ROTH Capital Partners to Co-Sponsor Bank Director’s 2012 Acquire or Be Acquired Conference

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ROTH Capital Partners (ROTH), www.roth.com, a full service investment bank recognized for providing financing and advisory services to emerging growth companies worldwide, today announced that it will co-sponsor the 2012 Acquire or Be Acquired conference to be held by Bank Director magazine at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix, Arizona from January 29-31, 2012.
John Hamel, managing director of ROTH Capital Partners’ Financial Institutions Group, will be a featured speaker at the 2012 conference. Mr. Hamel’s presentation will discuss current trends in banking and M&A, as well as provide an overview of the M&A process for financial institutions and give advice for achieving the best possible terms for shareholders.
For the past 17 years, the Acquire or Be Acquired conference has been regarded as the financial industry’s premier M&A and growth event that addresses the most critical and timely issues facing banks. The conference has provided bankers and financial executives the opportunity to learn from knowledgeable speakers through interactive sessions designed to help them explore a variety of growth options. The 2012 conference will be attended by more than 650 financial executives and feature panel discussions on M&A trends, as well as best practices on strategy, capital formation, deposit growth, dealing with criticized assets and alternatives for liquidity.
To learn more or to register to attend the conference, please contact Bank Director’s conference department at conferences@bankdirector.com.
About ROTH Capital Partners Financial Institutions Group
ROTH’s Financial Institutions (FIG) Investment Banking team brings to bear its extensive industry and transaction expertise on a wide range of growth companies within the financial services sector. With deep domain expertise in its areas of focus, the team has insight into the changing dynamics of the industry and is able to develop unique ideas and financing structures that best serve the needs of ROTH’s clients. The ROTH FIG Group focuses on the following sub-sectors: banks and thrifts; consumer finance; commercial finance; mortgage REITs; asset managers; insurance; and financial processing and outsourcing. It offers a full array of investment banking products and services, including public and private offerings of equity and debt, advisory services and recapitalizations.
About Bank Director Magazine
Bank Director Magazine is the leading information resource for senior officers and directors of financial institutions, credit unions, insurance companies and investment advisors. The quarterly publication provides readers with the tools necessary to successfully handle the governance challenges impacting boards including mergers and acquisitions, retail strategies, compensation and technology. Since its inception in 1991, Bank Director has become recognized as the essential resource for top decision makers in the financial services industry. For more information, visit http://www.bankdirector.com/.
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Digital Reasoning Raises Venture Financing for Automated Understanding of Big Data

NASHVILLE, TN–(Marketwire -12/06/11)- Digital Reasoning, a leader in understanding unstructured data at scale, today announced it has raised a Series B round with participation from In-Q-Tel, individual partners of Silver Lake, and other private investors. With this round, Digital Reasoning will add John Brennan to its board of directors. Brennan is a partner at Silver Lake Sumeru.
The investment will be used to accelerate development and expand marketing and sales into new Financial Intelligence, Enterprise Risk Management, and related markets with Synthesys®, the company’s flagship product that identifies, summarizes and reveals hidden relationships between people, places and events in big data. Currently, Synthesys is being used in government agencies to uncover security threats and enable intelligence analysts to find and act on critical relationships in big data while containing the costs of and dependence on human reading.
“Organizations in every market are looking for ways to exploit the information and intelligence embedded in unstructured data; Synthesys could be a transformational solution in the enterprise as organizations develop their big data strategies,” said John Brennan. “Digital Reasoning’s platform can go beyond its success in the government intelligence market to help enterprises quickly analyze big data to detect fraud, uncover market trends, gain better insight into customer behavior, and mitigate risk.”
“We are thrilled to have an investment from this caliber of investor and we welcome John to our board. His software and operating experience will help us scale and expand into new markets,” said Tim Estes, CEO at Digital Reasoning. “Until now, the tools available on Big Data have been focused on mostly structured data that is well formed and easily countable. Now, we can bring rich understanding of human communication — unstructured data — into new markets through a next generation of analytics that scales and runs on technologies like Hadoop.”
Synthesys has solved three key impediments to the growth of the Big Data Analytics market:

• Eliminating the need for a data model to aid understanding of text
• Handling diverse data at scale without compromising the depth of understanding
• Inventing a way to automatically understand the meaning of words in context

Digital Reasoning has successfully deployed Synthesys as both enterprise software and cloud-based web service. With success on a number of large systems in the government market, Digital Reasoning will be expanding Synthesys into enterprise commercial markets.
About Digital ReasoningDigital Reasoning provides Automated Understanding for Big Data. Automated Understanding analyzes unstructured and structured big data to reveal the hidden and potentially valuable relationships between people, place and time. More than a dozen government agencies use Digital Reasoning’s flagship product, Synthesys, to uncover security threats and accelerate the time to actionable intelligence. The company is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, with an office in Arlington, Virginia. For more information, please visit www.digitalreasoning.com.
Digital Reasoning™ and Synthesys® are trademarks of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.

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