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Cinemage Appoints Jim Fitzpatrick To Join Nick De Cotiis As
Corporate Finance Consultant And To Its Corporate Advisory Council
Vancouver, BC (2 April 07) – Cinemage Corporation (TSX-V:CIG) is pleased to
announce the appointment of Jim Fitzpatrick to the Company’s Corporate Advisory
Council "CAC" and to the position of Corporate Finance Consultant "CFC". Under the
terms of the five-year appointment, Mr. Fitzpatrick will bring his extensive market
experience and vast network of investment community relationships to the Company’s
Corporate Finance activities. The Company’s team of professionals now includes: Jim
Fitzpatrick, CAC and CFC; Nick De Cotiis, CAC and CFC; Edgar Froese, CEO,
President, Director and Chairman; and George Lai, CGA, Director and CFO.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is a well-known figure in the Vancouver investment community, with
extensive experience in corporate finance. He is vice-president of LJV Capital Corp.,
specializing in Investment Banking, and Mergers and Acquisitions. Prior to entering the
corporate finance field, Mr. Fitzpatrick founded a chain of forty-nine video stores in
British Columbia. He also enjoyed a career in media, serving for five years as Executive
Producer of KPSP-TV in Palm Springs, California where he worked with Robert Downy,
Jr. and dealt with Mel Gibson. He also dealt with Lion's Gate Studios, and International
Motion Picture Distribution Inc. and its CEO James R. Moder, and was active with the
Palm Springs Film Festival. Mr. Fitzpatrick was a member of ROTC (Regular Officer
Training Corp.) while attending the University of Toronto, and served as Captain with the
Canadian Intelligence Corp. He speaks fluent Russian, French, and Spanish, and is a
member of Point Grey Golf and Country Club.
“Mr. Fitzpatrick adds his exceptional skills in the fine art of social networking to our
corporate finance activities”, said Froese, CEO of Cinemage. “Jim knows an amazing
community of prominent investors, businessmen, and industry professionals in
Vancouver as well as international. We are pleased and excited with the dimension he
will add to our corporate finance programs.”
Mr. Fitzpatrick joins Mr. Nick De Cotiis as Corporate Finance Consultant and member of
the company’s Corporate Advisory Council. Mr. De Cotiis is a well-established and
prominent Vancouver, British Columbia businessman who also is President, Chief
Executive Officer and Director of the De Cotiis Group of Companies: investors in public
and pre-public companies; venture capitalists, and investors in other diversified industries
including Land Development, Building and Property Management. Further, Mr. De
Cotiis has played a prominent role in philanthropy, supporting various charitable
organizations including Athletics 4 Kids, Children’s Hospital and Lions Gate Hospital.
He attended Simon Fraser University in BC Canada.
“I’ve been tracking the technology sector for many years and feel that Cinemage is
extremely well positioned to capture resurging market interest in technology stocks to
achieve its corporate goals” stated Fitzpatrick. “My background fits well with
Cinemage’s corporate objective of using mergers and acquisitions as a strategic tool for
corporate growth. As Corporate Finance Consultant and member of the Corporate
Advisory Council, I intend to work closely with Nick De Cotiis, Edgar and CIG’s
strategic partners to build true and lasting value for current and future shareholders, and
help create a successful, diverse company focused on top-notch projects.”
Cinemage is positioned in the Internet eCommerce market sector. Its subsidiary ACT has
developed a proprietary market-ready software engine capable of deployment in many
Internet-based applications. As an Applications Service Provider Platform, the Cinemage
system is capable of securely hosting and selectively distributing digital goods and
Internet content for transaction fees, and processing these fees in e-commerce
applications. With affiliates it has created a Giclee art reproduction service hosted at
www.fineartprints.ca, in which digital representations of works of art are viewed and
purchased online for downloading and printing on large format printers at a Print & Ship
centre for delivery to the buyer.
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