Beechtree Capital || Beechtree Companies

	Nexsan Technologies Founded in 1999, Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of next generation energy efficient disk-based storage systems designed for the long-term storage of digital information. Nexsan’s hardware and software systems are ideal for storing and archiving information commonly referred to as “fixed content.” This includes medical images, email, business documents, video images, research data, and various digital media. The Nexsan solutions enable organizations to store and access the growing amounts of fixed content over longer periods of time, while meeting evolving business and compliance requirements in a “green” environment. Nexsan has sold its product exclusively through a select, global network of VARs, OEM’s, and system integrators and deployed over 16,000 systems worldwide to more then 5000 end users. Nexsan installs systems in small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large global enterprises around the world.

	Employment Support Services, Inc. In 1995, Beechtree Capital principals made three acquisitions in the relatively new field of outsourced employer administrative services, rolling up these companies into Employer Support Services, Inc. (ESSI). This innovative company had limited strategy and sales in 1995, operating within a new high-growth industry. ESSI is today the largest drug, steroid and alcohol test and related employment service operation in the Southwestern United States. The company is consistently profitable. In 2006, the company expanded into the steroid testing arena and other areas of employment services. The company’s present valuation exceeds $30 million.

	XOS Technologies, Inc. Until recently, professional and college coaches and athletic directors created game exchange and coaching videotapes for training, coaching and overnight courier distribution to competitors and other agents by the use of video tape or DVDs. There were relatively little online technologies used in this area. The content was created for a limited market, and there were time and cost inefficiencies in content creation and distribution using traditional video production facilities and national couriers like Fedex. In 1999, a Florida entrepreneur recognized the opportunity to create a new industry for digital sports-oriented content development and distribution through the Internet. Beechtree principals helped launch this business enterprise as a "new media company" branded as XOS Technologies. XOS Technologies, Inc. has become the leading provider of innovative sports technology, including digital video coaching tools, facilities design and integration, content distribution and platform solutions for sports organizations throughout North America. XOS solutions provide over 700 professional and collegiate sports organizations with video, data, teaching and fan management technologies. XOS Technologies’ products and services are used by teams in the NFL, AFL, CFL, NBA, WNBA, NHL, MLB, MLS and NCAA. Following Beechtree’s 2003 initial investment in a predecessor of XOS at a company valuation of $500,000, the company has sold a division for $60 million dollars (12 times revenue) and continues to operate its sports technology division which has a present valuation believed to be in excess of $30 million.

	Brooklyn Equities Founded in 2007 and based out of Manhattan, NY, Brooklyn Equities (BE) is a luxury goods holding company that is acquiring a portfolio of emerging, undervalued, and undercapitalized micro luxury brands. BE acts as a partner and an accelerator to these brands, offering a shared backend manufacturing and distribution model, corporate and marketing direction and equity and/or debt financing, in return for equity interests and controlling rights. BE also acts as branding specialists with their partners, able to locate and place their brands into new markets where they can thrive and sell. Partnerships include World Marketing Corp, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, HSN, and QVC.

	American Tower Corporation Beechtree Capital founders initially created this new company in its new industry and, with associated investors, participated in and led the acquisition of the predecessor of AMT for $8.2 million in 1987. $500 thousand of this amount was equity, and the balance was senior and subordinated debt. At that time, the company, a Texas-based owner and operator of approximately 32 radio towers, was a relatively unknown, undeveloped business. The challenge was to establish and finance a company in an unknown and untested industry, to create and market the corporate brand and services, to create institutional financial interest in communication towers as an industry, to grow internally and through numerous acquisitions, to end operating losses, generate sustainable annual operating income and positive cash flow. Beechtree Capital founders and associated investors helped usher in the era of wireless communication by developing the radio tower industry. The U.S. cable, paging, cellular and other industries could not have grown to their present heights without the vision and pioneering efforts of these two Beechtree principals. In June 1998, Beechtree Capital and partners merged with American Radio Systems, forming AMT, a New York Stock Exchange corporation. The company’s value at the time of merger was approximately $1 billion. Today, AMT is the premier U.S. owner and operator of wireless and broadcast communications sites with over 32,000 owned or managed sites throughout the world. George Weiss and related partners remain stockholders of the corporation whose present market value exceeds $17 billion.

	Verifides Verifides is a digital security software company that offers a chipset, software, and server solution that controls how digital information can be manipulated when on a users computer. The Verifides solution can be tailored to meet a variety of threat levels allowing the Company to deploy highly secure hardware/software solutions (including tamper-proof devices) for extremely sensitive information to be completely controlled, updated, and if necessary destroyed by the originator – forever. With the Verifides solution viewing, editing, printing, sending, playing digital media, and all other dispositions of a digital file are always under the control of the person or organization that originally sent the file. Verifides was founded in 2006.

	Strategic Labor Inc. Strategic Labor is on the forefront of research and development for optimizing complex employee schedules in the field of enterprise software. The present Strategic Workforce Scheduler was introduced 3 years ago now serves customers in casinos, energy companies, hospital, transportation companies, hotels, and manufacturing plants. The software has evolved to include flexible demand-based forecast scheduling, schedule optimization, schedule modeling, leave management, and labor analytics. All of these modules have come from working with customers to determine what they need today – and what they need tomorrow.