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Advantage Co I Introduction Posted by: Tony Date: December 4, 2024 I turned 70 in 2023, and soon it will be time for me to step aside and leave the Advantage Co to the next generation of leaders and builders. As we head into 2025, I am focusing on what it is I am going to do now that my time at the Advantage Co is coming to a close, but before I step aside, I am presenting this year’s updated Annual Profile as a touchstone for the current and future leaders of the Advantage Co. This Annual Profile featuring the Advantage Co’s remarkable portfolio of independently owned and operated businesses is meant to help define what the Advantage Co is today along with the strategies, resources, and effort needed to bring our future aspirations to fruition. Although we have spent over four decades cultivating our resources to enable and grow a variety of B2C businesses, the Advantage Co's focus has changed dramatically over the past dozen years. As we aggressively invest in the future, our growth strategy is now based on enhancing and expanding our support, development, and Ai-infused technology resources for our international B2B ambitions. At the Advantage Co, we have created a robust environment where everyone who is up to the challenge has enormous opportunities for advancement and personal equity - and now the challenge is all for the next generation and generations to come. https://tonywalkerpost.com/ Page 2

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Advantage Co I Mission Statement Mission Statement At the Advantage Co, we continue to help build remarkable value for our portfolio of independently owned and operated businesses by providing strategic resources, operating guidance, and Advantage Global Resource’s comprehensive and reliable back-end support. We work collaboratively to ensure advantageous market positioning, sustainable growth, and, when appropriate, a clear path to exit. With expertise in data governance, cyber security, Artificial Intelligence, cloud architecture, software development, professional technology services, accounting, tax, HR, staffing, design, branding, market positioning, sourcing, social benefit, beauty and wellness, and food services, we are uniquely positioned to help produce significant financial returns and meaningful social impact for our independently owned and operated partnerships [along with the fulfillment of each founder’s vision]. The Advantage Co has always been a builder of dreams, a builder of families, a builder of friendships, a builder of careers, a builder of opportunities, a builder of communities, and a catalyst for social good. And today, we are poised to be a builder of almost anything we can reasonably imagine [however, building does have a cost, and it is paid for in our commitment, determination, courage, and effort]. Building a Flexible Matrix To stay ahead of the competition and to continue our ever-changing and dynamic growth, the Advantage Co helps to develop each business as a flexible matrix that enables, encourages, and ensures strategic paradigm shifts through the simple restructuring of elements, providing maximum speed to benefit and market ascendancy. At the Advantage Co, we never agreed with the “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it” adage. We believe that even if it is working well, we can still make it more effective [because we know the competition is always hard at work on something new]. For us, the challenge remains to always stay relevant and ahead of the competition by continuously renewing, improving, and reinventing who we are. Grow or wither. “It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” — W. Edwards Deming In the early years of the Stereo Advantage, we remodeled our store every February. For over 30 years, we built rooms, walls, counters, offices, or displays only to knock them down and replace them as soon as we recognized we could build something better. As the consumer electronics market evolved from turntables and 8-tracks to cassette decks to cd’s to VCRs to DVDs to MP3 players to computers to Spotify and iPhones, the Stereo Advantage executed strategic paradigm shifts through the simple restructuring of its core elements to remain at the vanguard of the industry. And although the Stereo Advantage is gone, our commitment to relentless improvement and innovation remains in our DNA. This disruptive approach can be disconcerting - innovation and renewal often frustrate those who simply do not want to change - but it continues to stoke the fire within, accelerate our growth, and secure our future viability. Be big, be a builder. Page 4

Advantage Co I Building Partnerships In 1993, I decided to focus on building new businesses with visionary partners. My motivation for developing diverse partnerships was to create, support, and enjoy a variety of business experiences with an eclectic mix of energetic builders. It has always been my goal to share the vision and provide the resources necessary for the development of partnerships as a business adventure for those willing to take the full measure of the challenge. This business model has energized our Root Philosophy for over 30 years, and it’s been my good fortune to have worked with - and continue to work with - so many who have met the challenge. “Our partnership model certainly has worked well for me as it surpassed 30 years on September 3, 2023. I gave a speech years ago at the University of Buffalo, and someone asked me what our partnership model was. I told a story I’ve often recounted. Tony and I were at Brennan’s Bowery Bar in the summer of 1993 after a round of golf. We had been discussing a possible staffing partnership, and I said, “I’m in 50/50. Let’s shake hands.” Tony replied, “51/49, and you’re the 51 percent majority partner. Frank can do up our partnership agreement.” I immediately responded, “Ok great, see you on September 3rd.” Once I got started, I memorably asked, “What is our secretary’s name? I have a few letters that need to get typed.” Of course, I soon learned I’d be typing my own letters and learning how important the ‘Save’ button was.” – Joe Kreuz, Founding Partner of Kreuz Business Development Criteria for a Successful Partnership The Advantage Co’s independently owned and operated businesses and partnerships each answer to four key criteria: Oxygen, Equity, Opportunity, and Lifestyle: ● Oxygen is a business’s ability to provide the necessary cash flow and operating profit to sustain and grow the business. ● Equity is a business’s ability to provide maximum and enduring value for the partnership. ● Opportunity is a business’s ability to provide additional opportunities for everyone involved in the business [the Root Philosophy]. ● Lifestyle is a business’s ability to provide for and enhance all of its participants' lives. We are fortunate to have so many opportunities that answer so remarkably well to these demanding criteria. The Recession Over the past 40 years, we have always been well-prepared for periodic recessions. The last recession in 2008 proved to be the impetus for one of our most productive decades ever. Our approach to every recession has been to be cash-strong and ready to build while others are cutting back and bunkering in. Page 5

Since 1993, Joe Kreuz, Mark Pautler, and Tom Thomson have been the founding partners of more than a dozen successful Advantage Co independently owned and operated businesses, including AP Professionals of WNY, AP Professionals of Rochester, AP Professionals of Phoenix [with Jerry Tenenbaum], AP Metro, iWolrd Professionals [with Guylaine DiSalvo], APX Global [with Kelly Cultrara], c1 Secure, Autonomic Resources [with John Keese], Capax Global [with Jerry Hawk and John Baiocco], Zantaz Data Resources, … along with numerous other ventures. Page 6

Advantage Co I Effective Management The ability to take ownership of an undertaking - and successfully deliver the desired result - is the premier quality of effective management. As I prepare to move on, I am encouraged by the remarkable and well-seasoned management we have developed throughout the entire Advantage Co Portfolio. Delivering Results In every successful pursuit, there are those that go beyond contribution and actually provide the power to turn our intentions into reality. While dynamic leadership is essential to creating an environment where everyone is motivated to give a 100% effort toward the desired result, we rely on management to deliver the desired result. Effective management is the difference maker. The power to turn intention into reality is what every endeavor requires. “Management has to be accountable for performance. Management exists for the sake of the business’s results. It has to start with the intended results and has to organize the resources of the business to attain these results” - Peter F. Drucker Fully Aligned, Fully Committed, and Fully Engaged Without the power of fully aligned, fully committed, and fully engaged management, there is no focused energy source - and no chance of success. It is up to management to provide the resources, confidence, direction, and empowerment necessary to achieve our goals. “Every enterprise requires a commitment to common goals and shared values. Without such commitment, there is no enterprise; there is only a mob. It must be built on communication and individual responsibility. The enterprise must have simple, clear, and unifying objectives. The mission of the organization has to be clear enough and big enough to provide a common vision. Management’s first job is to think through, set, and exemplify those objectives, values, and goals. Objectives are the foundation for designing both the structure of the business and the work of individual units and individual managers. Objectives are always needed in all key areas. The area without specific objectives will be neglected. Unless we determine what will be measured and what the yardstick of measurement in an area will be, the area itself will not be seen. Objectives, therefore, have to be set in these eight key areas: Marketing, Innovation, Productivity, Physical Resources, Profitability, Financial Resources, Human Resources, and Social Responsibility.” - Peter Drucker Page 7

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Advantage Co I Portfolio Past Performance . Present Purpose . Future Needs At the Advantage Co, we learn from the past, work in the present, and build for the future. The past provides us with precious memories, moments, and a building block for the future. The present is here to both challenge us and provide enjoyment [and neither meeting the challenge nor enjoying the moment should ever be delayed until tomorrow]. While the future provides us with a chance to be all that we choose/work to be. Based on the remarkable foundation we have built over the past several years, our future is brighter than at any time in our history. Although various synergies contribute to our success, the Advantage Co’s portfolio of independently owned and operated businesses each has its own unique destiny with its own future to build. Advantage Co's current portfolio includes five key verticals: Information Technology, Professional Services, Beauty & Wellness, Properties, and Food & Beverages. Each vertical provides a variety of opportunities. Technology Professional Services Beauty & Wellness Zantaz Data Resources Advantage Global Resources Katini Skin C1 Secure AP Professionals of Phoenix Lab to Beauty Ragusa Executive Solutions iWorld Professionals Cocoa by CeCe Lifetime Service Properties Walker Global Solutions Food & Beverage Walker Center APX Global Giancarlo’s LTS Center BPX Executive Staffing Grivani Delta Apartments M&L Devine Resources Anu Blu Mediterranean Kitchen Walker Sports Audit The following is a short profile of several of the Advantage Co’s portfolio of independently owned and operated businesses, along with our key priorities for 2025. We’ll start with AGR and Zantaz. Page 9

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Fr. John Sturm I Message to the Advantage Committee Subject: Striving for Excellence in Our Work [circa 2003] It has been a true pleasure to be a special guest at so many of your Committee meetings. The Advantage Co represents an incredible journey, perfectly embodying my belief that Life is a Dance, Not a Dress Rehearsal. Having mentored Tony for many years, my involvement now with the Advantage Committee has given me the chance to share the Jesuit experience with all of you. Today, I want to reflect on what it means to strive for greatness in our work. The Jesuits, renowned for our discipline and commitment to excellence, serve as a powerful example for Tony in all his endeavors. The Jesuit experience is an intellectual acceptance of one’s potential and the courage and confidence to put it into action. Our motto, "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam" ("For the Greater Glory of God"), captures our dedication to excellence, not for personal gain, but for the greater good. The Jesuit experience offers several valuable lessons for you to embrace: Commitment to Continuous Improvement As Jesuits, we are committed to lifelong learning and growth. I encourage you to see every challenge as an opportunity to enhance your skills. Strive for higher standards, ask insightful questions, and work smarter. Finding Meaning in All Things Every task you undertake carries a purpose. Your contributions are invaluable, and approaching your work at the Advantage Co with intention and pride helps create something greater than any individual effort. Magis - The More The Jesuit principle of Magis, one of Tony’s favorites, encourages us to continually ask, “What more can I do?” It’s about striving for better, more impactful outcomes. As leaders at the Advantage Co, reflect on how you can refine processes, elevate results, and exceed expectations. While some aspire to greatness, many choose to remain spectators. A Jesuit education nurtures those who believe in their potential and transforms them into leaders. In a world filled with followers, we need leaders, and the Jesuits excel in cultivating that leadership. Throughout my life as a Jesuit, I have sought opportunities to build leaders for the greater good, embodying the spirit of Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. The Jesuit method of teaching activates the force within every student to bring out their best. At Canisius High School, as with every Jesuit institution, the Jesuit Page 11

educational experience aims to instill knowledge, accountability, confidence, and independence. Academics are essential, but it is more important to convince the student that he is able to think for himself, to be independent, and to manifest his own initiative. The Jesuit experience provides a foundation that students build on for a lifetime of independence and leadership. While confidence and independence have come easily to Tony, my challenge has always been to inspire his pursuit of knowledge and accountability. I am proud to see both flourish within the Advantage Co. Remember, the pursuit of excellence is not about perfection; it’s about progress. Let us recommit to bringing our best selves to the table, not just for our individual success but for the collective success of the Advantage Co, our families, friends, and community. I hope you find inspiration in the Jesuit model as you move forward. Lastly, the Downtown Priest Committee, which Tony, Joe, and I are building, is dedicated to preserving and enriching the Jesuit experience, nurturing our potential, and empowering us to act with courage and confidence. I sincerely appreciate your ongoing support and encouragement. As Tony says, this has been a rewarding third career for me as a Jesuit priest. Now, let’s get to work! PS This is the original mission statement that Fr. John and I wrote for the Downtown Priest Committee: For us, the Jesuit experience is an intellectual acceptance of one’s potential and the courage and confidence to put it into action. Therefore, the mission of the Downtown Priest Committee is to keep alive and vibrant the tradition of this charismatic spirit of the Jesuit experience for future generations by maintaining a unified force between faculty, students, alumni, and parents in the pursuit of instilling in the students the Jesuit way. The Downtown Priest Committee will promote the values of the Jesuit experience through fund-raising, encounter programs, and the publishing of inspirational works by Fr. Sturm and members of the entire Jesuit community. The challenge today in Jesuit schools everywhere is that we are educating a generation whose conceptual and imaginative universe is far different from our own. Compounding the difficulty is the unavoidable fact that there is a paucity of Jesuits and, consequently, a lack of direct Jesuit influence throughout our schools. To meet this challenge, Fr. Sturm and I are developing a nationwide program with the Downtown Priest Board of Directors to bring together the current students, faculty, administration, and parents with alumni, former faculty, and retired Jesuits for a spiritual encounter of renewal and vision. The Downtown Priest’s Jesuit Encounter Program will promote the value of working together to achieve a rewarding Jesuit experience. Hopefully, this encounter program will be valuable to Jesuit schools everywhere. No one thing, such as a school or a playing field, can achieve the success of a solid Jesuit experience. Our goal remains to develop leaders who graduate with intellectual self-confidence and courage as a common experience. The future of the Jesuit experience for our students depends on the old and new mixing together. It is the bringing together of retired Jesuits and teachers with the present. It is building the future by sharing the past. Page 12

