Fortress Financial Group, Inc. - Appointment

Company appoints Mr Jack Chang as a Consultant
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--Fortress Financial Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: FFGO) confirms that
the Company has appointed Mr Jack Chang as a Consultant to the Company
with immediate effect. Mr Chang has entered into a five year contract
with the Company, a copy of which is being filed shortly; on a Form
8-K with the SEC.

The Form 8-K filing will contain all of the details of Mr Chang's
remuneration and incentive package with the Company.

Mr Chang is a specialist in the development and implementation of
International Debit and Credit Card systems; and will be developing,
managing and overseeing the Company's launch of at least ten new
MasterCard Debit Card products; in and during the next two months.

Mr Chang brings his vast experience and expertise; primarily in
financial service consumer products and "cutting edge" payment
solution technologies to our Company, all of which will be "fast
tracked" thereby ensuring that our Company expands its financial
service interests and its product range, at a very rapid pace.

Mr. Chang is a businessman, an inventor and an entrepreneur with
over 25 years of business and technology experience across multiple
industries. He has the proven track record of conceptualizing how
technologies can benefit the well being of consumers and businesses
and then transform his visions into realities. Many of his past
endeavors, including the Automated Teller Machine (Mr. Chang is the
developer and patent co-holder of the ATM) still have profound impacts
on consumers, businesses and the society.

As a multi-disciplined individual, he has held CEO and other
corporate-level positions in sales, corporate development, and
technology in large and small corporations. His past customers
included consumers and businesses at large as well as some of the
largest of the Global 500 companies, including Citibank, Coca-Cola
Enterprises, American Express, Sears, Visa, EDS, and NationsBank/Bank
of America, etc., for whom he had also provided strategic planning and
business advisory support.

Mr. Chang has a BSEE degree in Electronic Engineering from Purdue
University, a MBA in Marketing/Sales from Southern Methodist
University and had done PhD studies in MIS (Management Information
System) at University of Texas - Dallas Extension.

Mr Chang's biography reads as follows:

Docutel Corporation (1969 - 1977)

In early 1970's he started worked for Docutel Corporation.
Starting out as an electronic engineer, he became a project manager
then Director of research and Development and then Major Account
Sales.

He was involved and was responsible in the development of most of
Docutel's products during his tenure. Since 1974, he participated and
directly involved with the sales of hundreds of ATM's, including
hundreds of travelers check dispensers to American Express. He was
also instrumental in the sale of over 1,000 ATM's in Europe.

Quadstar Corporation (1977 -1984) ; President

In 1977, he was offered a consulting assignment to design and
develop an electronic payment transaction switching and processing
system for American Express. He also developed plans and implemented
systems mostly for banks and credit card processing service providers.

In 1980, he saw an opportunity to build ATM and POS transaction
switching and processing systems as a business because of the banking
deregulation. Very quickly, he sold the idea of first such system to
Bank of Ohio and then to a series of other financial and retail
institutions. Within three years, Quadstar grew to 150 employees and
sold 110 systems worldwide. In 1984, he sold Quadstar to Citicorp,
then Quadstar's largest customer.

Citicorp/Quadstar (1984 - Late 1986); President

From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Chang was the head of a Citicorp company
with global marketing and sales responsibilities. His responsibilities
included evaluating the services, assets and intellectual properties
of various Citicorp operating entities for potential revenue
opportunities then develop plans and implementations to effect the
opportunities. The revenue generation plans include design and or
implementing innovative service delivery infrastructures, such as
encryption, satellite and wireless networks.

His marketing and sales endeavors required him to organize and
manage a team of U.S. based marketing managers and sales
representative as well as to coordinate sales activities with regional
Citicorp representatives in five continents of North America, South
America, Europe, Asia and Australia. During this period he traveled
extensively to close major sales and interacted with high-placed
prospective executives of Global 1000 companies.

Itac Corporation (1987 - 1990) ; President

In 1987, Mr. Chang foresaw the use of PC's as the platform for
bank teller and platform systems. He arranged with Citicorp to leave
his then post and formed Itac Corporation. He led his high technology
team in the design effort, and within one year, Itac developed an easy
to use Windows application generator and database system by 1988.

For connectivity for the developed Windows applications, Itac also
developed and marketed one of the earliest LAN-gateway systems capable
of easy connection of LANs to NCR and Unisys mainframes, as well as
IBM host systems.

In 1989, using the applications generator and LAN-gateway, Itac
created and marketed one of the earliest PC-based bank teller and
platform systems. Itac sold the teller/platform systems to several
financial institutions. In 1990, ISC/Bunker Ramo (later on became part
of Olivetti Business Systems), then the second largest teller/platform
system provider, acquired the product line from Itac.

ISS (International Shared Solutions), Inc. 1991 -1998; President

ISS was a technology and business consulting company. To enhance
its consulting activities, ISS developed, in 1991, a BPR (Business
Process Re-design) tool that can analyze business processes and make
redesign recommendations.

