Harned will be based at the firm's headquarters in Boston and will be focused on expanding transaction capabilities and relationships within the Communications, Networking and Clean Technology arenas. His extensive Wall Street experience spans Morgan Stanley, Banc of America Securities, Montgomery Securities and Lehman Brothers. For the last 12 years he has been focused on technology investment banking, having served in leadership roles as Managing Director at Banc of America Securities, Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and Head of Technology and Media Investment Banking at Capstone Partners.

With over 20 years of investment banking experience, Harned has successfully completed more than 75 strategic advisory and capital raising assignments over his career, including buy-side or sell-side M&A transactions involving Alcatel, Cabletron Systems, Excel Switching, Glenayre Technologies, OPNET Technologies, RELTEC Corporation, Sycamore Networks, and Veroxity; IPOs for clients such as Concord Communications, Excel Switching, MKS Instruments, OPNET Technologies, Positron Fiber Systems, and Telaxis Communications; and equity and/or debt financings for clients such as Amdocs, Anaren Microwave, Axcelis Technologies, Corning, LTX Corporation, Omnipoint Communications, Phone.com, and Research in Motion.

Harned earned his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his AB in English from Kenyon College.

AGC's Upcoming East Coast Emerging Growth Conference

AGC will host its 6th Annual East Coast Emerging Growth Conference next Wednesday, October 7th in Boston. There will be more than 150 companies participating, most of them private, with median revenues over $25 million. The program will consist of more than 120 public and private company presentations and 10 panel discussions. These five simultaneous tracks will collectively illuminate key trends in the hottest technology sectors and companies in emerging growth - including business services, clean tech, comms, data center, digital media/internet, FinTech, information security, semis and software. Email Brandy Faulkner at bfaulkner@americasgc.com to request an invitation.

Tim Harned's Contact Information:

America's Growth Capital 125 High Street, 30th Floor Boston, MA 02110 Direct: 617-261-4135 Email: tharned@americasgc.com

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