Advantage Co I Advantage Global Resources Tracy Allen . Ian O’Neill Since 1988, I have believed that the true value of the Advantage Experience was to be realized by providing a menu of readily available resources for the development and support of an eclectic mix of independently owned and operated businesses. Today, Advantage Global Resources [AGR] provides the essential resources for the origination, formation, design, structure, financing, development, growth, reporting, monitoring, analytics, compliance, insurance, health care, HR, legal, security, accounting, audit, and governance of all the various Advantage Co’s business adventures. Chief among our Advantage Global Resources [AGR] support services are accounting, tax reporting, design, money management, and Human Resources. Accordingly, we have paid particular attention to the advancement and evolution of these resources over the past several years. One of the most poignant and rewarding outcomes of the Advantage Co’s pandemic response has been the development of the entire AGR team. Forged by remarkable solidarity during the height of the pandemic and spurred on by a unity of purpose and friendship, the entire AGR team has become one of our strongest, most reliable, and most enjoyable resources. Apparently, my strategy with AGR to just cave has worked better than anyone expected. 2024 was arguably AGRs best year ever. Office Anywhere Program AGR has seamlessly transitioned to a hybrid on-premise and work-from-home [when necessary] office dynamic. This allows everyone to be comfortable, safe, and productive regardless of where they are working from. [AGR provides each of our staff $1k a year for improving their remote office.] You can count on us. It all starts with a team that is fully aligned, fully committed, and fully engaged - which takes away the need for continuous oversight and unnecessary intrusion. This leads directly to more personal accountability and work satisfaction. Ian is now a well-seasoned manager, and having a team that looks out for each other has certainly made his job easier. In addition to the satisfaction of AGR growing into a tight-knit and productive team, we all take great pride in how much the entire Advantage Co appreciates and relies on the work AGR is doing [for them]. Over the past few years, we have had the opportunity to gain a better insight into what AGR must do to create the type of support that will continue to provide the foundation, security, and confidence necessary to enable the enduring prosperity and growth of Advantage Co as a robust business-building resource. To remain a potent service, AGR will continue to develop and acquire new technologies [e.g. AGR Bridge, Bill.com, Bullhorn, CCH Access Tax, etc.] in order to push us to the vanguard of technological innovation. Sustaining and enhancing our recent success will depend, in large part, on building technologically advanced resources that will enable the creation, development, operation, support, security, and governance of a variety of new opportunities, partnerships, and investments. And now we are ready for the future … Page 13

Looking back over 40 years, this was our intrepid crew at the Stereo Advantage at 5687 Main Street in the Village of Williamsville, NY. It was an amazing group of friends and builders. In no particular order, Crash, Audio Al, Pete, Liz, Butch, Karen, Sprout, Lizzie, Trey, Dave the K [the King of Car Stereo], Susie, Artie, Gapper, and Joanne. I’ll leave it to you to match the names to the faces. My apologies to Joe Bake [who got taken out by water damage]. Page 14

Zantaz Data Resources I New Company … Rich Legacy Zantaz Data Resources announced today the acquisition of the assets of several of the Unified Global Archiving portfolio of independently owned and operated companies, including Capax Discovery LLC, Zovy, ZNZ Resources, PremCloud Resources, Logix Hosting, and Cloud Staffing. Zantaz Data Resources Zantaz Data Resources LLC will begin operation on January 1, 2025. Zantaz will provide market-leading data solutions for its enterprise customers worldwide. Mike McGrath has been named the new CEO of Zantaz Data Resources. Vertically Integrated Zantaz will be a vertically integrated tech company with its newly acquired assets, including over 100 international legacy enterprise accounts, a talented development, delivery, hosting, service, support, sales, marketing, and account management team, advanced data solution IP, its own data center and cloud, and an expanding international network of agents and resellers. What Zantaz Data Resources plans to deliver starting January 1st - from start to finish - will be unrivaled in data management. Data Optimization Tool Kit Zantaz strongly believes that "data is the new oil" and is only truly valuable when it is refined. This belief is at the core of the company’s data refinery services. Zantaz’s new SaaS or on-premise deployed Data Optimization Tool Kit leverages human-augmented AI, blending the speed and analytical power of our Smart Data Router with human expertise. This universal tool kit is pivotal in converting Unstructured Data into valuable Actionable Smart Data at scale and speed. It enables organizations to cure their escalating Dark Data problem, eliminate ROT, and dramatically reduce data storage costs while delivering the hoped-for but elusive ROI on their substantial AI investments. In addition to data optimization, the company offers a suite of advanced archiving tools. These tools are integrated with Zantaz’s Data Optimization Processing and provide improved search, performance, and security. Zantaz’s archiving tools can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud. International Network of Agents and Resellers Central to Zantaz Data Resources’s success will be its global Zantaz MarketPlace. Zantaz MarketPlace is a business resource that will provide comprehensive global access to exceptional Zantaz products and services for its International Network of Agents and White-Label Resellers. Zantaz MarketPlace will equip its Agents and Resellers with the tools to effectively meet the needs of their commercial, institutional, and government customers. Looking ahead, Zantaz Data Resources is committed to continuous innovation and expansion. It aims to enhance its global MarketPlace with new offerings, advanced technologies, and enhanced support services to ensure its International Network of Agents and Resellers remains at the forefront of technology. Join Our Network For more information about becoming an agent or white-label reseller with Zantaz MarketPlace, please contact Jamie Welsted at jwelsted@zantaz.ai or call him directly at 716.430.292 Page 15

Zantaz ‘24 Summer Conference I Thank You A heartfelt thank you to everyone who traveled to Williamsville, NY, for our second Zantaz MarketPlace International Summer Conference. Your contributions, insights, and enthusiasm greatly enhanced the quality of our presentations and discussions throughout the week. Giancarlo's was an ideal venue, and the food and hospitality provided by Gabriela, Anthony, and their entire team made the event both enjoyable and memorable. Once again, we enjoyed a variety of enthusiastic presentations that were informative, thought-provoking, and often inspiring. The face-to-face interactions facilitated spontaneous exchanges of ideas, which continue to complement our effective international remote work environment. While virtual communication tools are valuable for our global collaborations, they cannot fully replicate the richness and depth of in-person dialogue. As I mentioned at the outset, this year's conference marked the end of our practice phase, and it certainly proved beneficial. Data Optimization Throughout the week, we showcased our new Data Optimization Processing, set for general release to customers worldwide on January 1st. Introducing the Zantaz MarketPlace The Zantaz MarketPlace '24 Summer Conference also provided a platform to highlight the exceptional opportunities our new Zantaz MarketPlace will offer to our burgeoning International Network of Authorized Agents and Resellers. This year's meetings, presentations, and discussions presented a unique opportunity for all attendees to actively participate in shaping our future, which promises significant benefits for everyone willing to build it. Once again, thank you to everyone who attended the Zantaz MarketPlace '24 Summer Conference. Our few days together exceeded expectations, and the future looks incredibly bright. Save the date for next year: Zantaz MarketPlace '25 Summer Conference [possibly in San Sebastian, Spain] from Monday, June 23rd to Wednesday, June 25th. Page 16

Zantaz MarketPlace I Introduction Zantaz MarketPlace aims to empower an International Network of Authorized Agents and White Label Resellers. Our mission is to establish Zantaz MarketPlace as a global resource that provides comprehensive access to exceptional Zantaz Data Resources products and services for our Agents worldwide. At its core, Zantaz MarketPlace represents a culmination of a 46-year vision to leverage our resources for greater opportunities, growth, and profitability. Central to our mission is the success of our International Network of Agents. By showcasing a diverse array of remarkable Provider Offerings, Zantaz MarketPlace will equip our Agents with the tools to effectively meet the needs of commercial, institutional, and government customers worldwide. On October 1st, Zantaz MarketPlace will deliver an easily accessible and useful library of essential information on all our available Zantaz Offerings. Zantaz MarketPlace will facilitate and enhance opportunities for our International Network of Agents while enabling advantageous and frictionless intracompany participation. As our Zantaz Offerings grow in our Zantaz MarketPlace, our International Network of Agents and their customer opportunities will grow as well. Zantaz MarketPlace is committed to fostering meaningful partnerships and delivering unparalleled value worldwide to our Agents and Resellers. ● Global Access Agents will have authorized access to a broad spectrum of Zantaz Offerings, streamlining the sales process and maximizing revenue potential. ● Comprehensive Support Zantaz will provide robust sales support, fulfillment protocols, and exceptional commission structures, ensuring our Agents are incentivized and empowered to succeed. ● Value Proposition Each Zantaz Offering will be meticulously detailed in a Smart Card to highlight its unique value proposition, ensuring that Agents can effectively communicate benefits to prospective customers. ● Agent Empowerment Through Zantaz training, certification programs, and ongoing support, Zantaz MarketPlace will empower Agents to capitalize on opportunities and drive mutual growth. The ideal Zantaz MarketPace Agent has existing relationships as a trusted provider within their market. Leveraging these relationships will enable the Agent to sell Zantaz Offerings, which in turn will strengthen their customer relationships and provide additional earnings. Commission Note: Agents are responsible for cultivating opportunities through their existing network. If an Agent creates merely an introduction that generates an opportunity for Zantaz, that Agent will be commissioned appropriately for the resulting paid business. Looking ahead, Zantaz MarketPlace is committed to continuous innovation and expansion. We aim to enhance our platform with new offerings, advanced technologies, and enhanced support services to ensure our network remains at the forefront of the technology industry. Page 17

Zantaz MarketPlace I Zantaz Offerings The Zantaz MarketPlace will provide a venue for all of our International Network of Agents by enabling authorized access to all of our Zantaz Offerings in order to facilitate and enhance their sales opportunities with potential customers worldwide. ZantazMarketPlace.com In order to maximize our selling potential, every Agent needs to know the simple basics of every Zantaz Offering. ZantazMarketPlace.com will be an easily accessible and useful storehouse of essential information that will enable advantageous and frictionless Zantaz and Agent participation. ZantazMarketPlace.com will be password protected, and access will be limited to authorized Agents and Resellers—this is not a venue for customers. As an exclusive resource, Agents will gain access to a diverse range of Zantaz Offerings, enabling them to cater to their customer's specific needs and dramatically expand their revenue opportunities. Smart Cards We will begin by identifying all of the Zantaz Offerings we will have available to sell through our Smart Card format. The Smart Card will start by introducing the product, service, solution, or resource that Zantaz is making available—along with the cost and the ideal customers for a particular offering [and why]. Smart Card information on each Zantaz Offering will include its features, benefits, sales protocol, deployment, and all essential contact and presentation information. This will ensure Agents can confidently engage with potential customers, backed by comprehensive support from Zantaz. Agent Compensation The Smart Card will provide the entire benefit and commission structure. Zantaz will be responsible for all of the commissions earned by the Agent. Note: In order to be eligible for compensation, the Agent must have authorization to present from Zantaz before introducing an offering to a customer. Value = Benefits - Cost Detailing the value proposition for each Zantaz Offering is a key component of the Smart Card strategy. A value proposition is a promise of value to be delivered along with a firm belief by the customer that the desired value will be experienced. The customer must understand and believe the value received will be significantly greater and more rewarding to them personally than the cost associated with its acquisition. The Smart Card will aid the authorized Agent in selling or referring the Zantaz Offering to potential customers by detailing the four most important points that should speak to the direct benefit the customer will receive. Selling & Fulfillment The Zantaz MarketPlace will streamline the selling and fulfillment process for its Agents, ensuring a seamless experience for them and their customers. The Zantaz Smart Card will provide comprehensive logistical information, guide Agents on how to refer or sell Zantaz Offerings and facilitate efficient sales processes and fulfillment. The Smart Card will provide the logistics regarding how referring or selling a Zantaz Offering is carried out by the Agent in conjunction with Zantaz, as well as defining the chain-of-custody in regards to the customer and the fulfillment of the sale. Page 18

