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James Crane Investor Relations, Capital Raises, Outsourced CFO Greater Los Angeles
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James Crane's Overview
Partner at ProActive Capital Group (f/k/a Fountain) President at Fountain Advisory Individual at Startup Mentor, Public Speaker, Board Member, Board Advisor see all Financial Advisor at BiField Business Resources Ltd. Startup Chief Financial Officer at Fusion Optix Member of Board of Directors at Commerce Planet, Inc. (now LencoMobile, Inc.) see all Bentley University Bishop Feehan High School 500+ connections
James Crane's Summary
Email: james@fntad.com
Since 2003, Mr. Crane has been directly involved in investor relations activities resulting in open market purchases of stock in excess of $1 billion and has closed capital placements and M&A transactions in excess of US$100 million involving investors from the U.S., Asia, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East. James has a broad understanding of U.S. public company matters, investor data analytics, investor lead generation and related investor targeting and communications technologies. James understands investors and maintains close contact with investors in a variety of geographies around the world. These investors can be classified as retail investors, venture capitalists, private equity funds, angels, pension funds, social investors, family offices and hedge funds, among others. James lived in Asia from
Prior to joining Proactive Capital Group, Mr. Crane founded Fountain, a data analytics and online communications-driven investor relations firm. Prior to Fountain, Mr. Crane served in executive roles, financial advisory roles and operating roles (salaried or contracted) for 16 public companies listed on the NASDAQ, NYSE and OTCBB, as well as for select startups in the U.S., China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, U.K., and India since 1999. He has significant public speaking and company representation experience and has executed business in over 20 countries during his career.
Investor relations, investor communications, investor data analytics, investor communications tools, search engine optimization, email marketing, public speaking, reverse mergers, Form 10, Form S-1, going public transactions, cloud computing, online advertising, energy technology, mining and metals, startups, international accounting, as well as a broad understanding of SEC regulations and international and U.S. securities laws, although he is not an
James Crane's Experience
ProActive Capital Group (f/k/a
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Capital Markets
October 2007 – Present (5 years 3 months) Greater Los Angeles Area ProActive Capital Group, LLC (PCG) is dedicated to adding value in the small cap and micro cap marketplace. ProActive provides customized solutions that combine traditional strategic capital market advisory services with the latest Internet, digital and social media communications. The Company’s integrated digital media and global
www.ProActiveNewsroom.com connects innovative, emerging-growth companies to the investment community using a variety of user-friendly and interactive
PCG's track record of success on selected clients (symbol and % increase in 30 day $ volume calculated as of 7/3/12 compared to 30 day $ volume for 30 days prior to PCG being hired *) is provided below:
* Calculation tables are available upon
** Company's stock did not trade at all or had almost no daily trading prior to PCG
PCG provides a variety of services: - Overall investor awareness, visibility& credibility strategy development - Crafting key strategic messages - Creating cross country retail &institutional investor roadshow - Diversifying shareholder basestrategies -Increasing retail & institutional
- Increasing analyst coverage - Investor & industry conferences
PRISM (PRoActive Integrated Strategic Messaging) is a disruptive process that leverages social and professional media sites including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,Slide Share, StockTwits, and LinkedIn. As an aggregation,distribution, and destination platform for client’s strategic messages, PRISM reaches thousands of individual,retail and institutional investors using "inboundmarketing" techniques, search engine optimization, and PRISM’s proprietary and extensive distribution
Mr. Crane merged his business interests, formerly organized as "Fountain," with
May 2006 – Present (6 years 8 months) Greater Los Angeles Area Fountain Advisory specializes in pre-going public pre-audit and pre-public trading services. We work with private companies looking to complete a going public process (S-1 or Form 10 filing, reverse merger or IPO), and 15c211 (if necessary) in a super-expedited manner. These companies generally do not have a qualified executive-level staff that have expertise and experience with technical accounting, public company audits, SEC regulations, reverse merger structuring, the reverse merger process, or public company imaging and investor relations. Our team has this expertise and experience. We offer short term consulting services to our clients and have completed our work in as little as 15 days (see BONU.ob, Bioneutral Group, Inc.). We also work with these clients in an outsourced non-titled CFO, technical accounting consulting or financial statement drafting and disclosure consulting role until they are able to hire a full time CFO. We have a strong network of pre-going public investors and will routinely act as finders for our clients, allowing our clients to raise capital both pre- and post-going public.
1. Force Protection - Defense (Acquired by General Dynamics, Inc.) 2. Newave - Online Advertising/ecommerce (Acquired by Superfly
3. Superfly Advertising - Online Advertising/ecommerce (Acquired by
4. RadioLoyalty - Online and Mobile Advertising (Acquired by StreamTrack
5. Longwei Petroleum - Oil & Gas 6. Bioneutral Group - Biotech 7. Subaye - Online Advertising/ecommerce 8. Cavu Resources - Oil & Gas 9. Clean Power Technologies - Clean
10. Far East Wind - Clean Energy 11. Siena Technologies - Computer
12. Confederate Motors - Consumer
13. Extreme Companies - Consumer
14. Bull Life - Real Estate
16. Feel Golf - Consumer Products
Startup Mentor, Public Speaker, Board Member, Board Advisor May 2001 – Present (11 years 8 months) San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong Assisting tech startups with key decision
1. Is the tech innovative enough to succeed, avoid competitive threats, and attract institutional investment? What are
2. Best exit strategy, conservative, aggressive, build IP and sell out or commit long term and build a business. What does each path require? Achievability? 3. Brand design, brand execution,
4. Business planning, business execution
Currently focused on California, New York, Hong Kong, and Boston startup markets. Previous experience in Shanghai and
December 2002 – Present (10 years 1 month)
KFE, Inc. manages multiple residential real estate assets in the greater Boston,
BiField Business Resources Ltd. April 2012 – June 2012 (3 months) Shanghai Serving as the coordinating financial advisor for BiField's southeast Asian customer base. Current trade partners are headquartered in Indonesia, Philippines, China, Singapore and Korea. Trade finance origination and execution and long term debt origination for Indonesian-based mining company with +US$5 billion in raw
Startup Chief Financial Officer
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry January 2005 – January 2009 (4 years 1
Woburn, Massachusetts Fusion Optix is an LED lighting startup. Mr. Crane compiled all necessary documentation to create a complete general ledger since the company's inception, in 2003, through 2009, in order for the auditor to complete the audits. Mr. Crane had oversight over all financial aspects of the company, supervision of capital raises, management of finances, budgeting, investor communications. Successful Series A, B and C capital raises totaling US$5.5 million.
Member of Board of Directors Commerce Planet, Inc. (now Lenco
Public Company; 51-200 employees; CPNE;
May 2007 – December 2008 (1 year 8
Santa Barbara, California Area
Partnership; 10,001+ employees; Accounting
May 1999 – May 2001 (2 years 1 month)
Senior in Assurance and Advisory Group, specialized in the TCE group (technology, communications and entertainment). Major clients included Netplane Systems (now Conexant Systems), CTC Communications (now Earthlink Business), Staples, Boston Scientific, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Biopure
James Crane's Skills & Expertise
Financial Reporting
Clean Technology
SEC filings
Securities Regulation
Analytics
Management Consulting
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