Mr. Chang and his team of technical and business professionals
performed business process re-design and management and technology
consulting services to Fortune 500 companies. The consulting
assignments included:

-- Five year strategic operations and technology plan for
NationsBank

-- A secure Internet-based credit card transaction system for
Visa

-- Smart Card marketing and deployment strategy for VeriGem
(Joint venture of Verifone and Gemplus)

-- Product market strategy for VeriFone, the POS maker

-- An electronic payment system marketing and deployment strategy
for Unisys

-- Intelligent intranet system for Coca Cola Enterprises

-- Enterprise network strategies for Deluxe Checks and Ceridian
Employer Services

-- Data security plans for Deluxe Checks and Ceridian Employer
Services

-- Internet browser-based payroll data submission system for
Ceridian Employer Services

-- Wireless strategies for EDS

Global-Vision, Inc. (1999 - 2007); President

In 1999, Mr. Chang decided to be involved heavily with the
Internet and wireless technologies and re-incorporated his operation
as Global-Vision. The software products developed under the
Global-Vision banner include:

-- High volume Laser printer control systems that can increase
the printing speed and reduce the need for font and image
management for most print processes

-- Developed an overall knowledge management system that combined
the need for paper printing, Electronic Bill Presentment,
information archiving and viewing.

-- Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) and Interactive Voice
Response (IVR) Systems - Including integrating CTI/IVR systems
with the Internet

-- An advanced Internet/intranet authoring tool (the Silverado)
that can be used to create not only sophisticated Web sites
but also intelligent business process workflow systems.

In early 2000, Global-Vision began working on wireless application
potentials with Nippon Columbia, which represents an alliance of
industrial giants that includes Hitachi, Sanyo Electric, Fujitsu and
Infineon (the semiconductor part of Siemens of Germany). The result of
the collaboration resulted in a marketing rights agreement of a
semiconductor chip containing a smart card computer, a cryptographic
engine and capable of high-density storage. Mr. Chang's goal is to
incorporate the chip in various devices (such as cell phones) for
various applications, including a cell phone activated wireless
payment system.

AEFT (Advanced EFT) (2004 - Present); President

Since the 1990's Jack Chang has been developing plans to satisfied
mass consumer needs on a global scale. With the understanding that
most of the 6.4 billion consumers in the world are un-banked or
under-banked, he realized that the Prepaid Debit Card system will soon
be the "Prevalent Retail Payment System of the World". With the
objective to capitalize on and capture the window of opportunity and
the ensuing market share, Jack Chang created AEFT in 2004 to be the
business developer and wholesale marketer of advanced Electronic
Payment Systems products.

AEFM currently has product development joint venture and alliance
relationships with payment system processors and banks in Asia,
Africa, Europe and the U.S. AEFT also has a network of globally
distributed sales agents and licensees to market its currently
available International Prepaid Debit Cards, prepaid healthcare and
insurances benefits, international money transfer service, check
cashing and clearing service and Merchant Account Service.

AEFM's revenue model strives to create both initial and long-term
recurring commission revenue streams from a global customer base
through mass distribution marketing channels. Its customer base
includes businesses and banks distributed across all regions of the
world. AEFT also performs payment system consulting services to
selected international clients.

Fortress Financial Group, Inc. will be working closely with AEFM
on its product launches and the utilization of the proprietary and
"cutting edge" technologies developed by AEFM.

Alan Santini, the Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Financial
Group, Inc. commented "that he was honored to be working with Jack
Chang on a day to day basis and that the products already introduced
to our Company by Jack will be rapidly implemented into our now very
fast growing portfolio of MasterCard Debit Cards and other payment
solutions products". Alan Santini added that "Jack's invaluable
connections and experience have already resulted in new and
renegotiated deals being brought to the Company, all of which will
have an enormous impact upon on our immediate profits from existing
and soon to be introduced products and technologies." Alan Santini
added "that with the Company's US$1 billion asset base comprising of
quoted Gold Mining stocks, held by the Company as a passive
investment; the Company would have no need to raise the considerable
funds planned for the extensive Marketing and Advertising of the
Company's products, commencing within the next few weeks."

About Fortress Financial Group, Inc.

Fortress Financial Group, Inc. is primarily engaged in the issuing
and marketing of prepaid debit and credit card and related payment
solution activities. It has just announced the acquisition of
Moneyworx, Inc., a reseller of MasterCard prepaid USA Domestic and
International Prepaid Debit Cards. The Company will have no less than
twelve individually branded and tailored Debit Cards within the next
two months.

Fortress Financial Group, Inc. will be launching its own label
"Fortress" International Debit Card in the first quarter of 2008.

The Company operates through Fortress Card Solutions, Inc. and
Moneyworx, Inc. The Company will be shortly be establishing an office
in Nassau, Bahamas; primarily to service our High Net Worth "offshore"
cardholder base.

Fortress Financial Group, Inc. (formerly Great West Gold, Inc.),
was a gold mining exploration stage company, engaged in the
acquisition and exploration of mining properties in the United States.
The Company retained these Gold Mining Exploration interests as
portfolio assets; as it intended to extract value from these assets
through a future "spin off" or a sale. The Company has now disposed of
its interests in the "Ambassador", "Golden Eagle" and "Mockingbird"
Gold Mining Exploration properties to Hunt Gold Corporation
(PINKSHEETS : HGLC); and holds approximately 48% of Hunt Gold
Corporation shares of outstanding Common Stock, as an investment.

The Company retains it interest in the "South Copperstone", and
"Bouse" Gold Mining Exploration properties, at this time. It is
expected that these two remaining interests will be exchanged for
shares of Common Stock in a USA Gold Mining & Exploration Company,
within the next six weeks.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such
forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
"Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans,
results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as
"may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected,"
"anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned
that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and
uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or
results to differ materially from those projected in the
forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results
may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified
in a companies' annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings
made by such company with the SEC.

Fortress Financial Group, Inc.
Alan Santini, 954-840-6961
Chief Executive Officer
investor@fortfinancegroup.com

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