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Zantaz Data Resources I Writing a New Story Over 25 years ago, Tom Thomson launched Advantage Systems Professionals in Pittsford, NY, as our first technology partnership. Since then, our propitious success in the tech space has been beneficial to everyone who has had the resolve to invest, adapt, and persevere. Two of our more noteworthy tech highlights include being the first to earn the FedRAMP Authority to Operate and the development of our market-leading PremCloud Unified Data Platform. Also worth highlighting was our successful engagement with United Airlines, which led to the successful sale of our Capax Global partnership to Hitachi Data Systems. As a long-time Microsoft Partner, Capax Global, under the guidance of founding partners Jerry and Jessica Hawk, delivered unbelievably complex and technical solutions to some of the world’s largest companies, and their work with United Airlines was no exception. Click here: https://vimeo.com/279288962 Zantaz Data Resources development, deployment, and support resources will provide the foundation for all our current and future tech ambitions. Zantaz Data Resources is buoyed by the fact that the avalanche of Unstructured Data, as well as growing data compliance demands, will increase exponentially in every enterprise and government that is relentlessly creating a massive amount of data that needs to be rapidly and securely identified, archived, stored, disposed of, managed, and utilized … and nothing provides more advanced solutions than Data Optimization. Zantaz Data Resources' future strategy is to continue enhancing our AI-infused Data Optimization and bringing it to market with Zantaz MarketPlace’s International Network of Agents and Resellers. “Zantaz Data Resources built Data Optimization Processing to organize data using metadata attributes to facilitate actionable insights into the data. Our Ai-infused tools connect directly to Unstructured Data repositories to identify and extract metadata and text from over 1,000 different file types. Unlike other file analytics products that limit customers to a singular deployment model, our Data Optimization Processing can deploy on-premises, in public clouds such as Azure or AWS, in a private cloud, or in a hybrid deployment model.” - Will White, President, Zantaz Data Resources Logix Hosting It is also our responsibility to make certain that all of our technologies are effectively deployed and supported with optimal functionality while operating at their maximum performance capabilities. That’s what Zantaz’s Logix Hosting is all about. Logix Hosting is an Italy-based international team of delivery, hosting, and support experts led by Marco Pizzolo, servicing large enterprise clients worldwide. We have over 300 years of combined experience across a broad range of enterprise application solutions centered around enterprise data management. The Logix Hosting services include: ● Managed, Professional, & Hosting Services ● Deployment & Training ● Support & Maintenance ● Solution Engineering ● Full Sales Technical Support ● Cloud Hosting & Data Center Management Page 20

Zantaz MarketPlace I Zantaz Data Resources With each passing day, massive amounts of Big Data arrive in various forms with up to 90% of it being Unstructured Data. Organizations are generating an overwhelming amount of Unstructured Data at an unprecedented rate [as the amount of data that is being generated in the world doubles every eight months], fueled by factors such as increased digitalization, IoT devices, social media, Artificial Intelligence, and customer interactions, as well as challenging distributed workforces and increased utilization of chat and collaboration platforms (MS Teams, Zoom, Slack, etc.). This rapid growth has exposed the damaging limitations of every organization’s legacy data solutions that leave massive amounts of Unstructured Data in the lurch. Zantaz’s Data Optimization Unfortunately, we were once stuck in the same predicament, but with our new Data Optimization, Zantaz Data Resources is now able to address the avalanche of Unstructured Data that is overwhelming our customers. Our new AI-infused data tools have been developed to process Unstructured Data at speed and scale [turning Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data]. Taking Zantaz Data Resources to Market for Acquisition Zantaz Data Resources is an independently owned and operated data technology company that already has a rich and remarkable legacy. Over the past 20 years, the foundation of Zantaz Data Resources has been laid through the Advantage Co’s license, develop, build, and acquire model to create incredible value as the world's premier data archiving and Unstructured Data processing provider. On January 1, 2025, we will officially bring Zantaz’s Data Optimization to market. Logix Hosting Logix Hosting empowers Zantaz Data Resources to reach its goal of ensuring that each of its international clients can experience first-hand the power of its new Data Optimization. Logix Hosting also deploys the Terabyte Tester as a SaaS consumable, proof-of-value tool to demonstrate Zantaz's Data Optimization's ability to deliver an immediate ROI for its clients. Together, Zantaz and the Logix Hosting team can establish goals for an Data Optimization engagement and measure the program’s success in reaching those goals within one (1) week. With this rapid approach, Logix Hosting can dramatically lower the barrier of entry for all of Zantaz’s clients with no software to deploy On-Premise, no complex infrastructure to provision, and little training required. Page 21

Zantaz Data Resources I Our Global Clients Alder King LLP AMBANK (Malaysia) Berhad American International Industries Ampersand Capital Partners APTIM Arch Insurance Group Inc. Artemide Group SPA [Gruppo Artemide Italy] Ascension Health Aspen Pharmacare Avenue Capital Group Averis Hong Kong Averis [Kuala Lumpur & Singapore] AWA Patent AB Bank Muscat Barclays Barings Investment Services Limited Barratt Developments PLC BayernInvest BentallGreenOak (U.S.) Limited Partnership Blank Rome LLP BonelliErede (aka. Studio Bonelli) Bonneville Power Administration Bristol Water Plc Broadcom Bruce Power L.P. Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer Caerphilly County Borough Council Canadian Dental Association Cancer Specialists of Northern Florida (used to be ICON) CENTENE Corporation CentraState Medical Center Charles Schwab & Co, Inc. Choate, Hall & Stewart CIT - West Chester Township City National Bank City of San Diego Cobelfret (dba CLdN IT SA) COCC Codan (Canada) Inc. Compex Legal Services, Inc. Compliance IT Solutions LLC Credit Guarantee Insurance Corp of Africa Ltd. CyberCoders DeGolyer and MacNaughton Delek US Deloitte (UK & Switzerland) Deloitte General Services Department of Social Protection Dkv Mobility Services Business Center Doehler GmbH EDF Energy Plc Enterprise Bank & Trust Epson Europe BV Essentia Health System (aka SMDC) European Central Bank European Fund Administration (EFA) EY Global Services Limited GovCloud Resources Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement (FDLE) Foley Hoag LLP GAM (UK) Ltd Geller & organization LLC General Electric Georgia Department of Law Gloucestershire County Council Goblet Lavandier and Associes S.A. Goodwin Procter LLP Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited Gunderson Dettmer Haron Services F.K.A ETHENEA Hilco Global Hogan Lovells US LLP Hollingsworth LLP Huntington National Bank Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (a. Hunton Williams) IKO Industries Inspira Health Network Islington Council iStar Financial ITC Holdings Corp. J.M. Huber Corporation JMP Securities LLC, Research Division Kaleida Health Kansas City Police Department Page 22

Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co KG Lloyds Banking Group Logwin AG London Borough of Bromley Marex Group Mannheimer Swartling Maverick Services, LLC MBDA UK Limited McDermott International McDermott Will & Emery LLP McKesson Corporation Meketa Investment Group, Inc. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Morgan Stanley Securities - Mitsubishi UFJ (MUMSS) Muckle LLP MUFG Bank [Bank of Tokyo] National Bank of Egypt (UK) Limited Network Rail New Jersey Hospital Association New Zealand Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority Nomura International Plc North of England P&I Association Ltd NEPIA Northwood University Oaktree Capital Management Orange County Dept of Education Oregon Department of Transportation Palm Beach County Paradise Canyon PI Financial Corp AKA Pacific International Financial Corp Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP PNM Resources Polytype Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group Inc Quilter PLC (formerly Old Mutual Wealth) Redstone Federal Credit Union Rembrandt IP Management LLC Riemer & Braunstein LLP Rolls Royce Solutions Ropes & Gray LLP Rosling King LLP San Diego Police Department Sandberg, Phoenix & Von Gontard P.C Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. Shearman & Sterling LLP Shell Int'l Trading Shipping Co Signal Energy Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Sirius XM Radio Inc. Software AG South Sound 911 Southern Health & Social Care Trust SS&C Technologies Inc. Steptoe & Johnson LLP (US) Steptoe & Johnson, LLP (EMEA) Tacoma Pierce County Health Department TDS Telhio TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Organization L.P. ThyssenKrupp Torbay Council Torys LLP Tourism Ireland Limited Troutman Pepper Truworths International Limited UGL Limited UnBiasIt Unisys University City Housing University of Virginia Viatris (a Mylan Inc.) Vodacom W & R Corporate LLC Walsh, Pizzi, O'Reilly, Falanga Willcox and Savage Willett Advisors, LLC World Bank Group Z Legal Data Resources Zantaz Data Resources Zoom Page 23

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Zantaz MarketPlace I White-Label Resellers Zantaz MarketPlace’s ambition is to empower our International Network of Teaming Partners and White-Label Resellers with beneficial access to everything we are bringing to market. Data Optimization’s Teaming Partner Program An authorized Zantaz Teaming Partner is eligible for the various commission programs Zantaz Data Resources offers to represent its programs, products, solutions, or services. For example, the Zantaz Teaming Partner Commission for the sale of its Data Optimization or White-Label Reseller Program License is a remarkable 30% of the License Fee. Data Optimization’s White-Label Reseller Program Zantaz Data Resources offers Data Optimization through a White-Label Partnership, licensing White-Label Resellers to expand their product and service offerings rapidly. White labeling is a business model where one company produces and delivers a product or service, and another company rebrands it as its own. This allows White-Label Resellers to save time and resources on research, development, and implementation while offering their clients innovative solutions. Zantaz Data Resources’s White Label Reseller License means that a White-Label Reseller has the right to resell the Data Optimization Tool Kit under their own branding. This gives the White-Label Reseller full control and ownership over their customers rather than the customers belonging to Zantaz. Through a White Label partnership with Zantaz Data Resources, White-Label Resellers get to market faster, can extend their brand, and can immediately provide their customers with new Ai-Infused solutions. Zantaz’s Data Optimization products, solutions, and services are ready-made, fully tailored offerings that make rebranding very simple. The Data Optimization White Label Program enables White-Label Resellers to quickly expand their offerings, revenue, customer retention, customer acquisition, and equity without the investment in time and money to build or acquire new software, products, or services. ● White Label Branding The White-Label Reseller can rebrand Data Optimization as their own, using their own company name, branding, etc. It appears to the end customers as the Reseller's own offering. ● White-Label Reseller License in Perpetuity The White-Label Reseller License for Data Optimization is $1M. The White-Label Reseller has the ongoing right to resell Data Optimization for 5 years. ● Customer Ownership The White-Label Reseller has control, flexibility, and ownership of the customer relationships when selling their branded Data Optimization. ● Increased Commissions Additionally, the White-Label Reseller Commission for the sale of its Data Optimization is now 50% of the License Fee [and 20% on Renewals]. This is a dramatic increase from the 30% a Teaming Partner earns. Page 28

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Key Benefits of the Data Optimization White-Label Partnership Data Optimization is a feature-rich platform that includes advanced data analytics, visualization, and reporting capabilities. Through the White-Label Partnership, Resellers can rebrand the toolkit with their own branding and sell it to their customers as a tailored solution. ● Rapid Time-to-Market Minimal risk of trying a new product. Faster speed to market with new products than developing yourself. White-Label Resellers can immediately add a new, cutting-edge AI-infused data analytics solution to their portfolio without the need for extensive in-house development. ● Scalable Revenue Streams with Added Retention Recurring revenue with the SaaS model. Expand into more markets/add new revenue streams. White-Label Resellers can rapidly increase their revenue, customer retention, customer acquisition, profit, and equity without the investment in time and money to build or acquire new products or services. Increase your stickiness factor—the more you do for customers, the more customers become dependent on you. ● Reduced Costs By leveraging Data Optimization and Logix Hosting’s' existing infrastructure and expertise, Resellers can avoid the overhead associated with building a data analytics tool from scratch. By using an already-established product and deployment resource, White-Label Resellers save on research, development, delivery, updates, and support. ● Branded Differentiation Expand your brand, build trust and your reputation. Solidifies you as an expert Ai service provider. White-Label Resellers can differentiate themselves in the market by offering a unique, white-labeled data analytics solution under their own brand. Diversify and cross-promote product and service offerings to become a full-service provider. ● Ongoing Support and Maintenance Zantaz Data Resources’ Logix Hosting handles all updates, bug fixes, and support for Data Optimization, allowing White-Label Resellers to focus on sales and customer success. Page 30

