Birmingham, Alabama 10 January 2012 – Kirchner Private Capital Group (“KPCG” or the “Company”), a leading North American boutique merchant bank, today announced that over the last quarter it has enhanced its management and merger and acquisition teams with the addition of five industry veterans.

“Over the course of the last twenty-seven years we have built a unique platform for small- and medium-size businesses,” said Bud Kirchner, CEO and Founder of Kirchner Private Capital Group. “Our success has been predicated on our ability to attract best-in-class talent and these five individuals are clear examples of this. Collectively, they bring more than 125 years of experience as operators, investors, and transaction experts and they will enhance our platform for the benefit our clients and partners.”

Cameron Davies and Dr. Patrick McNees have joined KPCG as Managing Partners. Mr. Davies joins KPCG with more than a decade of capital market and financial services experience, where he has acted as a trusted advisor to numerous public and private companies and has been a profiled speaker at events targeting the investment community across North America. Dr. McNees leads KPCG’s Health and Life Science Integrated Focus Area and brings more than 35 years of experience as an entrepreneur, advisor, academic, and inventor. He was the founding CEO and Chief Scientist at Applied Health Science, Inc. and co-founder and President of North Rim Systems and Computer Associates, a software firm.

The Company also added seasoned veterans Jack Callaway and Clete Walker as Managing Directors to the M&A team. Mr. Callaway comes to KPCG with decades of investment banking experience including several years as Vice President at NBC Securities Inc., a subsidiary of First American Bank. Mr. Walker brings deep M&A experience to KPCG having executed more than one hundred transactions in his career.

In addition, Vince Krynski has joined the team as a Managing Director with the Transition Management group. Mr. Krynski joins KPCG from Streetlight Intelligence where, as CEO, he led the turnaround of the publicly listed technology company.

“Despite current market conditions we continue to grow and enhance our team with highly experienced professionals,” said Lew Turnquist, Senior Managing Partner. “We have always believed that people and relationships are at the foundation of building a superior platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises. These additions will not only continue to enhance our reach and reputation but, more importantly, will help our clients achieve their operational and transactional objectives.”

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About Kirchner Private Capital Group
Kirchner Private Capital Group is patterned after the original model for a merchant bank. Our team is comprised of successful business people who now apply their operational, transactional and investment experience to the unique needs of early- and mid-stage companies and their investors. We pride ourselves in both the quality and quantity of the long-term relationships we have built over the last 27 years. www.kirchnergroup.com

For further information:
Lew Turnquist
Senior Managing Partner
Phone: +1 (205) 313-0784
lturnquist@kirchnergroup.com

Cameron Davies
Managing Partner
Phone: +1 (416) 420-2861
cdavies@kirchnergroup.com

“We are very pleased to have a person of Cameron’s caliber join the Company,” said Mr. W.B. (Bud) Kirchner, CEO and founder of KPCG. “He is an outstanding leader, and his extensive relationships across the North American investment community, deep knowledge and understanding of the global capital markets and keen eye for product development will serve as key assets to the Company and our clients as we enter the next phase of our growth. We believe the addition of Cameron to our senior management team will enhance our abilities to maximize our opportunities in our chosen target markets.”

In his role as Managing Partner, Mr. Davies will focus on building KPCG’s transition and transaction management businesses. He will work to launch new products and services that add further value to current and prospective KPCG clients, including public and private companies, as well as investors.In addition, Mr. Davies will serve as a key point of contact for the investment community and the Company’s clients, providing an enhanced focused on client relations.

Mr. Davies joins KPCG with more than a decade of capital market and financial services experience, where he has acted as a trusted advisor to numerous public and private companies and has been a profiled speaker at events targeting the investment community across North America. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President at investor relations firm, TMX Equicom (“Equicom”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Toronto Stock Exchange. At Equicom, Mr. Davies oversaw numerous groups, helped grow the company’s client base more than 500 percent, was involved in the launch of various new products and services for publicly-listed issuers and acted as a critical member of the team that was responsible for the company’s acquisition by the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2007. He was instrumental in Equicom’s positioning for both strategic and operational success and proved himself as a valued industry advisor. Prior to that, Mr. Davies worked with a Toronto-based technology and life science focused Investment Fund and worked in investment services for the Royal Bank of Canada. Mr. Davies holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

“I have spent my career to date building relationships with mid-market companies and the investment community that supports them, and I am excited about being able to better serve them all as a member of the KPCG team,” said Mr. Cameron Davies. “I am looking forward to working with an impressive group of well established professionals and leveraging the excellent KPCG platform to help small- and medium-sized enterprises best achieve their capital markets objectives.”

