About Northern Ventures

Capabilities

Northern Ventures Corporation (NVC) capabilities are directed towards improving the growth, profitability, and operating effectiveness of client organizations, bringing new technology to the marketplace, and assisting with the formation,capitalization, management and expansion of companies with excellent potential.

While NVC management and operating expertise can be brought to bear in many fields of business activity and technology, the Corporation's personnel and associates have excellent experience in the areas of Computer Hardware and Software; Biotechnology, Genomics, Healthcare and Drug Development; Communications and Electronics; Energy; Defense/Aerospace and general business development. NVC works with new and emerging companies, as well as those with sales of over $1 billion per year.

The capabilities of NVC are augmented by its contact with an extensive network of highly qualified national and international marketing, product design, graphic design, and engineering firms.

Although it is standard practice to tailor the services offered to the needs of a particular client, generally, they can be broken down into four broad categories: Management Consulting, International Sales and Marketing, Venture Management, and Venture Capital. A brief, but not all-inclusive, description of these services follows:

Management Consulting

In the Management Consulting field, NVC provides services to assist organizations with their growth and strategic planning; sales, marketing and branding; product development; financing; mergers and acquisitions; quality programs; and general organizational and management improvement. For the established medium to large-sized company that is seeking to improve its growth posture, NVC has the capability to develop short and long-range plans and associated action programs. NVC can find suitable acquisition candidates, initiate merger and acquisition discussions, as well as successfully negotiate these situations. NVC has the capability to formulate sales and marketing plans and related action programs, as well as to assist with the actual marketing approaches and required presentation geared to opening up new business opportunities.

For the small to medium-sized company, NVC can assist in the determination of objectives for product development, and provide a fresh approach to the identification of appropriate marketing strategies as well as potential customers. NVC can work with the Chief Executive and/or senior management to develop a business operations plan that integrates the five important elements of business growth: Product, Marketing, Branding, Finance, and Management.

International Sales and Marketing

In all of its programs, NVC has the ability to undertake international and domestic programs. Senior NVC personnel have a great deal of experience in the export trade field, and have participated in major programs of selling equipment, and systems in the American market that were manufactured in overseas countries as well as selling U.S. technological equipment abroad. Consequently, NVC has the capability to represent overseas companies and governments in the U.S. that are seeking to sell their equipment to agencies of the U.S. government, or as subsystems to major industrial prime contractors. NVC also provides assistance to overseas companies that are seeking technology on a license, joint venture or acquisition basis, and in formulating offset purchase agreements.

In all of these activities involving representation of either an American company abroad or an overseas organization in the U.S., NVC personnel play an active role in achieving the program objectives by working closely with pertinent executives in the client organization. The key personnel affiliated with NVC have maintained a network of close contacts in government and industry around the world, particularly in Europe and the Far East, which are extremely helpful in expediting a particular program.

Venture Management

NVC personnel have the skills to assist in the formative stages of a new technologically oriented company by writing Business Plans; evaluating the service, product or process to be offered; assessing market potential; and providing help in securing appropriate financing in the form of venture capital of institutional financing. NVC, by virtue of its excellent contacts, arranges the introduction of companies desiring to go public with well-known, reputable, investment banking firms. For selected situations, NVC also furnishes management, administrative, and technical skills required in startup and emerging companies.

Venture Capital

Since its inception, NVC has been involved in raising capital for client companies. This activity relates to both startup situations and established organization. In order to facilitate the services we provide, NVC is in the process of forming a separate company whose primary mission is to supply capital to promising situations in technology fields.

This company, as presently envisaged, will be a publicly held venture capital organization and will incorporate some features not in being in other financial organizations today. The key personnel in the company comprise a prestigious group of individuals whose experience guarantees the future success of the company. The new company will be completely separate from NVC, but will have a working relationship with NVC to facilitate the availability of management consulting services.

As this new company is implemented, further information will be put forth on the opportunities it will present to the worldwide community to make venture investments in promising technology. It is estimated that the new publicly held venture capital fund will be operating in the first few months of the year 2001.