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Zantaz MarketPlace I LLM Data Feeder Welcome to LLM Data Feeder LLM Data Feeder is a new AI start-up built on a legacy of success in developing first-to-market technology solutions. Featuring our extraordinary AI data preparation process to satisfy the voracious demand for large data sets by internal LLMs, our technology is deployed into self-contained instances inside your corporate network boundary, meaning that it operates entirely inside your security perimeter, data center, or cloud ecosystem of choice, with no dependencies on third-party LLMs or external data transit. LLM Data Feeder rapidly and securely overcomes all of these data acquisition, curation, and management challenges by enabling high-quality, unbiased, and ethically sound LLMs with Actionable Smart Data. Internal LLMs Internal LLMs eliminate the need to send sensitive data to an external provider, reducing the risk of data breaches or misuse. You can ensure that all your data processing and storage happens within your own secure environment. With a secure Internal LLM, your data is never exposed to the outside world. LLM Data Feeder enables you to validate inputs, monitor outputs for strange behavior, and restrict access to keep bad data out and protect sensitive information. By implementing a combination of LLM Data Feeder’s advanced techniques at scale, you significantly reduce the risk of data assimilation on your LLM models. Processing Data at Speed and Scale Developing a comprehensive and high-quality training dataset for large language models [LLMs] can be a significant challenge. Sourcing large volumes of textual data from diverse and reliable sources is usually a time-consuming and complex task]. Raw textual data often contains errors, inconsistencies, and irrelevant or low-quality content that needs to be identified and removed. Cleaning and preprocessing the data to maintain high quality and consistency is a complex and labor-intensive task that only LLM Data Feeder can do effectively and rapidly at exabyte scale. Handling Sensitive or Restricted Content Certain types of content, such as personal information, copyrighted material, or potentially harmful content, are carefully identified and excluded from the dataset by LLM Data Feeder. Handling sensitive or personal information within the dataset requires LLM Data Feeder’s robust data privacy and security measures to protect against misuse or breaches. Complying with relevant data protection regulations adds another layer of complexity. Navigating legal and ethical considerations around using such data is an issue that LLM Data Feeder allows you to confidently address. Bias and Fairness Considerations Proactively addressing and mitigating biases in the data is also a complex and nuanced task. LLM Data Feeder ensures your datasets do not perpetuate or amplify harmful biases, such as those related to gender, race, or socioeconomic status. Annotation and Labeling For certain LLM applications, the data may need to be annotated or labeled with additional metadata, such as topic, sentiment, or entity information. LLM Data Feeder provides effective and scalable annotation processes. Page 32

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Managing Data Securely at Speed and Scale Today, massive amounts of Big Data are being generated and accumulating in various forms with up to 90% of it being an escalating avalanche of Unstructured Data. Your organization is most likely generating this overwhelming amount of Unstructured Data at an unprecedented rate, fueled by factors such as increased digitalization, IoT devices, social media, artificial intelligence, and customer interactions, as well as challenging distributed workforces and increased utilization of chat and collaboration platforms [MS Teams, Zoom, Slack, etc.]. Managing and utilizing Unstructured Data, such as text documents, images, and videos, is particularly challenging [and beyond current data solutions' speed and accuracy capabilities]. Complicating matters even more, this escalating Big Data is often metastasizing in scattered systems and departments, leading to data fragmentation. This fragmentation can make rapidly identifying, accessing, searching, storing, exposing risk, analyzing, and effectively utilizing Big Data difficult while dramatically diminishing the anticipated ROI on your organization’s expensive investment in data generation and AI LLMs. But now LLM Data Feeder has the solution … Actionable Smart Data LLM Data Feeder has answered this challenge by delivering a solution that can rapidly harness massive amounts of Unstructured Data at exabyte scale, turning it all into Actionable Smart Data. Although most organizations have some solutions to address their escalating avalanche of Unstructured Data, none can perform at the speed or scale of LLM Data Feeder, which can now scan 8 million files per hour [that’s one billion files per week]. LLM Data Feeder is pivotal in transforming any Unstructured Data estate by delivering Actionable Smart Data. By turning your escalating avalanche of Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data, your data can be properly routed, stored, secured, and made accessible for deployment into private AI Large Language Models [LLMs] and machine learning [to extract valuable insights from properly identified and stored data]. This transformation turns static data into dynamic, strategic assets. LLM Data Feeder also strategically removes ROT while actively contributing to business intelligence, significantly boosting operational efficiency and ensuring compliance. By accessing Unstructured Data and converting it into Actionable Smart Data, LLM Data Feeder immediately delivers ROI, allowing your organization to leverage its escalating avalanche of Unstructured Data in real time. With advanced search capabilities and scalable architecture, LLM Data Feeder ensures informed decision-making and efficient handling of expanding data volumes, especially for populating your internal LLMs.We now have a new company developed by AGR called LLM Data Feeder. LLM Data Feeder’s has its own Proprietary Data Stack that features our extraordinary AI data preparation process to satisfy the voracious demand for large data sets by internal LLMs [with four key solution steps in the process: Data Connector, Data Preparer, Data Viewer, and Data Router]. LLM Data Feeder has no legacy accounts. Avoid the Risk of AI Exposure From Public and External LLMs LLM Data Feeder provides internal LLMs with massive amounts of fully vetted, safe, and secure data. LLM Data Feeder turns an organization’s avalanche of Unstructured Data into Actionable Smart Data to feed their LLMs’ growing appetite for data. It not only vets the data populating LLMs, but it can also vet the data produced by AI. It is no longer “Who wrote this?” It’s now “What wrote this?” Page 34

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LLM Data Feeder I LLM Data Feeder Tools LLM Data Feeder features our Data Connector, Data Preparer, Data Viewer, and Data Router tools. LLM Data Feeder turns all of your organization’s Unstructured Data [including its troublesome Dark Data] into Actionable Smart Data, and once your organization has Actionable Smart Data, our AI-infused Data Router distributes your data to the most appropriate, useful, and cost-effective destination [based on your organization's own Policy, Compliance, and Utilization Demands] … the ROT is disposed of, and the remaining data is Re-Tiered as Actionable Smart Data for its most effective and cost-efficient storage and utilization [especially for building internal LLMs] - allowing for safer and more effective AI as well as dramatic data storage cost savings, effective cost allocation, elimination of risk, full compliance, and recognition of the full ROI potential and utilization of your entire Big Data estate. Private LLMs Offer Significant Advantages Over Public LLMs Private LLMs empower organizations to harness the transformative power of large language models while maintaining full control, security, and customization. This allows them to unlock value, enhance operations, and build competitive advantage - all without the risks inherent in relying on public AI services. Private LLMs are a compelling solution for enterprises seeking to responsibly leverage the AI revolution. Data Privacy and Security With private LLMs, organizations can keep all of their sensitive data and intellectual property within their own secure infrastructure. This eliminates the risk of data breaches, leaks, or misuse that can occur when using public LLMs hosted by external providers. Companies can ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and protect their most valuable information assets by maintaining full control over the training data and model. Zantaz MarketPlace Provider I C1 Secure C1 Secure is known for its remarkable ServiceNow risk and security apps [with industry-leading continuous monitoring capabilities], and now C1 Secure is breaking new barriers as they proudly introduce Ai DataNow, their groundbreaking ServiceNow Data as a Service tool that provides next-generation data governance and promises to deliver significant data optimization and storage cost reduction for all participants in the ServiceNow ecosystem. Ai DataNow, integrated with ServiceNow, utilizes its DataNow Connect and DataNow Optic tools from PremCloud's Unified Data Platform to perform a comprehensive scan and cataloging of all storage frames across the global data storage estate. This initial analysis is critical for understanding the current state of the storage infrastructure and identifying areas for improvement. C1 Secure's CISO Sentinel, built upon ServiceNow's integrated risk management and security operations platform, revolutionizes continuous monitoring for government cloud service providers and businesses. Page 36

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Cost Table: Estimated Before and After Reduction per Tiered and Overall Storage Cost Savings Data Detect will save GE an estimated $30M - an incredible 60% reduction in storage costs over 3 years. Cost savings on Storage and Search Establishing effective policies and frameworks in conjunction with Data Detect’s auto-classification capabilities enables your organization to defensibly delete large amounts of irrelevant data and retain critical data in a searchable repository for compliance and business purposes. This allows your organization to reduce storage costs by consolidating storage with less data and preserving essential data in a compressed and encrypted archive for search. Data Optimization Router classification adds metadata attributes to your organization’s data. Search improves because you can search data by topic, keywords, and content. You can delete useless documents by continuously classifying all data, run faster searches on targeted data volumes, and eliminate costly, time-consuming ad-hoc searches. Data Security and Confidentiality After classifying all data by security and value, your organization can defensibly dispose of data that represents an unnecessary risk to the firm. You can lower the risk of lawsuits and fines by identifying sensitive or compromising data and moving it from insecure storage to a secure, archived storage repository. Additionally, you can ensure that only the proper personnel in your organization have access to sensitive or classified data, easily ensuring that you are meeting the rigorous requirements of security controls such as International Traffic in Arms Regulations [ITAR]. In the event of an investigation or audit, you can quickly retrieve data in response to discovery requests with confidence they know all of their data has been identified and classified. In addition, you can prove they have the tools and systems to address sensitive data compliantly. Page 38

Collectively, we have been building the Advantage Co for over 140 years. Today, Mike DeJoy, Al Walters, and Ron Bellus operate the Advantage Co’s most enduring independently owned and operated business, Lifetime Service & Solutions. Lifetime Service has always had a special place in the history of the Advantage Co. While always relied on and intrinsically a part of the Advantage Experience, Lifetime Service has always kept an optimal distance from the mayhem of the rest of the Advantage Co. Along with senior managers Joe Switniewski and Jim Berent, they revel in their iconoclastic operation. Page 39

Lifetime Service & Solutions I Repair Solutions Mike DeJoy . Audio Al Walters . Ron Bellus . Joe Switniewski . Jim Berent Lifetime Service & Solutions is an ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001:2015 certified organization. We develop turnkey solutions to securely handle items with sensitive personal or enterprise data during the recovery, repair, refurbishment, and recycling processes. We help highly regulated industries such as insurance, finance, healthcare, and education mitigate looming cybersecurity risks when handling aging and depreciated organization-owned devices. Data Security Our ISO 9001-certified process controls were the first step in safeguarding devices while under our roof. But the proliferation of data breach news prompted a corporate initiative to set the standard for cybersecurity mitigation in our industry. The ISO/IEC 27001 standard was a natural extension of our core competency in process accuracy. From benign streaming passwords on your Smart TV to sensitive personal identifiable information [PII] on your tablet or laptop, the need to protect your data is ubiquitous. Over the past 3 years, we have invested heavily in continuous monitoring equipment and software to avoid viruses, malware, network intrusion, and network vulnerabilities. Designing infrastructure based on the move of data to the Azure cloud, adding highly available firewall solutions from Sophos, and monitoring solutions from Tenable, all have contributed to a successful ISO/IEC 27001 certification and a safe environment for our customers. Service Offerings Of course, we have not left our roots in consumer electronics behind. Amongst the range of services we offer to the aforementioned verticals and also to electronics manufacturers are: ● Technical repair and refurbishment of consumer electronics, computing/printing devices, gaming and VR equipment, music equipment, and drones. In addition to mitigating claims costs for Third Party Administrators [TPAs], we extend product lifecycles for manufacturers [OEMs] by economically creating salable inventory from their defective and returned items. ● Secure management of end-user data throughout the cycle of product involvement on a granular basis. This is evident by an order accuracy rate that exceeds 99.99%, which is audited by our customers on a weekly basis. ● A category-based repair cell structure that separates triage, part installation, testing, and quality control, giving customers a level of feedback not duplicated in our industry. ● A flexible ERP system that provides RTI on a per-unit basis across many platforms. ● The ability to create replacement solutions for uneconomical repairs. This first-of-its-kind depot solution allows our customers to realize internal savings by eliminating an entire level of administration. An important by-product is the savings of customer turnaround time, which has led to a measurable increase in NPS results. ● The ability to control vertical markets on key product lines. Lifetime has developed exclusive relationships with global OEMs, creating depot-level control for our customers, while warehousing and distributing the OEM part supply chain to decrease repair time by up to 90%. ● Industry-leading repair turnaround times augmented by the ability to create a reclaimed parts inventory that minimizes repair times. Page 40

Sustainability In 2022, our services prevented 2.4MM lbs. of e-waste from reaching a landfill. Responsible device lifecycle management enables the Circular Economy by prioritizing repair or recycling of electronics to return them to the supply chain. We support the Circular Economy with a security-first mindset: helping customers reduce environmental impacts and information security risks by responsibly handling devices containing PII, protecting or securely destroying data, reducing waste, and extending device lifecycles. Lifetime Service Center Background and Capabilities The LTS Leadership Team has a history of being a leading-edge technical service provider to the consumer electronics industry. The company's leadership has combined experience within the industry of over one hundred fifty years. Our management team has demonstrated the ability to build a technically astute workforce that is a blend of experience and youth with a culture built around providing high-value-added customer service. LTS has a demonstrated history of success which is built around the development of proprietary intellectual capital, which, in addition to continuing to run the organic business, is scalable across the whole of the North American marketplace. It is this collection of experience, technical, and logistics skills within the LTS organization that allows the company to differentiate itself. We make the difficult appear easy as well as reliable to our customers. The management of LTS has been approached by its largest customers, with who it enjoys long-term constructive relationships, to determine how LTS can enhance its capabilities across the country in order to accelerate those customers [who are market leaders] newly developing growth strategies. This presents an opportunity for LTS to build upon its positive legacy relationships with a defensible long-term strategic capability. These same customers have approached Lifetime regarding expanding our model to additional categories while also expressing a need for us to add locations. Page 41

