Global Crown Capital Hires Veteran Telecom Analyst

SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
Global Crown Capital, LLC ("GCC"), a San Francisco based
research-driven boutique investment firm announced that Tero Kuittinen
joined the firm as Senior Executive Director, Global Equity Research.
Mr. Kuittinen joined GCC from Avian Securities, where he was a
managing director in charge of the telecom research. Over the past
decade, Mr. Kuittinen has become one of the most widely recognized
Finnish experts on the mobile handset industry.

Mr. Kuittinen began his telecom career in 1999 as one of the
founders of a pioneering mobile entertainment start-up company,
SpringToys, in Helsinki. He worked as a senior strategist in the
mobile content sector and as a telecom research analyst in one of
Scandinavia's largest banking groups, Osuuspankki, until 2003. That
year he joined the telecom research group of Paul Sagawa at Sanford C.
Bernstein in New York; Mr. Kuittinen has continued working on Wall
Street covering the telecom sector since then.

Mr. Kuittinen is quoted regularly in the European and US media and
gives presentations at telecom conferences from Los Angeles and Las
Vegas to Dublin and Helsinki. He taps into the collective intelligence
of his extensive network of start-up, operator and financial sector
contacts in Europe and Asia - a network of mobile handset
professionals he began constructing back in 1996. He received a
Master's degree in biochemistry and was enrolled in a neurobiology
Ph.D. program at the University of Helsinki when the mobile telecom
revolution sweeping Finland persuaded him to change career track.

Rani Jarkas, Global Crown Capital's Managing Partner and Chief
Investment Officer said, "We are establishing global coverage of the
telecom industry and creating one of the best research teams on the
Street. Tero is deeply entrenched in the telecom industry, passionate
about the space and well-connected in Europe."

"I am very enthusiastic about the opportunity to create a dynamic
mobile telecom team at Global Crown Capital. We intend to provide
breath and depth to our scope of telecom research - encompassing
mobile handset, operator, infrastructure and software sectors," said
Mr. Kuittinen.

About Global Crown Capital, LLC

Global Crown Capital, LLC is a research-focused boutique
investment firm broadly and deeply focused on technology. The firm
specializes in Global Equity Research, Institutional Sales and
Trading, Prime Brokerage, Global Wealth Management, Asset Management,
Investment Banking and Corporate Services. GCC is a member of
FINRA/NFA/SIPC. For more information please visit at
www.globalcrowncapital.com.

Global Crown Capital, LLC
Helen Simms, 415-354-7183
helen.simms@globalcrowncapital.com

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