Fusion Capital Partners Inc.

In the fall of 2001 , Peter van der Velden and Mike Middleton founded FUSION Capital Partners, an OSC-licensed limited market dealer. Our objective was to establish a new standard for Canadian corporate finance boutiques. FUSION brings to bear a rare combination of operating company, venture capital and investment banking experience on the challenges and financing requirements of our clients. As a result, we have the relationships, skills and understanding necessary to meet the distinct financial and advisory needs of emerging Canadian growth companies in the technology, specialty manufacturing and consumer sectors. We are entrepreneurs in our own right; we understand the challenges of building, financing and managing growth; and, like our clients, we are committed to building our business by doing the right things with the right people.Rather than pursing the “volume” approach to transactions, FUSION focuses on the quality, not the quantity of our relationships. Our goal is to identify and work with Canadian growth companies led by experienced, successful, committed, high-caliber, entrepreneurial management teams who share our values of integrity, ethics and fairness, and who are seeking capital to expand their businesses organically or through acquisitions; recapitalize their companies; and/or gain partial liquidity for themselves or their shareholders. Building businesses is the responsibility of our clients, guiding them through the capital markets is ours. We look to build long-term win/win relationships with our clients, raising money to help them grow their businesses, helping them to understand the transactions, determining fair valuations for their companies and bringing them together with sources of capital on a timely basis.FUSION has pulled together a highly experienced team, both within the company and through its advisory relationships. This team provides a level of expertise and an ability to execute transactions not previously available to Canadian high-growth companies.