AP Professionals of Phoenix I Executive Staffing Jerry Tenenbaum Since its inception in 1993, AP Professionals has delivered staffing solutions to a wide array of Fortune 500 corporations and privately held businesses in the Accounting, Finance, IT, Engineering, Healthcare, Operational Excellence, Sales, Marketing, Human Resources, Legal, and Administrative disciplines. AP Professionals is a national company with a regional focus. Our industry specialists, paired with our hands-on approach, enable AP to provide the best possible staffing solutions. We value our reputation for excellence and the relationships we have built between clients and candidates. Our goal is to build relationships that last a lifetime. We strive to meet this goal by providing exceptional service to both our Clients and Candidates. “We are now halfway through our 24th year. Last year, we hit 406 placements, which was astonishing. I thought it would be the record that stood forever. Wrong again. Halfway through 2022, we are at 189 placements, and historically, our second half has always been better than the first six months. And we have $765k in perm placement business, which is about $200k more than we ever had in a full year.” - Jerry Tenenbaum, Managing Partner, AP Phoenix July 11, 2022 iWorld Professionals I Tech Staffing Guylaine DiSalvo By developing iWorld Professionals from our original Advantage Systems Professionals partnership, Guylaine DiSalvo has created a remarkable worldwide staffing resource. For the last two decades, Guylaine has successfully filled strategic roles for some of the largest and most successful companies around the world, and over that time, we’ve built strong relationships with talented professionals that now comprise iWorld’s Professionals deep and powerful candidate pool and bench of consulting talent. Guylaine and her team have placed countless candidates successfully in positions ranging from IT, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, and other disciplines. Today, the need for experienced talent in professional, technical, and executive positions has never been greater. iWorld Professionals has redefined the value proposition received through our unique recruiting and professional staffing and placement services. Guylaine’s iWorld Professionals team provides a customized approach for each and every client and candidate interaction that integrates their goals and the way they work. Throughout the entire engagement process, clients receive a personalized experience that ensures that their goals are met with every step of the recruiting, selection, and hiring process. iWorld Professionals’ clients rely on our pre-screened and qualified candidate database and our world-class recruitment capabilities to quickly and accurately secure the right talent to fit each specific job requirement. Page 42

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APXGlobal.org I Building an International Agency Our Mission At APX Global, we are dedicated to creating an inclusive and effective global network that aligns with the values of our clients while promoting growth and profitability. Our mission is to deliver exceptional global staffing and human resource services while fostering collaborative relationships that contribute to our clients' success. APX Global aims to be a leading international staffing and human resource provider specializing in connecting clients with top-tier talent worldwide. Our APX Global team comprises seasoned professionals with extensive knowledge and experience in the executive staffing industry. We understand the ever-evolving market dynamics and leverage our expertise to stay ahead of the curve and deliver outstanding results for our Partners and clients. APX Global Executive Staffing Partner Program One of the key offerings of APX will be the APX Executive Staffing Partner Program. APX Global’s Executive Staffing Partnership Program is a mutually beneficial arrangement that will allow APX to leverage external Partners for global market access while providing Partners with the opportunity to extend their market reach, provide additional resources to their clients, grow top-line revenue, and increase profits. APX Global Partnerships APX Global’s Executive Staffing Partnership is a dynamic and innovative program with a strong vision to connect organizations and candidates worldwide with the best executive staffing and human resource solutions. With a focus on building powerful international relationships, APX Global aims to empower a multi-national network of clients, recruiters, staffing firms, and trusted advisors to unlock new opportunities and generate new revenue streams with the introduction of our APX Global Partnerships. Through the APX Global Partnerships, participants will gain direct access to our extensive resources, helping them unlock new opportunities, diversify their service offerings, expand their market reach, and develop additional revenue streams that can easily be built on their current client relationships and business models. This program will be made available to staffing and human resource providers, as well as trusted advisors in various sectors, including accounting, insurance, wealth management, financial advisory, and legal services. An APX Global Partnership will provide these service providers, professional firms, and authorized agents [“Partners”] with permanent, temporary, and contract staffing solutions, along with a range of additional human resource services. With no upfront costs, our Contingency-Fee APX Global Executive Staffing Service allows our Partners to meet their clients’ staffing needs while focusing on providing high-quality candidates. We work collaboratively with our Partners and their clients to facilitate the recruitment and direct placement of qualified executives, ensuring prompt results that support the effectiveness of their leadership teams. Page 44

APXGlobal.org I Staffing Services APX Global excels in talent acquisition by leveraging our extensive network and industry knowledge to identify and attract exceptional candidates for our clients. We understand the importance of finding the right talent to drive business success, and we employ targeted strategies to match our clients with the most qualified professionals. APX Global prioritizes the reliability of the candidates we provide our clients. 1. Comprehensive Candidate Screening APX conducts thorough candidate screenings to assess their qualifications, experience, skills, veracity, and cultural fit. This process involves initial interviews, resume evaluations, and in-depth assessments tailored to specific job requirements. By carefully evaluating candidates, we continue to ensure that only the most qualified and fully vetted individuals are presented to our clients. 2. Reference Checks APX conducts diligent reference checks to verify the candidates' employment history, performance, and professional reputation. By reaching out to previous employers, APX gathers valuable insights that help validate the candidates' abilities and ensure their suitability for the desired roles. 3. Behavioral and Skills Assessments APX Global Executive Testing [APX Testing] provides custom-designed personality assessments to help organizations with a variety of key staff, customer, and supplier functions and relationships. Our proprietary assessment tools are tailored to each client's unique needs and objectives, whether that's identifying top talent for key roles, developing high-potential employees, managing organizational change, building teaming partnerships, or aligning teams for maximum effectiveness. No two organizations are exactly alike, so we work closely with each client to develop personalized assessment solutions that align with our client's specific hiring, development, business relationship, and management needs. By deeply customizing every aspect of the assessment process, APX Testing is able to deliver a truly bespoke solution that is perfectly aligned with each client's unique talent, relationship management priorities, and organizational culture - and we provide expert interpretation and actionable insights to guide people decisions. This level of customization is a key differentiator of our services. 4. Employer Branding and Marketing Our team will assist businesses in enhancing their employer brand and effectively marketing their job opportunities to attract high-caliber candidates. Through strategic online platforms, video interviews, social media campaigns, and targeted networking, we ensure our clients' job openings receive maximum exposure to the right talent pools. 5. Temporary and Contract Staffing APX will offer flexible staffing solutions for businesses with short-term or project-based needs. Page 45

With an extensive pool of pre-screened candidates, we are able to quickly identify and deploy qualified professionals who can seamlessly integrate into our clients' teams. 6. Compliance and Legal Support AGR understands the complexities of managing employment compliance across different countries. With AGR, APX will provide expert guidance on labor laws, employment contracts, and compliance requirements, ensuring our clients operate within legal frameworks and mitigate risks. 7. Industry Expertise APX provides experienced recruiters and industry specialists with in-depth knowledge of various sectors. Our expanded expertise allows us to understand the specific skills, qualifications, and attributes required for different positions. This knowledge enables us to identify candidates with the requisite expertise and industry-specific knowledge. 8. Global Network and Database By building an extensive global network and an up-to-date database, APX Global will have access to an even larger pool of talented professionals. We will leverage this international network and database to identify and engage with candidates who meet our client's unique requirements. 9. Ongoing Evaluation and Feedback APX will maintain a continuous feedback loop with our clients to assess the performance and compatibility of the candidates we place. This feedback will help us monitor the effectiveness of our candidate selection process and make any necessary adjustments to ensure client satisfaction. 10. Industry Reputation and Track Record APX has built a reputation for delivering high-quality talent solutions. Our track record of successful placements and satisfied clients attests to our commitment to excellence. Our client testimonials and case studies serve as indicators of our ability and success. 11. Visa and Immigration Support Navigating the complexities of visa and immigration procedures can be daunting. APX and AGR offer comprehensive visa and immigration support services. We will guide businesses through the intricacies of international hiring and ensure compliance with relevant regulations. AGR will handle the paperwork, streamline the process, and minimize legal risks for our clients. 12. Cross-Cultural Training We recognize the significance of cultural competence in today's global work environment. Our cross-cultural training programs will empower businesses and employees to understand and adapt to different cultural norms, fostering effective collaboration and communication across borders. 13. Executive Search and Headhunting For critical leadership roles and specialized positions, APX will provide executive search and headhunting services. With APX, we already have a proven track record of identifying and attracting top-tier talent from around the world, helping businesses secure exceptional executives who can drive growth and innovation. Page 46

14. Advantage Global Resources Backed by a wealth of support resources and expertise, APX Global leverages its vast international network to provide comprehensive and tailored staffing solutions. With Advantage Global Resources, we have developed a robust infrastructure to support both temporary and permanent executive staffing engagements on a global scale. Advantage Global Resources astute backend support of its international clients has positioned us to realize the opportunities as a fully functional support resource for a variety of business operations, providing APX Global’s partnerships with the resources and opportunity to expand exponentially. In addition to our exceptional executive staffing solutions, APX Global goes beyond expectations by offering a range of value-added services. We collaborate with Advantage Global Resources in areas such as accounting, insurance, wealth management, financial advice, and legal expertise to provide comprehensive support for our teaming partners, authorized agents, and clients. 15. Personalized Support At APX, we understand that each individual has unique career aspirations and requirements. That's why we provide personalized support throughout the job placement process. Our dedicated team of recruiters and advisors take the time to understand the skills, preferences, and goals of each candidate referred by our participating agents. We strive to match them with the most suitable job opportunities, ensuring a high level of satisfaction and success. 16. Nurturing Professional Relationships APX Global values the importance of fostering long-lasting professional relationships. When a participating partner refers a candidate for a job placement, we not only prioritize their immediate placement needs but also invest in building a lasting connection. By maintaining ongoing communication and support, we aim to be a trusted partner for both the referring partner and the placed candidate, fostering a sense of loyalty and collaboration. 17. Streamlined Processes Our cutting-edge technology and streamlined processes enable us to deliver efficient and seamless staffing solutions. From the initial candidate referral to the final placement, we leverage automation and digital tools to simplify the recruitment process, saving time and ensuring accuracy. This allows our participating agents to focus on what they do best – connecting talented individuals with rewarding job opportunities. 18. Continuous Learning and Development APX Global is committed to the professional growth and development of our partnerships. We provide access to ongoing training programs, industry insights, and best practices to help partners enhance their skills and stay at the forefront of the staffing industry. By investing in our partners’ growth, we ensure that they are equipped with the knowledge and tools necessary to excel in their role as talent connectors. Page 47

APXGlobal.org I Expanded Human Resource Services At APX, we are committed to providing comprehensive solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of our clients. As part of our commitment, APX Global is excited to announce the expansion of our HR services. Our new offerings are designed to streamline HR processes, enhance workforce management, and support our clients in achieving their business objectives. We are committed to being a trusted partner in our clients’ HR journey, helping them to navigate the complexities of today’s workforce landscape. Expanded Human Resource Services By expanding our human resource services, APX Global aims to provide our clients with a holistic approach to workforce management. Our comprehensive offerings are designed to enhance operational efficiency, improve employee satisfaction, and support our clients in achieving their strategic goals. 1. Recruitment Process Outsourcing [RPO] We can now manage the entire recruitment process for our clients, from sourcing candidates to onboarding. Benefits: ○ Reduced time-to-hire ○ Access to a larger talent pool ○ Cost-effective recruitment solutions 2. Employee Onboarding Solutions APX delivers comprehensive onboarding programs that facilitate the smooth integration of new hires into the organization. Benefits: ○ Enhanced employee retention rates ○ Improved new hire productivity ○ Streamlined onboarding processes 3. Performance Management Systems APX can help develop and implement performance management frameworks that align individual goals with organizational objectives. Benefits: ○ Continuous feedback mechanisms ○ Enhanced employee engagement ○ Data-driven performance assessments 4. Training and Development Programs Our customized training solutions will address skill gaps and foster professional growth. Benefits: ○ Improved employee skill sets ○ Increased job satisfaction and retention ○ Tailored learning paths for various roles 5. HR Compliance and Risk Management Page 48