About Kirchner Private Capital Group
Kirchner Private Capital Group is patterned after the original model for a merchant bank. Our team is comprised of successful business people who now apply their operational, transactional and investment experience to the unique needs of early- and mid-stage companies and their investors. We pride ourselves in both the quality and quantity of the long-term relationships we have built over the last 26 years. www.kirchnergroup.com

For further information:

Lew Turnquist
Senior Managing Partner
Phone: +1 (205) 313-0784
lturnquist@kirchnergroup.com

Cameron Davies
Managing Partner
Phone: +1 (416) 420-2861
cdavies@kirchnergroup.com

“The addition of Vince is an important strategic step for our company,” said W.B. (Bud) Kirchner, CEO and founder of KPCG. “He is the epitome of our unique three-dimensional platform as he brings together more than three decades of investor, operator and transactional experience. He will be a valuable asset to the KPCG team and our clients.”

Vince joins KPCG from Streetlight Intelligence where, as CEO, he led the turnaround of the publicly listed technology company. Prior to that, Vince held senior executive positions in, or sat on the Board of Directors of, numerous companies across a range of industries including oil field services and equipment, oil and gas pipelines, ballistic ceramic security technologies, wireless technologies and geophysical data management technologies. In addition, Vince was a founding partner at Foundry Ventures Inc., a privately owned venture capital group.

KPCG is one of North America’s leading boutique firms providing asset management, transaction management and operational transition management services to small and medium enterprises. Kirchner Transition Management, Inc., the operations support arm of KPCG, provides turnaround, workout, interim management and operational assessment services.

“I am excited to be joining KPCG,” said Vince Krynski. “I look forward to working with such a world-class team to continue to build upon the firm’s long history of success.”

About Kirchner Private Capital Group
Kirchner Private Capital Group is patterned after the original model for a merchant bank. Our team is comprised of successful business people who now apply their operational, transactional and investment experience to the unique needs of early- and mid-stage companies and their investors. We pride ourselves in both the quality and quantity of the long-term relationships we have built over the last 26 years. www.kirchnergroup.com

For further information:
Lew Turnquist
Senior Managing Partner
Phone: +1 (205) 313-0784
lturnquist@kirchnergroup.com

Lew joins Andy Agrawal, Managing Partner for the Investment Banking group, and Les Lyall, Managing Partner for the Asset Management group.

The Transition Management group provides a variety of hands-on services to companies operating off-plan, including interim management, diagnostic assessments, as well as leading restructurings, workouts and turnarounds. Universally, engagements are oriented toward measurable success in creating and restoring value.

“We are excited to have Lew lead the Transition Management group,” said W. B. (Bud) Kirchner, CEO and founder of KPCG. “This is where we began 25 years ago, and Lew’s experience will bring renewed focus to this area of our business.”

“KPCG is known for the senior operating experience of the team and its focus on small to medium enterprises,” said Turnquist. “But what makes us truly special is the integration of our three distinct but complimentary practices to create value for our clients. The Transition Management division allows us to apply our operational perspective and expertise; the success of our Investment Banking division demonstrates that we know what is important in monetizing value; and the Asset Management division brings the investor’s perspective to the mix.”

Lew has over 20 years of operational and transactional experience, focused in the latter part of his career on turning around troubled companies. In addition, he has served on the boards of private and public companies and has worked with companies through the IPO and strategic sale process. He joined KPCG in 2009 and, in that time, he has been deployed on both M&A and operational assignments. Lew holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, and a BSc from the University of King’s College.

About Kirchner Private Capital Group
The Kirchner Private Capital Group (KPCG) is partners, principals, agents and advisors to private companies, venture capital and buy-out firms, and institutional investors. Through a multifaceted, customized approach, we match our operational, transactional and investment skills to every investment management partnership, transition management engagement, and investment banking mandate. Our depth of experience, validated by a 25-year track record, enables us to assist both clients and partners achieve their objectives.

For further information:

Lew Turnquist
Managing Partner
Phone: +1 (205) 313-0784
lturnquist@kirchnergroup.com
www.kirchnergroup.com

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Quebec small to medium-size businesses have emerged from the crisis with healthy balance sheets and streamlined cost structures. The time has come for them to put this advantage to use and acquire technologies or other businesses, according to Warren Blair Kirchner, President of Kirchner Private Capital Group, an investment firm that specializes in financing and transactions for small to medium-size businesses.

“Lenders, investors and potential acquirers have regained an appetite for small to medium-size businesses with tangible plans for growth that are already in the implementation stage”, says this deal maker originally from New York.

Small to medium-size businesses will not succeed in drawing the attention of potential acquirers or getting venture capital firms to loosen their purse strings by turning inwards. Proactive measures are required, says Mr. Kirchner. “They’re not interested in waiting three years for a small to medium-size business to revive its R & D activities or hire sellers to bring its revenues up to speed”.

