Deutsche Bank Adding Four to Technology Investment Banking Group; Chris Colpitts, Mark Keene, Jon Krahulik and Joaquin Rodriguez Torres to Join

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. today announced it willadd four new hires in its Technology Investment Banking group. ChrisColpitts and Mark Keene will join as Managing Directors, Jon Krahulikas a Director and Joaquin Rodriguez Torres as a Vice President. Allfour are joining from Lehman Brothers and will be based in DeutscheBank's San Francisco office. In addition, Colpitts will join MikeMurray as Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking in the Americas andjoin Murray and Tor Braham, Head of Technology M&A in the Americas, onthe Technology Investment Banking Operating Committee for the region.Braham, Colpitts and Murray will report to Jacques Brand and JamesDeNaut, Co-Heads of Corporate Finance Coverage in the Americas.

Colpitts has worked at Lehman Brothers for nine years, mostrecently as a Managing Director and Global Head of ElectronicsInvestment Banking, overseeing the semiconductor devices, powersupplies, semiconductor capital equipment and solar power sectors.Before that he worked for five years in the High Yield group at CreditSuisse First Boston.

Keene has spent his 12-year career at Lehman Brothers, mostrecently as a Managing Director responsible for Electronics InvestmentBanking in the Americas. In his new role, Keene will be Head of theGlobal Electronics and Semiconductor Group at Deutsche Bank.

Krahulik and Rodriguez Torres will be Senior Coverage Officers inthe Global Electronics and Semiconductor Group. Krahulik was a SeniorVice President at Lehman Brothers, where he has worked for seven yearsin the Global Technology group covering semiconductor andsemiconductor capital equipment companies. Before that he worked as anattorney for four years. Rodriguez Torres was a Vice President atLehman Brothers in the Global Technology group, where he worked forfive years. Prior to that he was CEO of Control Quimica S.A. in BuenosAires, which markets and services analytical instruments forpharmaceutical laboratories, food, agriculture and chemicalindustries.

"We are extremely pleased to add such seasoned bankers to DeutscheBank, as we expect to see continued demand for capital and growingconsolidation in the technology industry globally," said JacquesBrand. "They bring us incredible experience and relationships in theelectronics and semiconductor sector, which will strongly complementour existing strengths across our Technology practice."

Deutsche Bank has added more than 30 investment bankers to itsTechnology practice since January 2004.

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