APX and AGR provide support in navigating complex HR regulations and compliance issues, including labor laws and workplace policies. Benefits: ○ Reduced legal risks ○ Up-to-date compliance practices ○ Peace of mind for management 6. Compensation and Benefits Consulting APX provides a global perspective to the analysis and design of competitive compensation packages and employee benefits programs. Benefits: ○ Attraction and retention of top talent ○ Enhanced employee satisfaction ○ Alignment of compensation strategies with market trends 7. Employee Engagement and Retention Strategies With our customized cognitive and conative testing, we can dramatically improve employee engagement and success while reducing turnover. Benefits: ○ Increased employee morale and productivity ○ Better workplace culture ○ Long-term retention of valuable talent 8. Workforce Planning and Analytics Strategic workforce planning services that utilize data analytics to forecast hiring needs and optimize staffing levels. Benefits: ○ Data-driven decision-making ○ Proactive talent management ○ Alignment of workforce strategies with business goals 9. Outplacement Services With our customized cognitive and conative testing, we can support organizations undergoing layoffs or restructuring, providing resources and guidance to affected employees. Benefits: ○ Compassionate transitions for employees ○ Enhanced company reputation ○ Support for affected workers in finding new opportunities 10. Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Consulting services to help organizations create inclusive workplaces and promote diversity in meritorious hiring practices. Benefits: ○ Enhanced company culture ○ Improved innovation and creativity ○ Broader talent pool Page 49

BPX Executive Staffing I Making a Difference Katherine Ragusa BPX Executive Staffing is the first pillar of the BPM mission to change the color of executive suites and boardrooms in America and around the world.. BPX Executive Staffing is built on the premise that if we can secure the opportunity to fill an executive opening for an organization with the best Black candidate, we will begin to change the color of the executive suite while enhancing the aspiration of everyone of color within the organization. While most major organizations are dismantling their diversity and inclusion programs, many are now left with nothing more than placating rhetoric and no clear path forward to fulfill their promises. Fortunately, BPM offers organizations immediate resources to demonstrate real action and immediate and substantive results. With BPM, our representatives and teaming partners are knocking on open doors. BPM is in the right place, at the right time, with the right solutions. Every organization can benefit from BPM's instant staffing solutions to effectuate immediate change in the color of its executive level. Nothing will give them more positive returns throughout their organization, community, or marketplace than the timely inclusion of more Black executives. BPX Executive Staffing Partnership Program As mentioned above, most large organizations are addressing their racial bias issues, but despite their efforts, they still lack something that effectively creates immediate, productive, and visible impact [based on merit], like our BPX Executive Staffing Program. With no up-front costs, our Contingency-Fee BPX Executive Staffing Service enables organizations to achieve their staffing goals with an intentional focus on providing exceptional Black candidates to the pool from which to select. BPX Executive Staffing works with organizations collaboratively to recruit and direct-place qualified Black candidates with at the executive level. BPX Executive Staffing focuses explicitly on delivering immediate results to support the diversification of an organization's executive suite. Page 50

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Advantage Legal & Fiduciary I Attorney Network Mission Statement In memory of Frank, Advantage Legal & Fiduciary will eventually be developed as a consulting services organization that will provide access to strategic legal representation with comprehensive oversight and financial review for our clients worldwide. We will provide our clients with the most advantageous representation available for them through our worldwide network of legal and financial resources. In order to meet our mission goals, the cornerstone of everything we do will be based upon and completed with an eye toward the best possible client services, with a forecast toward the most efficient and effective resolution possible, taking into consideration the expectations of the client to meet those needs along the way. Key to our oversight and protection we will provide is having a fully engaged and proactive legal resource. This includes making referrals and providing access to clients and partners for legal services that require unique and specialized attention from practitioners who are elite in their field. From the very beginning, Frank Gaglione [pictured on previous page] and I envisioned Advantage Legal & Fiduciary as a local, regional, national, and international clearinghouse and broker of appropriate best-of-class legal and financial services. Our goal was to attract potential clients - and then deliver the most advantageous legal and financial resources specific to their needs. Today, I hope to build Advantage Legal & Fiduciary on Frank’s vision and legacy of excellence. As a consulting services organization, Advantage Legal & Fiduciary will provide access to strategic legal representation with comprehensive oversight and financial review for our clients worldwide. We will provide our clients with the most advantageous representation available for them through a worldwide network of legal and financial resources. This unique approach will allow us to effectively provide access to appropriate legal representation for all kinds of law. Advantage Legal & Fiduciary’s primary service will be as a clearinghouse, broker, gatekeeper, and reviewer of legal and financial services for our clients. Additionally, Advantage Legal & Fiduciary will provide a much-needed [and often lacking] financial review and oversight for all of our client's legal considerations. In most cases, an accountant provides outsourced services to clients in support of claims and litigation - and this, more often than not, is inadequate. The fact is that most legal issues are financial, and Advantage Legal & Fiduciary will provide access to the type of fiduciary services our clients require for maximum financial results. Page 52

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Ragusa Executive Solutions I Strategic Services Alison Ragusa . Juliana Ragusa . Katherine Ragusa At RxS, we are architects of transformation, shaping the future of business innovation. Our creative and collaborative network of teaming partners and resource agents is the bedrock of our success. We are not just connectors; we are solution providers. The RxS network embodies unique expertise that enables us to cater to a variety of business needs. Your growth is our mission, and our network is the catalyst. As founding partners of RxS, Alison, Katherine, and Juliana’s creative approach, innovative perspective, and insightful guidance help organizations transform and stay ahead of the competition. Our natural ability to devise original solutions to challenges sets us apart. At RxS, we specialize in executive recruiting solutions centered on Character Strength competencies and talent development. Our dedication is to connect organizations with leaders who embody robust Character Strength attributes, fostering their continual growth and advancement. Additionally, RxS offers unparalleled access to strategic C-level executives on a part-time or advisory basis. This forward-thinking approach enables businesses to harness executive leadership and experience without the constraints of a full-time commitment, unlocking new possibilities for growth and success. In the realm of Brand Development, we are visionary creators, breathing life into concepts and forging market-defining brands. With a decade-long immersion in the clean beauty sector, we've mastered the art of navigating regulations and compliance, ensuring our brands shine in an era where quality and purity matter most. We have facilitated brand positioning at: Bergdorf Goodman, Whole Foods Market, Erewhon Market, Wegmans, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Revolve, Barneys New York, Fontainebleau Miami, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, Douglas Cosmetics (Germany, Netherlands, Italy, and Poland), Lane Crawford, Amazon, TMall, etc. RxS continues to adeptly cultivate premium beauty brands across renowned retail landscapes in the United States, Europe, and Asia, but now, we are turning much of our focus to the forefront of data innovation, where we are dedicated to bringing PremCloud's revolutionary Ai Data Detect tool to the market. Welcome to the world of data empowerment. Recognizing data as a precious asset, we excel in modernizing archives, curing dark data, and bridging the gap to next-generation data management. Moreover, we present opportunities for potential acquirers and investors seeking valuable tech companies. Alison Ragusa With a steadfast dedication to wellness, Alison is also a Global Wellness Institute Ambassador and a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach with an Advanced Alumni degree from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Her continued education includes 'Lifestyle Medicine' from Harvard, 'The Science of Well-Being' from Yale, and 'Positive Psychology and Well-Being' from Stanford. Her dynamic journey spans culinary excellence as a chef in Florence, Italy, entrepreneurship as the founder of premium clean beauty brands, and recognition at prestigious events including FounderMade [Thought Leader, “How To Build an Innovative Beauty Brand,” Moderated by Forbes], Neiman Marcus [Meet the Founders + Experts Event], NewBeauty [Featured Expert], Luxury Meets Cannabis Conference [Visionary Founder], and Barneys New York [One 2 One Designer Event, featuring leading new designers]. Page 54

Black Progress Matters I Business Incubator The third pillar of our BPM mission is our Business Incubator Program. The BPM Founding Partners have pledged BPM’s entire profits to this ambitious program. Already, BPM is engaged in the incubation and financing of several significant start-ups, including UnBiasIt, Katini Skin, Cocoa by CeCe, Walker Sports Audit, Black Progress Alliance, and BPM College Advisory Program. Most importantly, all of the profits from BPM’s share of these partnerships go entirely to fund even more BPM incubated businesses. The potential of our BPM programs and start-ups is limitless. Each opportunity will encourage additional investment, but we are confident that the profits of BPM will provide substantial start-up funding, but the real success will come from the full engagement and business energy provided by the minority ownership. BPM Business Incubator Mission Statement At BPM, we create remarkable value for our portfolio of incubated businesses by providing strategic investment and operating guidance. We work collaboratively to ensure advantageous market positioning, sustainable growth, and a clear plan for funding and development while producing outstanding, risk-adjusted returns for all stakeholders. BPM advises our incubated businesses on a full range of liquidity transactions ranging from early-stage growth capitalization [which blends the best elements of venture capital and private equity] to a minority sale to a majority recapitalization with a financial sponsor. Additionally, BPM has the resources to structure the most advantageous exit, whether it be a full sale to a financial or strategic acquirer, a merger, or an IPO. With expertise and investments in data management, cloud architecture, professional services, social benefit, and beauty and wellness, BPM is uniquely positioned to create significant financial returns and meaningful social impact for each of our incubated businesses, as well as the fulfillment of their founder’s vision. At BPM, we recognize that most organizations possess an entrepreneurial zeal to create a business or social dynamic that transcends monetary value while unavoidably accepting the financial requirements of turning their vision into reality. Often, a vision has value well before it generates revenue or profits. Accordingly, everyone at BPM works to unlock the inherent and full value of our incubated businesses throughout the entire life cycle - from initial development to purposeful funding to ongoing productivity to a potential exit strategy. Page 55

M&L Devine Resources I BPM Incubated Business Calvin Blackmon “Recruiting has afforded me the opportunity to build lifelong relationships with some extraordinary people. From corporate recruiting to recruiting a player to play college athletics to placing some of the top executives in c-suite roles, the journey has been amazing.’ - Calvin Blackmon, Founding Partner The partnership with Calvin has been one of the year's highlights. Not only has Calvin been instrumental in opening new accounts, ie. McGraw Hill and PwC, but through our partnership with him, we are creating a template for future BPX Teaming Partners. Additionally, Calvin has been busy building out his network of teaming partners for M&L. M&L Devine Resources is committed to finding the next great leader who will take your organization and transform it into a powerhouse. Executive Search When you're looking for a new leader, we have the experience and expertise to find that perfect fit. We'll work with each candidate from the beginning until completion, so there's no need to worry about anything else but getting results. Professional Search Our recruitment services help you pinpoint the best candidate for your business. Our team of experts will help you identify which professional is most likely to be successful long-term with your company based on their specific skill set. Functions We Serve Corporate Affairs . Financial Officers . Human Resources . Legal . Sales & Marketing . Logistics . Supply Chain . Transportation . Technology Officers Incubated by BPM M&L Devine Resources has received its initial funding as a BPM Incubated Business. Page 56

UnBiasIt I BPM Incubated Business Dean Haynesworth . Katherine Ragusa Click here: https://www.unbiasit.com/ UnBiasIt was built to be the world's most advanced technology company. Dean's vision was to focus entirely on the technology that UnBiasIT would own - and we did. PremCloud delivered UnBiasIt their Custom-Built Unified Data Stack for $4.5M and an equity position in the company. Ronan Curran and the entire PremCloud Resources development team worked purposely to deliver the most advanced data technologies in the market with a demanding attention to eliminating bias in communication and data stores. UnBiasIt utilizes proprietary data management, monitoring, and compliance solutions designed to fully enable an organization to recognize and eliminate inherent bias and misconduct throughout their enterprise - as well as transform their distended data into a resource that can easily and accurately be drawn upon when needed for the critical information governance that is increasingly demanded of every enterprise. Additionally, we engaged Robert Keus and his BRTHRS team from the Netherlands for the development of the UnBiasIt Writing App and the Zantaz team for the development of the UnBiasIt Alert. The UnBiasIt Alert is built on Zantaz's Supervisor technology which provides communications monitoring and compliance that allows you to proactively review and interrogate any electronic message to ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate risk, and maintain internal standards of behavior. Put it all together, and we are confident that we have delivered on Dean's vision. And now, Dean is looking for a strategic partner who can successfully bring these remarkable technologies to market. Accordingly, we have begun to take UnBiasIt to market for acquisition. Acquisition UnBiasIt has been specifically built and positioned to sell to a strategic buyer who appreciates the value of our market position as well as the significant value of our proprietary IP. Page 57

