
delivering better client service, becoming more responsive on both the
deposit and loan sides of the business. We want to continually improve our
technology, which includes our core processing as well as internet banking.
We installed remote deposit capture last year, which allows businesses to
become more efficient by making deposits from their locations and saving a
trip to the bank. We want to be a 21st century bank.” - Kenneth
D. Brenner
Industrial Goods
Textile Industrial
Xerium Technologies, Inc. (XRM-NYSE)
“It is a consumables business, which to me, means that if there is going to
be paper produced, there is going to be Xerium. Margins tend to be strong in
a business like this. We have a management team focused on removing
obstacles to the Company’s success and they have already been successful
removing several. Debt is the last of those obstacles and nothing gets more
attention than reducing our debt burden. So I think the prospects of the
company are good and solid.” - Stephen R. Light
Consumer Goods
Auto Parts
Noble International, Ltd. (NOBL-NASDAQ)
“Noble is a worldwide leader in Laser Welding and Roll Forming technology.
We have a leading market share in North America, Europe, and China in Laser
Welding. Today, our customers are mostly automotive. Our vision for the
future is three-fold. First, our goal is to continue to expand our business
within the automotive industry worldwide with both existing customers and
new customers, particularly the Asian based OEMs like Toyota and Honda, and
to expand our initiatives in Asia and other rapidly growing regions of the
world. Second, we will increase our product base by continuing to develop
technologies that complement Laser Welding and Roll Forming. Third, we will
diversify our industry base to include industries other than automotive.” -
Thomas L. Saeli
Basic Materials
Potash
Allana Resources Inc. (AAA-TSXV)
“The reason I was attracted to Allana Resources is that this particular
asset in Ethiopia, in the Ethiopian dessert in the northeast of the country,
has very attractive characteristics. This deposit has very shallow depth of
about 50 to 80 meters deep and this property was previously explored by a
number of different reputable companies. For example, in the 1960’s an
American company called Parsons did full exploration programs with about
three hundred drill holes in that area. We already have a report on this
property, done by a premiere potash engineering firm out of Germany called
Ercosplan. The property has very positive characteristics plus the fact that
Ethiopia is considered a very stable and pro-business government in Africa.
Therefore, I have decided to join the company to lead this effort.” - Farhad
Abasov
Basic Materials
Independent Oil & Gas
Lucas Energy, Inc. (LEI-AMEX)
“We don’t intend to be a small company in this market forever by any means.
Our game plan is to continue to grow. Right now, we third party contract out
a lot of the services that other companies handle in-house. For instance, we
outsource all of our operating functions in the field. We also outsource our
internal accounting, management reporting and investor relations services.
We are a small and relatively low overhead public company. Our present
permanent employee base is six people, plus all the independent contractors
providing services to us. Our business plan is to expand our operations, to
grow our reserves, production, and cash flow and to do that in a short
period of time. Our time horizon is two to three years in order to really
make a definite impact. We are nimble and we are quick. We want to build a
different kind of oil and gas company. We do not take exploratory risks. We
are risk averse and demonstrate that in the kinds of properties we acquire,
clean up, re-enter, re-work or drill new laterals on and we anticipate that
all of them will be brought back onto economic production. We have had very
good success at that. We are not the typical E&P company that takes high
dollar risks. We acquire properties in proven areas where significant
reserves have been and remain to be produced, especially where our
management has experience in acquiring targets and bringing those properties
to a higher level of on-going production.” - W. A. Sikora
Mining
Gold
Levon Resources Ltd. (LVN-TSXV)
“In fact, the
management of the company owns over 35% of the company right now and I would
expect that to be up to more like 50% of the company. When you have a
management with that kind of a position in the company and you have
experience and the ability to add value to the company with the price of the
stock right now and the state of everything out there, there is a huge
upside potential for the company.” -
Ron Tremblay
Exploration
Gold & Copper Mining
Northern Tiger Resources Inc. (NTR-TSXV)
“Our vision is to expressively explore the Yukon’s Dawson Range. We feel it
is an underexplored area, with a lot of potential and we are going to
aggressively look for economic mineral deposits.” - Greg Hayes
Technology
Landmine Removal
Mine Clearing Corp. (MCCO-OTC: BB)
“The vision at Mine Clearing Corp. is to basically revolutionize the current
environment for detecting, scanning, and removing landmines. We think it is
a plague upon developing nations and we want to be the leader in solving
that problem. We are also focused on being a very successful, highly
profitable business.” - Larry Olson
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