Wingate Investment Management Limited

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Wingate began operations on March 01, 2001 and chose at that time to focus solely on strategic and financial advisory work for corporations, mergers and acquisitions and equity private placement mandates in its capacity as a Limited Market Dealer. Because of the prevailing market conditions in early 2001, Wingate made a well-considered decision not to begin operating as an Investment Counsel/Portfolio Manager (ICPM). Wingate management at that time concluded that the growing dislocation between equity valuations and underlying company fundamentals in the technology sector had reached irrational proportions and that equity markets were facing significant likeliness of a severe correction. Recent history has shown that Wingate’s assessment of the opportunities in the equity markets at the time was sound.

Wingate Investment Management was founded in 2000 by Murray Grossner. Mr. Grossner's investment career spans 25 years involving equity research analysis, portfolio strategy, research management, investment banking and venture capital. Mr Grossner served as a board director of four leading Canadian investment dealers and one internationally renown investment banking organization. Since 1982, Mr. Grossner has been actively engaged in investing in, and advising technology companies. Mr. Grossner was ranked as the top technology equity research analyst in Canada for four consecutive years from 1991 to 1994 by the Brendan Woods Institutional Equities survey.

Some highlights of the activities of Wingate Investment Management include:

	Securing a three year incubator relationship with IBM, under the NetGeneration program.
	Strategic consulting work with N.M. Rothschild & Sons with respect to technology companies.
	Merger and aquisition mandates included: 1) advising on the creation and private placement financing for iSeeMedia Inc., following a management led buy out of the web imaging delivery and management technologies from California-based Napster Inc. (formerly Roxio/MGI Software). 2) sourcing required equity financing to complete the merger of OrthoNetx Inc. and EyeDynamics Inc. to create AccuNetx Inc., a medical device technology company.
	Investment banking activities over the last five years involve both Canadian and US based privately and publicly owned companies, primarily in the technology sectors. Wingate has raised some $100 million in related financial transactions.