Walker Sports Audit I BPM Incubated Business Doug Whaley . Mary Beth Lydon . Katherine Ragusa You know who’s watching your money, but who is watching them? Embezzlement, theft, damage, and destruction come from all directions in a constant storm. It seems like everyone has their hand in the cookie jar. Through our third-party reviews and audits, Walker Sports Audit ensures you are receiving performance from your trusted advisors that you can knowingly trust. In short, we watch the people watching your money and investments. Walker Sports Audit is an independent third-party audit and recovery service that autonomously evaluates your entire portfolio of endorsements, contracts, investments, compliance, insurance, and tax reporting for a fixed and/or contingency fee. No Walker Sports Audit service provider will ever be allowed to be engaged by our clients beyond our WSA engagement and will never solicit clients beyond our audit, review, recovery, and monitoring services. WSA simply offers our clients very necessary third-party services with a critical degree of separation that ensures no compromising agenda or misplaced loyalties. Although WSA will initially be addressing athletes and celebrities, we feel our independent review, audit, recovery, and continuous monitoring services will also prove valuable to clients who have considerable estates with little limited business acumen or experience. Estates acquired through inheritance or divorce are particularly at risk from unscrupulous or indifferent fiduciary oversight. There are four main components of our WSA services: Independent Forensic Review & Audit, Advacovery’s Recovery of Funds, Continuous Financial Monitoring, and WSA Advisor Rating. Walker Sports Audit has created its Retirement Preparatory Review in conjunction with the NFL to provide a full optic and comprehensive review of a player’s current financial position prior to or during retirement. This past November, Troy Vincent set us up with Tracy Perlman, SVP of Football Communications and Marketing, to launch our WSA Retirement Prepatory Review with 10 NFL Legends. Mary Beth Lydon has begun the RPR program with 5 of the 10, and we look forward to continuing to grow this relationship with the NFL. Page 58

Katini Skin I BPM Incubated Business Katini Yamaoka “Selfcare is an essential part of life. By caring for ourselves, we can go out into the world and mirror that love and tenderness with others - this is why I created Katini Skin. To provide a space for people to discover nature's luxuries. So we can all enhance and nourish our lives while being gentle to the planet.” - Katini Yamaoka, Founder, Katini Skin Katini Skin was founded by Katini Yamaoka. Katini’s cultural heritage and upbringing are interwoven through Japan, Africa, and Australia. Raised plant-based from birth and educated at a neo-humanistic school, Katini was gifted with an understanding of natural healing from a very young age. Going from the dense Australian rainforest to the cosmopolitan metropolis of New York as a working artist has given Katini an intrinsic understanding of wellness and design. Katini’s dedication to her artistry has allowed her to travel the world performing for organizations such as Forbes 30 Under 30 to the United Nations Australia. Katini resides in New York and is dedicated to representing empowerment through her voice and platform. Katini Skin is committed to a responsible and sustainable path. Nature provides, so we have to protect and support the natural world with ethical best practices. We choose suppliers based on their sustainability credentials, that are fair-trade certified, vegan, and cruelty-free. We seek wild-harvested ingredients whenever possible. Katini Skin is deeply committed to positively impacting the natural world and believes every step must be carefully placed, from sourcing, production, and packaging, to ensure we have a sustainable strategy. Katini Skin is also a committed partner of BPM. Page 59

Katini Skin launched this past February with Saks Fifth Avenue. Katini and the team hosted a very well-attended launch party at NeueHouse in late February and, from there, built up an incredible lineup of press from Allure, Vogue, Marie Claire, Byrdie, Elle, and more. In the year's second half, Katini secured her first round of investment from Chris Stadler, which she closed in mid-September. During this time, we also launched at Bergdorf Goodman. To close out the year, Katini began a relationship with Maison Mkt, a great digital marketing firm, and opened Neiman Marcus as a new account which will formally begin at the start of 2023. All in all, the brand could not be more well-positioned. “Each oil has been carefully crafted using some of the world's most powerful flora. From indigenous plants in Australia to delicate flowers in Japan. Katini Skin is focused on sustainability and high design, our elegant packaging will unfold the pure essence of nature's luxuries.” – Katini Yamaoka, Founder/CEO Cocoa by CeCe I BPM Incubated Business CeCe Olisa CeCe Olisa is taking her body positive messaging and platform and bringing it to the world of beauty. “In my experience, confidence doesn’t build my daily routine; my everyday routine builds my confidence. Women often ask me, how do I love my body? I believe that love is a verb – it’s an action word. So the best way to begin loving your body is to start taking care of it. I created the Doll Butter to celebrate the routine of self-love and self-care – beneficial for both the skin and the soul.” - CeCe Olisa, Founder In 2008, CeCe launched her blog about fashion, fitness, dating, and living in New York City from a curvy girl’s perspective. When speaking about her journey, CeCe states, “From the beginning, I’ve had a community of passionate and insightful women who have come along with me on my journey.” With her ever-growing following, CeCe’s passion led her to work with industry leaders including NIKE, LOFT, Bloomingdales, Olay, Secret Deodorant, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Amazon, and so many more. Named one of the “Top 10 New York Fashion Bloggers” by WhoWhatWear and a “person who proves you can be fit at any size” by MTV.com, CeCe Olisa is co-Founder of theCURVYcon, a convention celebrating body positivity and plus size fashion during New York Fashion Week. For her next chapter, CeCe switches lanes from fashion influencer to beauty entrepreneur, partnering with BPM to launch her brand Cocoa By CeCe. CeCe’s mantra to build confidence and empower women to feel beautiful is instilled in the DNA of Cocoa By CeCe. CeCe celebrated a successful launch event in Brooklyn, NY, this past Mother’s Day and launched her second product, the Self-Love SZantazr Scrub, this past November at Penske Media’s highly anticipated LA3C festival. Page 60

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Giancarlo’s I Buffalo News Review Anthony Giancarlo Ragusa . Gabriela Ragusa https://www.giancarlossteakhouse.com/ At Giancarlo's Sicilian Steakhouse, a first-class brigade holds the fort. Buffalo News Review . Andrew Galarneau . August 2, 2022 . All photos by Minh Connors For the last few months, I’ve been wondering if the era of squadron service in glitzy surroundings had gone the way of the buggy whip. Watching the crack team at Giancarlo’s Sicilian Steakhouse perform their ballet des tables smoothly while delivering plates of well-crafted cuisine convinced me that I feared too soon. Anthony Ragusa and sister Gabriela have been running a restaurant in a Williamsville plaza since 2011. At my first visit in 2012, I enjoyed my steak as best I could, perched on a chair at one of three high-top tables. That restaurant was the glimmering of an idea, wedged between two other concepts, a sports bar and a coffee counter. It took me a decade to return. On my revisit, the Ragusas’ full-hearted plunge into fine dining was already well underway and doing boffo crowds. Housemade pasta – even gluten-free versions – and high-performance entrees veer far off the Italian-American stereotypical menu. There’s still a bar for comfy cocktails, but a raw seafood bar, too, and one of the best-situated patios in Williamsville. None of that would matter if the battalion behind them was weak, though. Plenty of places budget more for their decorator and television commercials than retention bonuses for line cooks. I can taste the lack of commitment in the food. Sometimes, the people stuck serving it to me look like they would rather be anywhere else. Not at Giancarlo’s, where our server was so effortlessly engaging I kept wondering if there were hidden camera food television auditions afoot. The table setting didn’t include a tablecloth, but it did offer table cards introducing you to your server, with full-color portraiture and a Tiger Beat-like getting-to-know-you biography box. Giancarlo’s introduced them during the mask-wearing pandemic period since customers couldn’t really see their server’s face. Page 62

General Manager Fred Palmer with a bottle of Italian wine, and head chef Nicholas Cee with some of the pasta made daily at Giancarlo's Sicilian Steakhouse. Genevieve, a five-year employee with a University at Buffalo degree working on becoming a sommelier, ably guided our table through a menu chockablock with pleasant detours. Asking the right questions, quick with apt suggestions, she helped us have our best meal. Fluffy housemade focaccia with butter and beguilingly sweet-tangy red pepper agrodolce are highly snackable, but you might want to save ammo. Noodles rule at this steakhouse, given the work of chef Nicholas Cee, a nine-year employee, and his flour-dusted pasta crew. Corn and crab ravioli [$22.90] was a breath of summer by the sea in a pasta package tender as a love letter. Smoky-sour citrus chipotle sauce added a racy dimension. Servers wear buzzers and headsets to coordinate their deliveries. So a half-dozen oysters [$19.90] show up shortly after shucking. G’s antipasti [$22.90] presents as golden crumb-coated artichoke hearts still crispy, not wilted. The prosciutto-wrapped parcels of milky fresh mozzarella griddled to oozy and crisp-edged, on arugula with dabs of chopped tomato bruschetta, doesn’t hurt its case, either. Page 63

Giancarlo's Sicilian Steakhouse includes an oyster bar with fresh seafood. Calamari [$19.90] arrived in whisper-thin coating, rings and tentacles each with their textural payoffs. More of that red pepper agrodolce was a welcome vacation from marinara. Salmon tartare includes lemon, capers, olives, tzatziki, pita, and pine nuts at Giancarlo's. Page 64

Giancarlo’s Salmon tartare [$19.90] takes a voyage to the Greek isles. Yogurt sauces the fish, not olive oil, its lactic tenderizing power resulting in ultra-lush bites of raw salmon. Bites arranged on wedges of grilled pita bread, anointed with lemon, the briny pop of capers, pine nuts, and the yogurt-garlic-dill dip called tzatziki, got people nodding. If you’re considering taking the dive, this is an effective gateway to eating uncooked fish. Ali Babba brick oven pizza at Giancarlo's Sicilian Steakhouse includes crushed tomatoes, artichokes, fresh mozzarella, arugula, cherry tomatoes, and shaved fennel. Our Ali Babba pizza [$22.90], decked with cherry tomatoes, artichokes, fresh mozzarella, shaved fennel, and arugula, did well as a vegetarian entrée, ideal salad-pizza hybrid. Its corniciones, too crispy to throw away, found more of the red pepper sauce. Meatier versions include a Buffalo chicken [$22.90], steak with banana peppers [$24.90], and pepperoni [$22.90], drizzled with hot chile honey. A plank of properly pan-seared sea bass [$44.90], creamy at the core, came perched on risotto that was notable for both what was present [bay shrimp and chopped artichoke] and what was missing [grains cooked to characterless mush]. Giancarlo’s got the rice right. Page 65

The Godfather is a 32-ounce bone-in ribeye at Giancarlo's Sicilian Steakhouse. The steaks delivered, too, like the 17-ounce strip steak [$59.90] that arrived expertly charred without, rosy within. But this is one steakhouse where your hunger could head in many directions. Lamb chops [$42.90] were another Greek pitch that landed squarely, sporting crispy fried garbanzo beans, spice-dusted frites, along with tzatziki that every lamb chop lover secretly craves. Desserts included Key lime pie [$14.90], cannoli [$9.90], and crème brulee [$14.90], but as is often the case, the zeppole [$13.90] stole my table’s hearts. What’s better than a warm clutch of doughnuts begging to be dunked? At this restaurant, there’s just one name on the sign. But remember: Restaurants are made of people. At Giancarlo’s Sicilian Steakhouse, like a Super Tuscan, its excellence begins with a whole bunch of noteworthy grapes. Giancarlo’s Sicilian Steakhouse 5110 Main St., Williamsville [giancarlossteakhouse.com, 716-650-5566] Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday. Prices: appetizers and salads, $14.90-$22.90; entrees, $22.90-$89.90. Parking: lot Atmosphere: urban bustle Wheelchair accessible: yes Gluten-free: housemade pasta and more Outdoor dining: yes, lots Page 66

Advantage Co I Reading List Over the years, I have researched, read, written about, and embodied these fundamentals. I believe in my Root Philosophy. I believe in the merchant harvest. The books on this list all have one thing in common - their clarity. For me, the search for clarity is where knowledge begins: The Essential Drucker by Peter Drucker - He defines the purpose of business and management better than anyone before him or since. The One Minute Manager – build loyal employees [we’re all managers]. The One Minute Salesperson – build a sales strategy and loyal customers. The Art of War – build a competitive strategy and win. By defining a winning strategy, Sun Tzu’s classic on waging war emerges as one of the greatest strategic essays of all time. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli - What Sun Tzu is to war, Niccolo is to politics - hardcore and undeniable. Built to Last – build a Core Ideology and a business that lasts. One Page Management – how to manage well. Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers – handling your finances. The Mansions of Philosophy – Will Durant wrote this in 1929 as a story of human life and destiny, or, as the subtitle promises, an attempt at a consistent philosophy of life. It has been a chisel on my life. This is nourishment for the mind. An Incomplete Education – the basics for a well-rounded education. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse's great little story for the soul. Lapsing Into a Comma by Bill Walsh - Although you may have the Tweeter lingo down pat, it may help if you learn how to actually write skillfully. Tracy Allen Advantage Co Human Resources Director Page 67

Advantage Co I A Williamsville Landmark The Walker Center opened as the gateway to Williamsville, NY, in 1994, and for nearly 30 years, it has been the preeminent business, office, and fine dining center in WNY. Anchored by the nationally acclaimed Giancarlo’s Sicilian Steakhouse & Pizzeria, the Walker Center has transitioned into a vibrant tech center with several market-leading data solution tenants like PremCloud Resources and c1 Resources [serving international enterprise clients such as Lloyd’s Bank of London, Network Rail of the UK, Bloomberg, Latham & Watkins, GE, Zoom, etc.]. Since its inception, the Walker Center has also been the worldwide headquarters of the Advantage Co. And this coming August, the Walker Center will welcome the Buffalo Bills new Virtual Stadium Center. https://twitter.com/i/status/1585711163450572808 Ron Raccuia, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Buffalo Bills, told News 4. “The Walker Center in Williamsville will play host to the facility, and the Bills call the location “central to Western New York. Every fan that has a seat in the new stadium will come through the Sale Center. They’ll experience it from a virtual reality standpoint, a 360 viewing standpoint. They’ll be able to sit in their seats. They’ll be able to design where they want to sit, where they want to park and tailgate,” Page 68

