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September 21, 2015

CEPRES Appoints Karl-Heinz Floether and Iain Stokes to Advisory Board

MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 21 — CEPRES has announced that Karl-Heinz Floether (ex-International Chairman Accenture) and Iain Stokes (ex-Head of EMEA Private Equity State Street Bank) are appointed to the Company’s Advisory Board. Both are respected thought-leaders in the future of FinTech and will help set strategy to continue CEPRES’ rapid growth in North America, Europe and Asia. Floether was previously Chief Executive Financial Services and Group Chief Executive Technology & Delivery at Accenture, and is member of Supervisory Boards for Deutsche Boerse AG and Commerzbank AG. Stokes was previously Group Managing Director at Mourant and Senior Manager Private Equity at Barings and holds non-Executive Directorships with prominent finance firms.

“Mr. Floether’s and Mr. Stokes deep experience as industry leaders in finance and technology are complementary to each other and the CEPRES management team,” said Dr. Daniel Schmidt, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, CEPRES. “We will benefit from their experience as former heads of global corporations to help us grow as an international FinTech company.”

“I am very excited to be working with the CEPRES team”, said Floether. “CEPRES is bringing investment intelligence and connectivity direct to the desks of institutional investors in all regions of the world. Combining big data analytics and a confidential investment network will revolutionize and expand private equity markets the way Fintech did for financial markets in the 1990’s.”

Stokes added “CEPRES is the logical step for the private equity industry to mature. Achieving transparency with confidentiality and providing certainty of outcomes are serious limitations for institutional investors. CEPRES pulls back the curtain to help both GPs and LPs grow and benefit from this expanding financial market. I am very pleased to help shape the future with CEPRES”

About CEPRES

CEPRES is the global leader in investment decision analytics and expert solutions for private capital markets. Our interactive, online platform synthesizes 40 years of investment expertize with deep data mining of $1.4 trillion of funds and investee companies. Decision makers gain true insights on performance and risk attribution that drive investment alpha and so help underwrite investment strategies. Institutional Investors (LPs) and Fund Managers (GPs) interact together on one platform. LPs forecast their portfolio outcomes, screen the market and enhance due diligence. GPs confidentially benchmark their track record, network with fitting capital sources and prove their alpha to investors. For more information visit www.cepres.com.

Source: CEPRES

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