SageGroup Strategies Forms Liaison Group to Interface With Angel Investors Regarding Troubled and Untroubled Companies

Silicon Valley, CA; New York City, NY; and Los Angeles, CA -- April 18, 2005. SageGroup Strategies announces that it has formed a major Liaison Group to interface with angel investors regarding troubled and untroubled companies.

"Angel investors" are a major part of the financing and business development portions of the business world. Angel investors specialize in providing capital, capabilities, relationships, and other resources to young entrepreneurial companies, benefitting not only the companies themselves but also the related communities, marketplaces, industries, and often society in general. As a group within the U.S.A. alone, the angel investors invest many billions of dollars annually into promising companies. Angel investors and SageGroup Strategies are in very complementary fields, with several mutually-beneficial ways to work together. Therefore, SageGroup has now formed a strong Angel Investors Liaison Group to interact well with the angel investors community and related entities.

"One of the major benefits to angel investors in working with SageGroup is that SageGroup often encounters excellent opportunities to be referred to angel investors," stated Craig Kaufman, a SGS Angel Investors Liaison Group Co-Manager and a financier and angel investor with very strong experience with angel investors, investment banking firms, and other financing entities. "Often, these excellent early-stage companies are the larger, stronger, larger-management-team-run successor companies of SGS clients where SGS has resolved certain problems and weaknesses, then restructured and reorganized the ongoing company to move forward well."

"Another major benefit to angel investors who work with SGS is that angel investors sometimes encounter troubled companies that need SGS's high-quality Professional Troubled-Company Specialist services," continued Richard Taylor, another SGS Angel Investors Liaison Group member who is very experienced in financing, general management, financial management, and troubled-company turnaround services. "Sometimes these troubled companies are those in which angel investors have already invested and are trying to save and protect their investments. In other cases the angel investors have not yet invested and would like SageGroup to improve the situations first. In all cases the angel investors can also earn attractive referral fees from SageGroup."

"When angel investors and SageGroup develop mutually-attractive high-quality business relationships with each other, there also can be other benefits to each entity," added Jesus Arce, another SGS Angel Investors Liaison Group member with much experience with the financing of early-stage companies. "Each relationship can expand and become more enhanced in various ways in the best interests of the angel investors, SageGroup, and the entrepreneurial company."

Randy Ross, another SGS Angel Investors Liaison Group member with strong entrepreneurial and financing experience, explained, "SageGroup Strategies is an especially good complementary fit with angel investors. Not only is SGS focused on resolving the troubled company's serious troubles and weaknesses, but it is also concurrently interested and involved in a) reorganizing the situation in the best way to move forward; and b) proactively helping the ongoing company to move forward. As the world's largest firm of its type, SageGroup brings major capabilities, credibility, resources, relationships, and other strengths to the situation."

SageGroup specializes in providing high-quality professional troubled-company services to troubled companies. In doing so, SageGroup works closely with other professional entities that provide complementary services, such as angel investors, other financing entities, business brokers, law firms, CPA firms, insurance agencies, collection agencies, and many others.

SageGroup is the largest Professional Troubled-Company Specialist firm in the U.S.A. and the world, with over sixty offices in the U.S.A., Canada, Asia, and Europe, and with several more pending offices. The Firm specializes in helping troubled companies and other complex situations. Its main objectives include to: a) resolve their serious problems; b) reorganize and restructure them in an optimal manner; c) obtain sufficient financing; and/or d) grow and develop the ongoing companies in a positive appropriate manner.

SageGroup offers a powerful large group of professionals who are experts at helping companies get out of trouble and move forward. SageGroup's staff includes over 600 highly-qualified specialists, including: financing and financial experts; turnaround experts; troubled-company specialists; marketing specialists; international business experts; attorneys; strategists; CPAs; corporate development specialists; acquisition and strategic alliance experts; corporate executives; operations experts; global sourcing specialists; industry specialists; technologists; and many others.

SageGroup's staff has been involved in hundreds of difficult company situations, including: refinancings; turnarounds; crisis management; debtor programs; spin-outs; restructurings and reorganizations; managed wind-downs and shut-downs; and transitions into being larger, stronger, better-financed, and stronger-management-team-run ongoing companies.

The SGS Angel Investors Liaison Group has at least one representative in each SGS Office in the United States. For maximum confidentiality, initial inquiries from angel investors groups and troubled companies can be directed to Larry Lindsey, a SGS Managing Director and one of the Liaison Group Co-Managers, at SGS's International Coordination Office, phone number (510) 865-2480.