Advantage Co I The Root Keeps Growing https://tonywalkerpost.com/root-philosophy/ From the very beginning in 1978, it has been my goal to provide the vision, resources, and confidence necessary for the development of the Advantage Co as a business experience for those willing to take the full measure of the challenge. This approach has energized our Root Philosophy for over 40 years, and it has been our good fortune to build a number of world-class businesses. Note: The Advantage Co is not an operating entity; it is simply an informal name that has evolved over 40 years to reference the eclectic mix of independently owned and operated businesses and partnerships that I am involved with in some manner. Likewise, there is no Tony Walker. It is also a legacy name that has evolved over the years as my nom de plume, starting with my authorship of The Third Factor [The Advantage Co Handbook]. Here is a list of the independently owned and operated businesses we have started or helped to start over the years. [176 and counting]. The businesses in italics are partnerships. The businesses in bold are currently operational. Each one has been visited by success and failure. Some businesses never really got off the ground, while others have been thriving for decades. One of these nights, I’ll start filling in the stories. The really good news is that over 50 of the businesses we have helped to launch are thriving enterprises. All told, we estimate there have been over 8,000 participants in the building of these opportunities. If you have a backstory for any of them, why not share it with me? I’ll take the good with the bad [they all have their share]. It is never meant to be easy, but it is always meant to be rewarding. A man who says he never had a chance is a man who never took one. Be big, be a builder. Page 69

Advantage Co Businesses 1. Advantage Brands Group 2. Advantage Catalog 3. Advantage Computer Co. 4. Advantage Global Resources 5. Advantage Home Theater 6. Advantage Outlet 7. Advantage Properties 8. Advantage TI 9. Advantage Trade Group 10. Advacovery 11. Aussie T Co 12. Bogavia 13. Brinkley Builders 14. Chuggs 15. Computer Head Start 16. Giancarlo’s Sicilian Steakhouse 17. Grivani Cafe & Bakery [returning] 18. Grivani Corporate Gift Giving 19. Grivani 20. Grivani Wine Cellar [returning] 21. Grivani Wine [Distributing] 22. House of Cotton 23. Forrestel Clothing Co 24. iFul 25. iSport 26. iWorldFundraising.org 27. iWorld Shopping Center 28. King Finley 29. Lab to Beauty 30. Leave It To Alison** 31. Lifetime Service 32. Love Pink & Green 33. Luxuri Link 34. Merwin & Payne 35. Modern Luxuri 36. MyWarehouse.org 37. Nantucket Clothing 38. Naples Properties 39. Osaka Speakers 40. PALM Investments 41. Piece Apparel 42. Pioneer Home Theater 43. Prato Way Management 44. Pure + Fresh 45. Scotch Boots of Holland 46. Smart Car Store 47. Smart House Cafe** 48. Smart Squad Design 49. Smart Squad Install* 50. SmartLinks 51. Sneaker Advantage 52. SONY Home Theater 53. Stereo Advantage 54. Stereo Advantage [Olean] 55. JVC Home Theater 56. Taplin Marketing 57. Tiny Walker 58. Touche’ 59. TW Outlet [Niagara Falls]** 60. TW&Co 61. Walker Center 62. Walker Kids Trust 63. Walker Global Parts 64. Walker Global Solutions 65. Wehrle Properties 66. White Box Services Page 70

Advantage Co Partnerships 1. ABX Professionals 2. Advantage Business Exchange 3. Advantage Investment & Development 4. Advantage Legal & Fiduciary 5. Advantage Marketing & Incentives 6. Advantage Systems Professionals 7. Advantage Woodshop* 8. American Wireless 9. AP Charlotte 10. AP Cincinnati 11. AP Cleveland 12. AP Denver 13. APHQ 14. AP Metro** 15. AP Phoenix 16. AP Rochester [sold to Matt Taylor]* 17. AP Solutions 18. AP Syracuse 19. AP Tampa 20. AP Washington DC 21. APX Executive Staffing 22. At Your Service 23. Aussie Outfitters 24. Autonomic Resources [sold to CSC]* 25. Beacon Global Resources 26. Bellus Development 27. BizHop [support only] 28. Black Progress Matters 29. BPX Executive Staffing 30. BPM Business Incubator 31. BP College Advisors 32. Butler Chemical 33. Cascade Point** 34. c1 Advantage 35. c1 Secure 36. Carolina Clothing Co 37. Capax Alpha 38. Capax Global [sold to Hitachi]* 39. Capax India 40. Capax Resource Management* 41. CARES Act ADVISORY 42. Chiampou Travis Besaw & Kershner* 43. Christeus 44. Cleary & Sullivan 45. Cleary Travel 46. Cocoa by CeCe 47. Consilium1 48. Cross Pointe** 49. Delta Road Properties 50. Duke Fund** 51. FedCLOUD Resources 52. Free Trade Consultants 53. Gauntlet Design 54. Greenview Landscaping* 55. GRW For Hair 56. Hudson Walker 57. Images & Graphics 58. Inspired Global Resources* 59. Irwin Lazarus 60. iWorld Professionals 61. JALMAR Graphics 62. JNorman & Co 63. KATINI Skin 64. King Finley 65. Kizer Data Solutions 66. LeCleanse Officiel 67. LD World Resources 68. Lifetime EndPoint Resources 69. LLM Data Feeder 70. Logix Hosting 71. M&L Devine Resources 72. Manzella Productions [support only] 73. My Personal Advisor 74. Mode* 75. One Global Culture 76. Outback Paging [AdTel Worldwide] 77. Pacific Data Resources 78. Panther Data Solutions Page 71

79. Phroket 80. Pizza Shoppe 81. PremCloud Resources 82. Ragusa Executive Solutions 83. Real Properties Services 84. Sceven 85. SmartGov Data Technologies 86. SmartLink [Bailey & Kensington] 87. SmartLink [Main Place Mall] 88. Sozae 89. Stereo Advantage [Phoenix] 90. Stereo Shops [3 Rochester stores]** 91. Strategic Finance 92. Taplin Design 93. Tony Walker Golf Club [4 locations] 94. Total Health & Fitness 95. Trend Depot 96. TW Charter Stores [92 Aussie Outfitters] 97. UnBiasIt 98. UnCarbonIt 99. Zantaz Capital Ventures 100. Walker Sports Audit 101. Watch Commander Data Resources 102. Watch Commander Staffing 103. Wellingtin Resources 104. White & Co 105. White Welsted McGrath 106. Wynnovation Labs 107. Zantaz EAS [Capax Discovery LLC] 108. ZiDOL Resources 109. Zantaz Data Resources 110. Zovy Cloud Coming Soon [Maybe] 1. AGR Bridge 2. Ana Blu Mediterranean Kitchen 3. Arcivium for Azure 4. APX Global 5. Aussie T Co [Retro] 6. 2 Girls 1 Deal 7. 2×4 Office Anywhere 8. Balance Bra 9. Beach to Beauty 10. Bedtime Monster Spray 11. Christian Co-Op 12. Church of the Good Looking 13. Clean Your Closets For Kids 14. College Rep Program 15. CopDrop 16. DataDisposal.ai 17. Data Detect + Connect 18. The Fantasy League 19. FedDrop 20. FedSecure Data Centers 21. FedCloud Vault 22. Forrestel Clothing Co [Retro] 23. Giancarlo’s Boutique Hotel 24. GoToCloud Express 25. Greenskeeper Co-Op 26. International Transfer Pricing 27. iWorld Accounting 28. Life Source Insurance 29. OffShore Secure 30. PickleBall Retractable Fencing 31. Scrubs 32. Walker University * No longer involved in this partnership. ** Ended successfully Page 72

Advantage Co I There Is Still A Lot To Build Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of helping to launch over 100 companies and partnerships. Whether they originated from my ideas or from the visionary partners we have collaborated with, each venture has been both enjoyable and rewarding. Success or failure was inevitably part of the journey, but it was always the challenge that brought these projects to life—and it is that very challenge that continues to drive me. There are several businesses I definitely want to launch before my career winds down. For one reason or another, they have all stalled somewhere along the way - but now that I have the resources - and hopefully the time - I want to see these 12 ambitions, in particular, come to fruition: 1. Zantaz MarketPlace For 50 years, I have wanted to launch some version of this business exchange concept that brings providers and sellers together in a robust international community. This global community will include Zantaz-authorized Agents, White Label Resellers, and Teaming Partners whose customers will benefit from the various Zantaz-authorized Provider offerings. 2. APX Global I have wanted to build an international staffing resource with trusted advisors globally for over 30 years. I also want to take it well beyond typical staffing. APX Global’s Executive Staffing Partnership will be an innovative program connecting organizations and candidates worldwide with the best executive staffing and human resource solutions. With a focus on building powerful international relationships, our APX Global Partnerships aim to empower a multi-national network of clients, recruiters, staffing firms, and trusted advisors to unlock new opportunities and generate new revenue streams. 3. AGR Bridge This comprehensive accounting, tax, audit, HR, sales, CRM, reporting, analytics, investment, review, and management solution is an essential component necessary to establish AGR as an enduring resource for the development and support of an endless array of independently owned and operated Advantage Co incubated businesses for generations. We need to remain at the forefront of technology, and PremCloud Resources is key to our ongoing ascendancy. 4. Grivani Corporate Gift-Giving Although I have always thought of myself as a merchant more than anything else, this is as close as I want to get to retail. I want to build a tasty Grivani Corporate Gift Shop at the Walker Center [and potentially locations in Naples, Florida, and Florence, Italy] as the cynosure for a global gift-giving network for individual and corporate gift-givers. The stores will be a showcase with products only as samples for ordering - not for purchase. We can also tie this in with Pam’s purchasing resources, and I think Paul Schintzius [now that he is retired] might want to participate. Juliana is already sourcing some great premium Grivani-branded gifts for this Christmas. 5. Giancarlo’s Boutique Hotel This will be a premier tenant. It will further establish the Walker Center as the elite destination in WNY. We’ll need to build an elite staff. Niagara University offers a great hospitality talent. Page 73

6. Grivani Cafe & Bakery Along with a roaster and a small shop of curated goods, this will be one more key destination point for the Walker Center, and, along with Ana Blu, has franchising potential. 7. iWorld Fundraising Zero Fee Fundraising. What about this isn’t great? iWorldFundraising.org is a free web-enabled fundraising program designed to help nonprofit organizations raise money and create awareness for their cause, all without the challenges and risks of traditional fundraising solutions and their fees. iWorldFundraising.org charges absolutely zero fees. 8. Clean Your Closet for Kids This will be a component of iWorld Fundraising. The proceeds from everything you sell on Poshmark, eBay, etc, would go to Children’s Hospital as a donation. 9. Monster Bedtime Spray I remember that Paul Newman made his salad dressing a huge success by pledging all the profits to charity. Along with Clean Your Closets for Kids, I want to pledge all of the profits from Monster Bedtime Spray to Children’s Hospital. 10. Christian Co-Op Purchasing agents for schools, churches, charities, foundations, etc., are overwhelmed when it comes to making large purchases from computers to new buildings. I want to provide a service that allows them to vet their pricing. 11. Church of the Good Looking This one is for Father Sturm. He said we were born beautiful - but the world works on our vanity, fear, ambition, insecurity, and competitiveness to convince us we aren’t in order to sell us on all the unnecessary crap we burden ourselves with. The Church of the Good Looking will provide you with a direct connection to your God. It will be just a C-corp with no tax exemption bullshit and 100% transparency. 12. Advantage Legal & Fiduciary While the Church of the Good Looking honors Fr. Sturm, this one will be for Frank. It will work with Zantaz and APX Global to network attorneys and legal and financial services for clients globally. All we need is the right attorney to partner with us - and that may just never happen. There are other opportunities I’d like to pursue, like iWorld Auto, Offshore Data Safe Haven, the Balance Bra, Walker University, the Fantasy League Bar & Grill, and Pickleball Retractable Fencing, to name a few, but the dozen above are very important to me. So that’s what I will be working on next as I wind down my participation in Zantaz Data Resources, and C1 Secure. Of course, new ideas and partnership opportunities present themselves every day - which will inevitably steal away my attention [not to mention the incredible array of businesses and partnerships we already have that are still enjoyable to help build]. All in all, it should keep me busy for the rest of my life. As for possibly retiring, I tried that back in ‘91, and we all know how that went. History tells me that retiring or investing in the stock market is clearly not for me. Be big, be a builder. Page 74

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