Join us for a unique opportunity to learn about the rapidly expanding marketplace for private company stock and the crucial role this marketplace is playing in enhancing capital formation. You will also meet senior executives of this market’s potential bellwether companies and demo their game-changing technologies.

Presentations will be followed by exclusive networking opportunities with an elite group of accredited investors and investment professionals over cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.

If you will be traveling from out of town and require assistance organizing your travel plans, please contact our concierge at concierge@soholoftevents.com. The Soho Loft’s first-class concierge services include chartering private planes, arranging flights, limos, hotels, restaurant reservations and coordinating social calendars.

Speakers in San Francisco include:

·         Vince Molinari — CEO of GATE Technologies, a leading private company exchange platform. Its Global Alternative Trading Engine, or "GATE Platform," is rapidly establishing what are expected to become the default marketplaces for numerous illiquid/alternative asset classes in multiple geographies. Mr. Molinari has been the driving force behind GATE’s mission to create new market infrastructure that brings efficiency, transparency, and liquidity to the unstructured global alternative asset markets. His vision is based on a core belief that actionable knowledge and information drive investments, and that technology can close the gap between traditional and emerging alternative markets. Mr. Molinari will be providing key insight into some of the recent legislative proposals that will undoubtedly impact the evolution of our capital markets system.

·         Thomas Foley – CEO of Xpert Financial. From its inception in 2009, Xpert Financial has focused its efforts on creating an electronic platform that benefits both companies and investors in the private securities market. The company’s core product, Xpert ATS, is a fully-electronic capital raising and trading platform built exclusively for private company securities. It is operated by Xpert Securities, Inc., a broker-dealer subsidiary of Xpert Financial and a member of FINRA. Xpert ATS supports both primary offerings and secondary trading of private company shares, all under the control of the issuing company. Private companies, qualified institutional buyers and accredited investors that are interested in more information may pre-register at www.xpertfinancial.com.

·         Linda Smith — CEO of FaceCake Marketing Technologies, Inc., a pioneer and innovator in personalized interactive marketing whose cutting-edge virtual Try-On technologies and unparalleled marketing process patent enrich the relationship between brands and their consumers. FaceCake will be demonstrating Swivel—the first full motion, 3-D, real-time virtual dressing room—which has generated a tremendous amount of excitement from the international community since its launch at DEMO Spring 2011. Swivel was featured at the 2011 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference held July 10-14 in Los Angeles.

·         David Schieffelin – CEO of 24/8, an emerging private company possessing an innovative technology platform using microelectronic sensing materials, wireless communications architecture and a powerful analytic engine of proprietary algorithms to gather, store, interpret and transmit physical activity (motion and force) and other information through the cellular and local communication systems. The Company’s initial product also acts as a “gateway” for the transmission of medical and other information through the communication systems. The platform and systems are embedded into products that currently address the rapidly growing international mobile health/wellness and sports markets, through commercial partnerships with major corporate and/or healthcare leaders.  24/8 is ideally positioned to execute its business strategy of marketing products and systems directly to consumers, as an OEM developer, manufacturer, and/or licensor of proprietary technology to generate continuous monthly revenue recognition. The Company has established a strategic relationship with Verizon Wireless that will support the Company’s accelerated product release strategy and create the basis from which the valuation model is developed. 24/8 was recently featured in The Wall Street Journal.

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