Andrew Steele-Smith Appointed CEO, HarrisonGray Asia-Pacific as Firm Expands Its Presence in Australia and the Pacific-Rim

Business Wire, Feb 25, 2003

Business Editors

ATLANTA, NEW YORK & SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2003

HarrisonGray, the rapidly growing global professional and advisory services firm headquartered in Atlanta, has launched a wholly owned subsidiary in Sydney, Australia as part of the firm's aggressive growth strategy in 2003.

Mr. Andrew Steele-Smith will lead HarrisonGray Asia-Pacific and spearhead HarrisonGray's expansion into other Pacific-Rim countries including China, Japan, India, Hong Kong and New Zealand.

"Andrew is a highly driven and visionary leader. He is extremely competitive and sets extremely high standards for himself and his team. As Executive Director for Axio, a boutique capital advisory and investment banking firm specializing in funding, structure and facilitation of emerging businesses, Andrew built a business that was a leader in its field within the Asia-Pacific region. This business' success was founded on similar team values, ethical principles and commercial foundations to HarrisonGray," said Marcus Stuart, President and Chief Executive Officer of HarrisonGray. "We are delighted he has chosen HarrisonGray as his next successful venture."

In less than one month, Mr. Steele-Smith has brought together an unrivaled team of partners, associates, directors and advisors including Mr. Stuart Bidwell who will serve as the Chief Financial Officer for HarrisonGray in Australia.

"Mr. Bidwell's extensive financial and systems experience as CFO at McGrath Real Estate and prior executive roles in Europe and Asia-Pacific will be of immense value to HarrisonGray as we aggressively expand our innovative approach to providing clients with premier professional and capital advisory services to markets in Asia-Pacific," reported Mr. Steele-Smith.

In less than one month HG Asia-Pacific has added significant clients and gathered a team of respected industry leaders to develop industry-specific practice groups in areas such as Cards & Payments Services, Exploration & Petroleum, Business Security Services and Technology Ventures. HarrisonGray is pleased to announce the following Partners, Directors and Advisors who have joined the firm:

Andrew G. Steele-Smith CEO & Managing Partner Stuart Bidwell

CFO Matt Wynn-Jones Partner, Technology Practice Chris Starsmeare Partner, Technology & Operations Practice Scott Maunder

Partner, Strategy Practice Paul Stephens Partner, Strategy Practice Per Salamanca Partner, Technology & Operations Practice Kurt McLachlan Partner, Business Development Hans Bjornenak Partner, Capital Practice Lee Blattmann

Partner, Technology Commercialisation Practice Douglas Harrison-Mills Partner, Capital Practice Stephen Dickey Business Development Director Andrew Corbett-Jones Partner, Project Implementation Jens Raun Partner, Technology Practice John Lancaster

Partner, Technology Commercialisation Practice Tony Hockey

Partner, Strategy & Operations Practice Stephen Atherton

Partner, Technology Practice Mark Boniface Partner, Outsourcing & Strategy Practice Michael Bradley Senior Manager, Business Development Dr Julian Ballard Senior Associate, Strategy Practice

Directors

Mr. Robert G. Bishop Chairman of the Board HG Asia-Pacific

Formerly COO of Westpac Banking Corporation

Formerly Director Global Channels for National Australia Bank

Currently Executive Mentor to the Regional Chairman of the MasterCard International Board

Former member of the MasterCard International Board

Current Chairman of the Board of IWL Limited Australia

Professor Reuben Rose Board of Directors HG Asia-Pacific

Dean of the School of Veterinary Sciences, the University of Sydney

Advisory Board

Mr. Ron Creevy Managing Director of The Cabinet

Co-founder of Magna Data / Davnet

Ms. Ellie Comerford Managing Director of First Title Insurance

Former Managing Director of Citibank Australia

Mr. Richard Moffit Partner of Grant Thornton

Mr. Matthew Rowe Partner of Coleman Greig

Mr. Scott Griffin Partner, Corporate Finance, Grant Thornton

"We look forward to announcing several additional partners over the coming month in Sydney and Melbourne and will be opening our Hong Kong offices in April," said Mr. Steele-Smith. HarrisonGray Asia-Pacific will be headquartered in Sydney at 383 Kent Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

About HarrisonGray

HarrisonGray is a global professional and advisory services firm focused on providing strategic business, operations, technology, outsourcing and capital solutions. For further information, visit www.harrisongray.com. For more information on HarrisonGray Asia-Pacific Pty Limited, please e-mail andrew.steele-smith@harrisongray.com, or telephone Mr. Steele-Smith on 1300 360 605, or 0402 214 218.