Over the past month, for instance, water treatment specialists GLV (TSX, GLV.A, $9.06) and Stella-Jones, a producer of railway ties and timbers (TSX, SJ, $26.95), both completed private placements with institutional investors for $40 million and $80 million, respectively, in order to finance recent acquisitions.

“This stock market dynamic can work on the closely-held corporations market,” asserts the 62 year old financier. He predicts a new wave of mergers and acquisitions in the wake of the paralysis brought on by the financial crisis.

Large corporations have liquid assets at hand and are actively looking for a competitive edge, whether it be the latest technology or a business doing well in its niche.

A third of its workforce soon in Montreal

The Kirchner Group, with its head office in Alabama, is celebrating 25 years in Canada. The firm wants to take advantage of the potential windfall of transactions in Quebec.

The firm’s office, located in downtown Montreal, will be home to between 6 and 10 professionals before the year is out. This is a third of Kirchner’s total workforce, made up of 28 professionals. In fact, Jean-Sébastien Lamoureux, formerly an executive at Investissement Québec, joined Kirchner a few days ago as a managing director.

“In a way, we are a virtual business. Our professionals go where business takes us,” says Mr. Kirchner, who spends one or two weeks in Montreal every month.

By Dominique Beauchamp
dominique.beauchamp@transcontinental.ca

Barry has 27 years of operational, private equity and venture capital experience. He has served on the boards of private and public companies, has held management operating roles and turnaround assignments and has worked with companies through the IPO and strategic sale process.

“We are pleased to have Barry join our steadily growing team of professionals,” said W. B. (Bud) Kirchner, CEO and founder of KPCG. “We have previously worked with Barry and his combination of hands-on operational expertise and private equity experience makes him an ideal candidate for our group. We are proud to be approaching our 25th year in this business and excited to have someone of Barry’s caliber and reputation join our team, working out of our Toronto office.”

“KPCG’s core foundation of deep operating experience and niche focus on small to medium enterprises was what attracted me to the group” said Gekiere. “The firm’s application of this ‘operational method’ throughout the life cycle of small and medium enterprises sets it apart from other investment bankers and advisors. The power of their approach together with the accomplished team that makes it work were compelling reasons for me to join the firm – I’m very excited about the opportunity.”

Prior to joining KPCG, Barry was a Partner at Ventures West, one of Canada’s largest privately owned venture capital firm where he spent 12 years making early stage technology investments in enterprise software, IT services, communications and medical device companies. While at VenturesWest, Barry used his operating experience to work closely with entrepreneurs as an active director and sounding board on operational and strategic issues.

Barry has an HBA Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He has also served on the Board of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association.

About Kirchner Private Capital Group www.kirchnergroup.com

The Kirchner Private Capital Group (KPCG) is partners, principals, agents and advisors to private companies, venture capital and private equity firms, and institutional investors. Through a multi-faceted, customized approach, we match our operational, transactional and investment skills to every investment management partnership, transition management engagement, and investment banking mandate. Our depth of experience, validated by a 25-year track record, enables us to assist both clients and partners achieve their objectives.

For inquiries, please contact:

Andy Agrawal, Managing Partner
(704) 644-2557
aagrawal@kirchnergroup.com

28 February 2006 – Clean Air Power (AIM:CAP), the company behind Dual-FuelTM technology, is pleased to announce its successful flotation on AIM today, in conjunction with a placing of 10,000,000 common shares at 100p pence per common share, raising £10.0m (gross). Clean Air Power will have a market capitalisation of approximately £26.3 million at the placing price on admission.

Clean Air Power provides Dual-FuelTM technology that enables heavy-duty diesel engines to operate on a combination of diesel and natural gas without jeopardising diesel engine performance. The current and forecast cost differential between diesel and natural gas provides significant fuel cost savings to operators and there is further benefit in the emissions reduction associated with natural gas vehicles.

Management, significantly enhanced in 2005 and early 2006 with the addition of John Pettitt as CEO, Steve Whelan as Technology Director and Peter Rowse as Financial Director, have strong commercial and technical expertise including 25 years’ collective experience in diesel engineering and Dual-FuelTM technology. Chairman Rodney Westhead is chairman of Carter & Carter plc and a senior non-executive director of Mouchelparkman plc and has served as Group Chief Executive of Ricardo plc.

John Pettitt, Chief Executive Officer, commenting on Clean Air Power’s admission to AIM, said:

“Our unique technology offers operators an opportunity to realise highly significant cost savings. The prospects for developing our presence in UK, Australian and US markets are exciting and we look forward to delivering reductions in both costs and emissions to customers.”

For further details

Clean Air Power John Pettitt, Chief Executive Peter Rowse, Finance Director

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