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ThinkEquity Partners Selects Visible Path's Social Networking Solution; Visible Path Helps High Net-Worth Individuals Collaborate in a High-Trust, Private Social Network

Posted on: Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 12:00 CDT

For Deborah Quazzo, president and head of banking at ThinkEquity Partners LLC, building relationships is central to work and life. She spends over half of each day staying in touch with people in her industry and referring people to others she has met during her 20-year career at investment banks ThinkEquity, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan and various other boards and committees.

So when Quazzo was looking for new ways for ThinkEquity Partners, a research-centric institutional investment firm, to optimize the way its professionals use their collective social network, the requirements were personal.

"ThinkEquity's community is full of influential, hard-to-reach people. We need a social network platform that promotes interaction yet protects people from spam and unwanted access," Quazzo said.

ThinkEquity selected Visible Path over other relationship capital platforms for its approach to building private networks, its algorithms that prioritize strong relationships and its software-as-a-service method for providing business benefits over technology headaches.

"Visible Path offers the right balance of efficient relationship-sharing across our high-net-worth network and individual control over access and privacy," Quazzo said.

ThinkEquity offers targeted research and investment banking services for institutional investors and corporate clients. Its 180 professionals in five U.S. financial centers focus exclusively on the growth sectors of the economy. They leverage knowledge and relationships to deliver expert insight and advisory services, including raising capital for public and private companies, institutional brokerage, asset management and wealth management.

Visible Path is the only service that allows business people to access an entire organization's trusted relationship network without invading privacy or compromising relationships. With Visible Path, companies can:

-- Find thousands of relationships that existing systems miss

-- Understand where the corporate network is strong and weak

-- View relationship strength

-- Control access to the corporate relationship network

-- Integrate the relationship network into CRM and other enterprise systems.

The ThinkEquity relationship network, powered by Visible Path, is a private, corporate network for ThinkEquity partners, staff, advisors and customers. Network subscribers can discover new relationships to prospects and partners, find the strongest, most trusted path to new relationships and privately request introductions through the network. Relationship-holders can select their level of exposure in the network and must approve any introduction requests that go through them.

About ThinkEquity Partners LLC

ThinkEquity Partners LLC is a research-centric institutional investment firm focused on the growth economy. ThinkEquity Partners LLC is dedicated to providing focused insight, advisory services, and capital to institutional investors and corporate constituents in the knowledge economy's key growth verticals, including technology, healthcare, media and consumer business services. For more information about ThinkEquity Partners LLC, please visit www.thinkequity.com. Member NASD and SIPC.

About Visible Path

Visible Path helps business people build, manage and capitalize their network of professional relationships. Visible Path professional edition provides free services that enable you to quickly build a private network by registering at www.visiblepath.com. Visible Path enterprise edition provides companies with Relationship Capital Management (RCM) services to build, protect and extend corporate networks. Visible Path has deployments at the most innovative companies in the United States, from Fortune 50 corporations to small professional service firms. Key integration and distribution partners for Visible Path services include Hoovers, IBM and other leading vendors. Visible Path was founded in 2002 and has received broad industry and analyst recognition, including profiles in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and Business 2.0. Visible Path is a privately-held company, backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Menlo Ventures and Integral Capital Partners.

Source: Business Wire

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