EVF II Advisory Board Infocast would like to express its appreciation for advice offered by our Energy Venture Fair Advisory Board Dain Rauscher Wessels (DRWTM) is a knowledge-driven equity capital markets group dedicated to providing investment banking and brokerage services in the Consumer, Energy, Services, healthcare, and Technology sectors. We concentrate our research on focused groups of emerging high-growth companies within these sectors. This discipline allows us to generate creative investment banking, equity sales, and equity trading ideas for our clients. Energy Central is the leading professional portal for the electric power industry. Founded in 1995, Energy Central delivers news, information, reports, data and more to energy professionals worldwide through direct e-mail services and a single site on the World Wide Web (www.energycentral.com). As the industry leader in content aggregation, Energy Central is the direct conduit to more energy professionals on a daily basis than any other portal. It is a powerful marketing channel for companies that create and distribute electric power information and a valuable resource for energy professionals in search of mission-critical news, events and information. Through the deployment of key information e-commerce technologies, Energy Central is positioning today to be a critical information e-marketing and sales channel for the power industry. Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. was formed in 1998 to take advantage of the changes that were occurring in the U.S. energy industry as a result of deregulation, convergence of gas and electricity, consolidation and introduction of new technologies. Haddington is unique among Private Equity Funds for two reasons: 1. Haddington is willing to take development risks if the market is such that it is more profitable to "build" rather than "buy". 2. Haddington's team has actual "hands on" experience with starting and managing operating companies. Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. management team has been together for over 15 years and has over 90 years combined experience in applying technology, marketing, finance and general business skills to earn superior returns for investors. This team has most recently been responsible for the startup and growth of TPC Corporation (NYSE: TPC, sold to PacifiCorp in 1997). The principals are Larry W. Bickle, J. Chris Jones, John A. Strom, M. Scott Jones and Robert D. Kincaid. Hamilton Robinson LLC (HRCo) is a private investment firm founded in 1984 and based in Stamford, Connecticut. HRCo works with managers and financial partners to make investments in small to medium size growing businesses. Over the past decade, we have managed and organized transactions involving more than 30 companies, including add-on investments, representing an aggregate value of more than $750 million. We seek long term investments in distinctive, smaller middle market companies. We commit our time and resources to investments where there is a vision of a successfully managed company and where a profitable growth strategy can be implemented. We look to become partners in market driven companies where managers have operating latitude and accountability, supported by a pay-for-performance incentive compensation. King & Spalding is one of the preeminent law firms in the world. Its 600 lawyers in Atlanta, New York, Houston and Washington, DC are known for providing domestic and foreign corporations with a full range of legal services at the highest level of competence and responsiveness. Among its Partners are former Attorney General Griffin Bell, former Senator Sam Nunn, and current and former chairs of the National Bond Lawyer's Association, The Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association, and the American College of Trial lawyers. The firm is recognized as one of the leading M&A firms in the United States, and in the representation of private equity capital investors in emerging growth businesses and industries. King & Spalding's energy practice includes the worldwide representation of firms engaged in exploiting, producing and marketing oil, gas, and other hydrocarbons; in gathering and transporting natural gas, LNG, and oil products; in acquiring, restructuring and operating power and thermal energy plants and developing greenfield power projects, including renewable and distributed generation projects, and in marketing and trading electric power. The Firm also represents private equity funds, developers, investment banks and other domestic and international banks and financial institutions that provide capital to energy sector companies. King & Spalding, with Infocast, originated the Energy Venture Fair. Nth Power Technologies is a venture capital firm focused on high-growth investment opportunities arising from the restructuring of the global energy utility marketplace. The fundamental changes taking place in the $300 billion global energy utility industry have given rise to many venture capital investment opportunities, and Nth Power has emerged as a leading source of venture capital for this sector. The firm is managed by a professional investment team with extensive experience growing successful companies in the energy and communication fields and managing venture capital funds. Founded in 1983, SCIENTECH is a fast-growing, worldwide provider of expert services to the energy and telecommunication markets, with related support to government and industry. With offices located throughout the United States and the world, SCIENTECH supplies services and products that enable and enhance client operations by reducing risks, improving performance, minimizing costs and facilitating change. SCIENTECH is positioned in markets with exciting opportunities for capability transfer, technology application, and business growth. The Beacon Group Energy Funds An Affiliate of JPMorgan Partners The Beacon Group Energy Funds (the "Energy Funds"), an affiliate of JPMorgan Partners, is one of the largest private equity investors committed to the energy industry, with over $1.6 billion of capital. The Energy Funds, consisting of The Beacon Group Energy Investment Fund, L.P. ("EF-I") and The Beacon Group Energy Investment Fund II, L.P. ("EF-II"), are designed to make equity investments throughout the energy industry, embracing upstream, midstream and downstream segments, and including power generation and petrochemicals. The Energy Funds have a global scope, with a North American focus. Targeted rates of return on equity investments are in excess of 25%. The Energy Funds' focus includes: Extraction - oil and gas, coa Transportation - pipelines, gathering systems and tankers Processing - refineries, gas processing, petrochemicals End Use - power plants, electric and gas distributions, service stations Power Technology - distributed generation, power quality, storage and management E-commerce - commodities/derivative products exchanges, wholesale, retail Other - oilfield services, chemicals, petrochemicals, drilling companies, financial services A primary emphasis of the Energy Funds has been strategic partnering. The Energy Funds have formed partnerships with many of the leading energy companies, including BP Amoco, ExxonMobil, Shell, The Williams Companies, Schlumberger and Bechtel. EF-I was formed in 1994 with $658 million of committed capital, all of which has been invested or committed to invest in 13 companies. The diverse portfolio of EF-I includes a Russian oil and gas company, an eastern U.S. coal company, a methanol project in Trinidad, a portfolio of oil tankers and a petroleum products pipeline. EF-II was formed in 1998 with approximately $950 million of committed capital. As of February 2001, EF-II has invested or committed to invest over $390 million in 16 companies. EF-II has a particular focus on energy and power technology, including distributed generation, power quality and storage, and e-commerce. The Ridge Group is a management fund focused on early stage ventures in the energy industry. Ridge works with engineers and other operating personnel to take business concepts and develop them into strongly capitalized, stand alone entities. The partners in Ridge all have extensive experience in management, finance, operations, sales and marketing and have started up companies that have grown to over $800 million in size.

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