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AdEPT Technology Group PLC

Adept Technology Group PLC operates as a non-network based telecommunications company. The Company provides fixed line calls, line rental, telephony, and broadband to business and residential customers. Adept Technology Group PLC serves health, education, and government sectors in the United Kingdom.

EPIC:	ADT
Market:	LSE:ADT
52-week High/Low:	430.00p / 256.20p
Sector:	Telecommunications Equipment
Market Cap:	87.70M
Website:	www.adept.co.uk

AdEPT Technology Group PLC

www.adept.co.uk

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Adept Telecom PLC - Elevator Pitch

Richard Burbage, Unified Communications Director for Adept Telecom PLC (LON:ADT), pitches the company to investors. For more information visit www.adept-telecom.co.uk

Big picture - Why invest in AdEPT Technology Group PLC

AdEPT surpasses recently raised expectations

July 10 2018

"The excellent result for this year was delivered through a combination of strategic acquisition and organic contract wins, maintaining margins on customer contracts and maintaining high levels of operational efficiency."

AdEPT Technology Group PLC Snapshot

Current statement

Adept Technology Group PLC is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and is one of the UK’s largest independent non-network based suppliers of telecommunication and data products in
the UK with sales in excess of £20 million per annum and 20,000 customers.

Adept Technology Group PLC is widely recognised as one of the leading independent multi-site multi-product specialists in fixed line telecoms with over 700 multi-site customers. AdEPT has around 20,000 fixed line
telecoms customers taking a full range of telecoms products including calls, line rental, mobile, broadband, data connectivity and VoIP.

As at December 2013, Adept Technology Group PLC has completed the acquisition and integration of 18 telecom businesses, all of which have been successfully integrated and now trade under the Adept Technology Group PLC brand.

Current operations

Products

Nebula Solutions

Avaya Unified Communications

IT Support

Data Connectivity and Networks

Management

Ian Fishwick

Chief Executive

Ian has been a telecommunications MD/ CEO for over 25 years working in areas as diverse as secure battlefield communications and cable television. He has been running companies providing voice telephone service to the public since 1995. “I’ve learned over the years that customers need a small number of things doing very well to keep them satisfied. Fair prices. Reliability. Accurate bills. And the ability to speak to a friendly helpful person who’ll sort out their problem if something goes wrong.”

	Ian was awarded UK – Game Changer of The Year 2017 by Acquisition Finance Magazine.
	Acquisition International magazine named Ian as London CEO of the Year 2017 after completing 3 acquisitions in 9 months.
.	Ian was named as European Chief Executive of the Year 2016 by Corporate Vision magazine
	Ian was awarded UK Chief Executive of the Year 2016 by TMT (Technology Media Telecoms) magazine.
	In November 2016 Ian had the great honour of being appointed to the Cabinet Office SME Panel where he will be representing the Telecoms industry. His aim is to help the Government achieve their target of having 33% of all government spend with small and medium sized enterprises by 2020.
	Ian is also Commercial Director of Innopsis, the specialist trade association for Telecom suppliers to the Public Sector. In this role Ian has been elected by his industry peers to lead negotiations with government bodies on issues that affect all of the association’s members. The vast bulk of all spend by the public sctor goes to one of Innopsis’ members.

Roger Wilson

Chairman

Roger has worked in telecommunications since 1993. In addition to being the first Managing Director for Telewest’s residential consumer business in the UK he spent 3 years in Poland successfully building a business for American investors. He was Managing Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association until January 2006.

John Swaite

Finance Director

John joined AdEPT in March 2008 as Group financial controller and was promoted to finance director and the Board in January 2009. Prior to joining AdEPT, John spent more than nine years with one of the UK’s leading accounting firms, Crowe Clark Whitehill LLP (CCW). In his role as senior corporate finance manager at CCW, John was responsible for all aspects of financial due diligence and transaction support on mergers, acquisitions, flotations and subsequent public offerings with transaction values up to £120m.

Dusko Lukic

Non-Executive Director

Dusko has worked for over 20 years as an institutional stockbroker covering UK and Continental European equity markets with City firms Wood Mackenzie, Salomon Brothers, Schroder Securities and Cazenove. Whilst at Cazenove, Dusko was the director responsible for pan-European equity sales to German institutions. In 2005 Dusko founded Draganfly Investments Ltd, an AIM-quoted investment company, and in 2006 was the co-founder of Intrinsic Capital LLP, a smaller company investment boutique. Dusko is Chairman of the Company’s remuneration and audit committees.

Richard Burbage

Unified Communications Director

Richard Burbage was promoted to the Board in July 2016. He began his career in telecoms working with financial institutions and offshore oil and gas companies supplying telex and facsimile machines. In the early 90s Richard established his first business which, after nine successful years, was sold to the industry leader, Genesis Telecommunications plc. After a few years with Genesis Richard left to establish a new non-competitive business, Centrix Limited, which after 15 year’s continued growth and having become one of the most profitable businesses in the sector was acquired by AdEPT in 2015. Richard has over 25 years’ experience in telecoms and continues to grow the Fleet division with increasing success in Cloud, Hosting, IP Telephony and Unified Communications.

Christopher Kingsman

Non-Executive Director

Christopher brings a broad range of experience from investing in and being involved with a number of public and private companies across different sectors. A graduate of Cambridge University, he started his career with Fidelity Investments and has managed a hedge fund and family office. He is the principal of a private Swiss investment group, executive chairman of Aranca, a global research, analytics and advisory firm based in India, and is a director of a number of private companies. Through Greenwood Investments Ltd, he has been the second largest shareholder of AdEPT since 2011.

Major Shareholders

Securities information

The Company’s shares trade on AIM (London Stock Exchange). There are no restrictions on the transfer of the Company’s AIM Securities. The Company’s issued share capital is 23,701,832 shares. There are no shares held in treasury. Significant shareholders last updated on 7 August 2017:

	Shares	Per cent
Executors to the estate of Christopher Fishwick*	5,000,400	21.1
Greenwood Investments	4,000,000	16.9
Downing LLP	2,769,552	11.7
Canaccord	1,197,932	5.0
Fiske & Co Client Account	1,055,600	4.5
Octopus Investments	923,117	3.9
Business Growth Fund	708,112	3.0
Ian Fishwick	695,977	3.0