Craven House Capital

• 17/05/12

  Further Investment in Farm Lands of Africa Inc.

• 04/04/12

  Correction: Interim Results

• 29/02/12

  Interim Results

• 31/01/12

  Total Voting Rights

• 05/01/12

  Investment in Pressfit Holdings Plc

• 17/05/12

  Craven House Capital invests more in Farm Lands of Africa, takes stake to 7.8 pct

• 29/02/12

  Craven House Capital interims mark a period of significant progress, says chairman

• 05/01/12

  Craven House Capital makes further investment in Pressfit Holdings

• 14/10/11

  Craven House Capital: Chinese hydraulics firm pays back US$100,000 convertible loan

Craven House Capital is an investing company, which specialises in assisting profitable small to medium-sized enterprises, from emerging and frontier markets, prepare for trade sales, IPOs or other liquidity events. The Company has already made a number of investments in companies operating in Africa, Asia and South America, and is actively pursuing further potential investment opportunities that are likely to offer the best return to its shareholders.

Our investment strategy focuses on private and publicly-listed companies from under-serviced and fast growing emerging and frontier economies.

Strategy and Objectives

After identifying an opportunity, Craven House Capital works with the management of the company to develop and refine a financing strategy that rewards both the management and shareholders. The chosen solution may be pre-IPO fundraising rounds at increasing valuations, an IPO, a move to a more senior exchange or a trade sale. In all instances we work to increase the international profile of the target company and continue to advise the company post investment.

Objectives

Identify target companies through existing relationships with investment professionals in emerging and frontier markets.

Develop and implement appropriate financing strategy.

Realise investments and build asset base.

Become a frontier market focused merchant bank.

Mark Pajak - Acting Chairman and Executive Director

Mark Pajak has spent most of his professional career in property development and has extensive experience at both the corporate and operational level – most recently as a Regional Director of the largest property developer in the UK (Taylor Wimpey Plc); where he was one of the youngest directors to be appointed in the 130 year history of the group.

Prior to this, Mark spent a number of years in Investor Relations for George Wimpey Plc in a wide ranging capacity which included involvement in M&A activity for the group in the UK and North America; bank and private debt finance; overhaul of the pension scheme; and shareholder and analyst relations.

Mark studied at Oxford University where he obtained both an undergraduate degree and a post-graduate MBA.

Alexandra Eavis - Executive Director

Ms. Eavis structured the change of control of the Company and fundamental change of business that occurred in April/May 2009. Since this time, she has been an Executive Director of the resulting Rule 15 investing company. She was instrumental in securing financing and enabling the Company to substantially implement its investing policy. Between 2006 and 2010, she acted as Director of Corporate Finance at Infinity Corporate Finance Ltd, the corporate finance arm of a small financial services group, where she was in charge of designing bespoke financial products for primarily retail investors. She sat on the board of the public holding company of this group, Maji Capital Partners Group Plc, between 2007 and 2009.

Between 2006 and 2008, she was the director of Topshore Ltd, during which time she managed a £9million development project involving the residential conversion of a Grade 1 listed building in Central London. She established her own consultancy firm, Leone Services Ltd, in 2005, which she continues to run within the small company sector. Since graduating from Oxford University with a degree in experimental psychology in 2001, she has worked in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Balbir Bindra - Non-Executive Director

Mr. Bindra is a Partner and Head of Asia Banking & Finance at international law firm, Gide Loyrette Nouel, in Hong Kong. He has extensive experience in international finance law and has represented corporates, banks, securities houses, hedge funds, private equity groups and other financial institutions with interests in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America. He has been involved in banking, corporate, securities, project and structured finance transactions throughout the world. He is a member of the English and Hong Kong Law Societies. Mr. Bindra holds a LL.B with First Class Honours from the University of Southampton and a MBA from Edinburgh Business School. Mr. Bindra is named as a leading individual in Asia Pacific Legal 500 2008/9, Chambers Legal Directory 2009 for Structured Finance and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance Lawyers 2009-10.

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