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Foreign Profit Corporation AGORA SOUTH, INC. Filing Information Document Number F94000001990 FEI/EIN Number 521878080 Date Filed 04/18/1994 State MD Status INACTIVE Last Event REVOKED FOR ANNUAL REPORT Event Date Filed 09/21/2001 Event Effective Date NONE Principal Address 14 W MT VERNON PL BALTIMORE MD 21201 US Changed 05/12/2000 Mailing Address PO BOX 1936 BALTIMORE MD 21203 US Changed 05/12/2000 Registered Agent Name & Address PERRIELLO, BARBARA 235 NE 4TH AVE SUITE 102 DELRAY BEACH FL 33483 US Name Changed: 05/12/2000 Address Changed: 05/12/2000 Officer/Director Detail Name & Address Title PC BONNER, WILLIAM 14 W MOUNT VERNON PL BALTIMORE MD 21201 Title SD BONNER, ELIZABETH 14 W MOUNT VERNON PL BALTIMORE MD 21201 Title TD DAVIDSON, JAMES 209 S LEE ST ALEXANDRIA VA Annual Reports Report Year Filed Date 1998 04/21/1998 1999 03/11/1999 2000 05/12/2000 Document Images 05/12/2000 -- ANNUAL REPORT
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Charlie Byrne Works at AGORA, Inc. Studied at Polytechnic Institute of New York University Lives in Delray Beach, Florida Knows English, German
DJ IN THE MONEY: SHEP Tech's Questionable Alliance Claims
By Carol S. Remond A Dow Jones Newswires Column
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--You'd think we're talking about sliced bread. SHEP Technologies Inc. (STLOF), a small Vancouver, British Columbia, company created less than a year ago via a merger with an Isle of Man corporation, says it has developed an experimental technology that harnesses lost energy generated when a driver steps on the brakes. That energy can then be used to offset the power needed when the vehicle accelerates again. How much of a "killer app' are we talking about? A recent newsletter - subsidized by SHEP - puts it this way: The technology "could be one of the great investment discoveries of our times - with SHEP on the edge of a potential billion dollar royalty." The newsletter, The Intrepid Investor, is a monthly, subscription publication whose self-described mission it to go "everywhere in search of sound, relatively low-risk investments." The recent edition cited above goes on to inform readers that SHEP has forged a business relationship with Ford Motor Co. (F) and major auto-parts supplier Easton Corp. (ETN). "Ford reached agreement with SHEP in 1999, and brought in the Eaton Corp.," the newsletter said. "Ford is expected to begin with medium-sized SHEP trucks in the 2005 model year." Except these business relations don't appear to exist, or at least not in the way described by the newsletter. And there are questions about the possible relationship between that newsletter and companies and people affiliated with publishing company Agora Inc. - a company facing civil charges for disseminating false information. "Ford doesn't have and has not had a formal relationship with SHEP to acquire SHEP's hydraulic launch assist technology," Mike Vaughn, a Ford spokesman said. "Ford has no plans to manufacture any vehicle using SHEP components," Vaughn added. Gary Klasen, a spokesman for Eaton, said that there is "no active relationship, and there are no agreements, between Eaton and SHEP." Early prototype models of an Eaton's own brake-assist product used some SHEP components, Klasen acknowledged, but the new generation of the product, first installed in vehicles last December, doesn't include any SHEP components or technology. Malcolm P. Burke, SHEP's president and chief executive, didn't return multiple phone calls. A SHEP investors-relations official referred all questions about Ford and Eaton to Burke. SHEP shares, which had been trading below a dollar in late May, skyrocketed to a high of $2.85 a share last week on heavy volume. The stock closed Tuesday at $1.41. According to a disclaimer on The Intrepid Investor, the SHEP content "appears as paid advertising, subsidized by SHEP and a 3rd party group to provide public awareness of SHEP." The disclaimer also says "SHEP's management have approved and signed off as 'approved for public dissemination' all statements made herein regarding SHEP's history, technology and current as well as prospective business operations." Brian Sodi, named in corporate filings as manager of Capital Financial Media LLC, The Intrepid Investor's publisher, said in an email Wednesday that each and every page of advertising material was approved for public dissemination by SHEP's president.
Behind 'The Intrepid' Masthead
The Intrepid Investor disclaimer also indicates that Capital Financial Media managed a total production budget of $898,500 for this "current and past print advertising efforts and retained, over and above the cost of production, any amounts that remain as compensation as a fee for production services. "An additional $102,500 is expected to be received over a period of approximatively two months from the current mail date for additional production costs," the disclaimer adds. In addition to these moneys, Capital Financial Media also "has received 15,000 shares of SHEP and is expected to receive up to 20,000 additional shares of SHEP." Capital Financial Media may also receive options to purchase SHEP shares for its services, according to the disclaimer. How much of these costs SHEP covered isn't spelled out in the disclaimer, and SHEP or Capital Financial Media aren't saying. But SHEP's balance sheet would suggest it doesn't have a lot of money to spend on promotions, and its auditor, Davidson & Company, has attached a going-concern statement to its latest annual report. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that SHEP raised about $1.6 million late last year and earlier this year selling shares in private placements. But SHEP shows just $69,000 in cash and cash equivalent as of the end of March, though that amount is up from $4,253 at the end of December. (SHEP also helped finance at least one other marketing effort, an electronic promotion published in MarketByte LLC's OTC Journal at a cost of $75,000, according to a disclaimer on that publication. In that case MarketByte also received 100,000 free trading shares of SHEP as payment by an unnamed third party.) There are also questions about whether Capital Financial has any relation to Baltimore publishing company, Agora, which the SEC, in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland in April, accused of scheming to defraud investors by disseminating false information. Agora last week filed a motion to dismiss the SEC suit. In a telephone voicemail message last week, Capital Financial's Sodi said that neither Agora, nor its president, William Bonner, owned or own any part of Capital Financial Media. But Luke Hodgens, a man described by Sodi in his message as one of his employees, told Dow Jones Newswires in a phone interview that there is a "slight affiliation" between Capital Financial Media and Agora. "One of the owners of Agora has a small interest in" Capital Financial Media, Hodgens said. Agora's general counsel, Matthew Turner, didn't return any of Dow Jones Newswires' phone calls. But a variety of state documents indicate a relationship between Capital Financial Media and Agora. Stay with us here. Florida corporate documents show that in January, Capital Financial Media LLC of Florida merged with Capital Financial Media LLC of Maryland. Maryland and Florida corporate documents, in turn, show that the principal office of Capital Financial Media of Maryland is 14 West Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore - which is also the main address of Agora. And Maryland corporate documents show Agora's president, William Bonner, as resident agent for Capital Financial Media of Maryland. Also, one of Agora's units, Agora Investment Conferences, is located on the same property as Capital Financial Media, in Delray Beach, Fla.
And property records in turn show that the Florida property is owned by Formano Properties of Delray Beach Inc., whose president, according to corporate records, is Mark Ford. Finally, Florida corporate records name Mark Ford as a director of Agora Travel Inc., and these same records list William Bonner, Agora's president, as a director of Agora Travel. The address for both Bonner and Ford in the Agora Travel corporate documents is that of Agora in Baltimore. Perhaps all coincidence. But investors should do a lot more legwork on SHEP before deciding it's The Next Big Thing. And they may want to seek out sources of information besides The Intrepid Investor.
(Carol S. Remond is one of four In The Money columnists who take a sophisticated look at the value of companies and their securities and explore unique trading strategies.)