we turn ideas into results

gai&partner

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CompanyG&P is a Swiss based, internationally operating strategic counseling, networking, marketing, executive search, and corporate finance company operating in the high tech, telecommunication, l i f e sc iences and financial industries.We mix the unmixable, make brides among minds We talk to the scientist, the physician, the manager. We understand their ideas, turn them into effective businessplans,bring the bankers on board. And implement them.

We create value by:• Crafting our customers’ strategy • Enlarging their network• Improving their image • Giving them media visibility • Putting them in touch with financial institutions• Transmitting technological know how • Providing them with key personnel

The minds integratorsWe network with the decision makers of the high tech, financialand media worlds. Because we help them decide.

Our international legacySwitzerland is a bridge among cultures and countries.We put companies on this bridge and make them prosper on the other side.

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Cars:625 milionIn the world

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Is internet a utility?How can mobile technology improve private bankers productivity?What does a telemedicine company have to say to a credit card issuer?Can renewable energy be more high tech?Which assets should a biotech firm move to Switzerland?

We transform companies, and illuminate new paths for them.

Strategic Counseling

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ActivitiesWhat do the high tech and life science industries need most fresh ideas, and the network and the skills necessary to implement them.Hence the four pillars of our work: strategic counseling, in order to determine where to aim the boat, a world wide network to chose the right partners and alliances, executive search capabilities to recruit the right leaders, an open bridge to the finance community, securing that banks are on board and, finally, marketing and communication skills to disseminate results.

• Strategic counseling• Executive search• Networking• Corporate finance

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We know our candidates.We understand their jobs.We match them quickly, efficiently and confidentially.

We use our network of people and companies to place top notch individuals in good companies.

Executive Search

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Solar Energy:Two billion people in the world have no

access to electricity.The earth receives more energy from the sun in just 1 hour

than the world uses in a whole year.

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E-mail:171 billion emails are being sent each day.2 million every second.

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We are constantly in touch with informatics, health care, telecom, utilities and banking CEOs over strategic projects. This network is constantly growing and is merging with the media, government, and the academic world. In Switzerland, in the European Union and in the United States.

Marketing Outsourcing: Let our persuasive power become yours. For those companies for which it makes no sense to have a market-ing office, or for those who want to shoot from two different angles. From strategic positioning of products and services, to sales support.

Public and Media Relations: Our clients are in the front page.Whether it’s a one to one interview, or a press conference, we put clients in the spotlight.Total outsourcing of the press office.

Events:A new approach to High Tech shows and events.15 years of successful fairs and events, where business people interact, network and reach their objectives.

• Ticino Informatica: the Swiss Italian high tech networking and exhibition event focusing on ICT, telecommunication and start up companies. For the last sixteen years important opinion leaders gather at Ticino Informatica to discuss the high tech megatrends for the future. Together with Tecnopolo Lugano, the fair acts as a catalyst for new high tech enterprises who want to settle in the area. www.ti-info.ch

• Lugano Communication Forum: Three days, three topics that can change our lives, discussed at the highest level, yet with a language that can be understood by anyone. This is the ambitious goal of a forum that has been the launching platform for most Swiss Italian high tech projects, from the Informatics Faculty at Lugano University, to Tecnopolo Lu-gano. www.luganoforum.ch

The connections engine.

Networking

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Our network of banks helps our clients towards their private equity or credit needs.We turn fuzzy ideas into crystal clear business plan.

From startup to IPO.

Corporate Finance

Flight:Every day more than 4 million people fly on

commercial airlines worldwide.Each year 1.7 blillion people on 25 million flights.

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Flight:Every day more than 4 million people fly on

commercial airlines worldwide.Each year 1.7 blillion people on 25 million flights.

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Our ideas are always fresh, and we are forward thinkers. Yet, we have been around for twenty years. Here are those who walked with us.

References

BanksABT - Associazione Bancaria TicineseBanca del GottardoBSI SABanca dello Stato del Canton Ticino Banca Popolare di Sondrio (SUISSE)Cornèr BancaCrédit SuisseBanca Sarasin & C.UBS

IndustryAcer Computer AET– Azienda Elettrica Ticinese AIL SA Allianz Suisse Assicurazioni Ascom SA Bearingpoint AGBest Vision Holding LtdBluewin SA BSI Healthcapital SAB-Source SA Brainpower SA Cablecom SAGL

Casinò Lugano SA Cisco Systems Datelec Networks Deloitte & Touche SAElectronic Studio SAElsag Solutions SPA Ernst & Young SA Ferrovie federali svizzere (FFS) Fidinam SA Fujitsu Siemens Computers AG IM Ingegneria Maggia SA Iris Cube SPA La Basilese Media Markt SA Medic4all SPA Microsoft Schweiz GmbH NextiraOne Nortel Networks Oracle GmbH Orange Communications AG Postfinance – La Posta IT Publisuisse SA Reuters SA

Sage Schweiz AG Siemens BuildingTechnologies SA Sony Overseas SA Sun Microsystems (Schweiz) AG Swisscom SA Symantec Switzerland AG TC Systems SA Sunrise Communications SA Telekurs SA Vitaminic SPA Xerox SA

MediaCorriere del Ticino La Regione Giornale del Popolo Il Caffè Ticino Management Ticino WelcomeRSI - Radiotelevisione svizzeraTeleticino

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Education & ResearchCentro Promozione Start-upCSCS – Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Divisione Formazione Professionale Canton Ticino IDSIA – Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale Istituto CIMSI-Computer Integrated Manifacturing Fondazione Science et Cité Franklin CollegeSSIG – Scuola Superiore di Informatica di Gestione SUPSI – Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera ItalianaTecnopolo Lugano SA USI – Università della Svizzera Italiana

Public AdministrationAITI – Associazione Industrie Ticinesi Ccia-Ti – Camera di commercio, dell’industria e dell’artigianato del Cantone Ticino Cancelleria dello Stato del Cantone Ticino Città di Lugano Comunità Montana di Morbegno (Valtellina) Dipartimento delle finanze e dell’economia del Canton Ticino Dipartimento dell’educazione della cultura e dello sport del Canton Ticino Ordine dei Notai del Canton Ticino Polizia Cantonale del Canton Ticino

T9:New Year’s Day 2008: 43 billion of sms havebeen sent, recording an increase by 30%

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Aspirin50 billion tablets

produced worldwide, equivalent to about50,000 tonnes; and since it was patented

at the end of the 19th century, a trillion(a million billion) tablets have been consumed.

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Some ideas turned into idealsWe turn your ideas into a deal

Gai&PartnerVia F. Pelli 2

6900 Lugano(Switzerland)

info@gaiandpartner.comwww.gaiandpartner.com

Tel: +41 91 921 15 45Fax: +41 91 911 84 14

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