Title: creating value through solutions for unmet needs
1creating value through solutions for unmet needs
INVESTOR PRESENTATIONOCTOBER 2007
2INTRODUCTION
XL TechGroup identifies unmetmarket needs in the
MedTech, BioTech, and EcoTech sectors and then
systematically creates and develops successful
world-changing technology businesses to exploit
these needs.
3OVERVIEW
- we build market-changing companies using
world-changing technologies - we are creating significant market value which is
not yet reflected in our share price - However...
- we have reached an inflexion point where that
value is starting to crystallise now - we anticipate a number of announcements over the
coming months that will support this - we anticipate paying the first of a series of
significant shareholder distributions in 2008
XL TechGroup is in the business of significant
value creation
4COMPANY PROFILE
- engine which creates, manages, and grows to
liquidity a succession of global, market changing
companies - entirely market driven versus technology focused
- uses a unique, proven methodology for rapid
company building, which has resulted in a high
success rate (gt 80) over 14 years - core senior, experienced business and technical
team working within the XL methodology for over
14 years - strong corporate and technology partnerships
- US corporation, listed on AiM (XLT)
creating value through solutions for unmet needs
5COMPANY HISTORY
5
we believe that XL TechGroup is now reaching a
clear inflexion point in its potential valuation
profile
QuoNova formed PetroAlgae formed
DxTech formed AgCert IPO
XL Vision creates 8 companies with over US2.5bn
value
TyraTech formed XL TechGroup IPO
TyraTech IPO
Management buy-out of XL Vision and creation of
XL TechGroup
AgCert formed
John Scott team form and create XL Vision
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6WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO ..
- big companies are good with incremental
technology changes but terrible with disruptive
solutions (Clayton Christensen) - disruptive needs are often known but not met
- consequently, XL TechGroup partners with major
companies to provide disruptive solutions to
global unmet needs - thereby, XL TechGroup massively leverages market
research, contacts, and channels from BigCo
partners - lends to market credibility
- ability to grow rapidly
7STRATEGY
- employ proven methodology to create 12 new,
world changing companies each year - select only those opportunities which can produce
realisable valuations of at least US400 million
within four years - retain controlling or significant stakes
- maintain sufficient technology and discovery
partnerships to create a continuously evolving
pipeline of new opportunities - deliver large-scale shareholder distribution
events
They actually build them up into proper products
instead of just trying to grab and flip IP. We
love them.
Dr. Tom Cripe External Business Development
Procter Gamble
8METHODOLOGY
Reducing technology development risk
Reducing market adoption risk
Reducing competitive risk
Reducing management risk
Reducing liquidity risk
Discover Identify unmet market needs through
discovery leaders
Match Source matching technologies from
technology partners and create opportunity
Select Test strategy against market adoption with
predictive algorithm to select the best
opportunities
Develop Develop company by adapting strategy to
market transformation created by disruptive
technology
Scale Scale company to enable liquidity event
9DISCOVERY AND TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Unmet market needs
Discovery partners corporates
XL TechGroup
University/RD technology partners
Corporate technology partners
IP
IP
Complete opportunities
Test strategy and IP against market adoption
Start new company
Customer/partner
10XL TECHGROUP COMPANIES
- AgCert (AGC)
- a global leader in the production of carbon
credits - TyraTech (TYR)
- the sole provider of a new category of safe,
effective and natural insecticide and
parasiticides - DxTech
- moving the world from centralised to distributed
diagnostics - PetroAlgae
- creating a sustainable, renewable, cost-effective
substitute for petroleum oil - QuoNova
- addressing the significant need for safe,
effective agents against the damage caused by
bacterial biofilms - GenXL
- Department of 9s, adding value over and above
the XL TechGroup core model
XL TechGroup moving to next level of significant
growth and success, above and beyond AgCert
11AGCERT INTERNATIONAL PLC
- unmet market need industrial scale production of
greenhouse gas credits to satisfy the annual
global demand for hundreds of millions of credits
- disruptive technology proprietary UN approved
methodology that reduces emissions from animal
waste management systems by 95 - market changing elements
- market leader in credit provision
- creating its own credits in volume
- AgCert owns its own credit creation IP
- anticipated actual near-term proof points
- new deal would mitigate almost all credit
delivery risk going forward - backlog of over 45m credits being established
(under construction heads of terms under
negotiation) - existing biodigesters now delivering on schedule
- competitors being advised about potential patent
infringements - new strategic initiatives already producing
results - XL TechGroups equity interest 18.8
- www.agcert.com
12TYRATECH INC.
- unmet market need demand for safer,
environmentally friendly pesticides and
parasiticides capable of matching or beating
existing chemical equivalents - disruptive technology platform based on cloned
insect chemoreceptors rapidly screened against
new combinations of natural plant oils - market changing elements
- the only broad-based natural pesticides that are
most often more effective than chemical poisons - changing the dynamics of health in the developing
world - anticipated actual near-term proof points
- insecticide partners seeking to broaden their
relationships - looking to meet additional key partner milestones
- Natures Natural anticipated to move into revenue
soon - target markets worldwide US23 billion market
opportunity that includes agricultural and
horticultural applications, consumer
applications, professional pest control
applications, governmental uses, and human and
animal healthcare applications - XL TechGroups equity interest 47.9
- www.tyratech.com
13DXTECH LLC
- unmet market needs
- provide cost-effective, diagnostic test results
in minutes, to reference laboratory standards, in
a Point-of-Care (POC) environment - reduce the need for expensive, highly skilled
centralised laboratory infrastructures in the
developing world - disruptive technology fully automated POC device
that enables all routine blood tests currently
performed in clinical reference labs, with
immediate feedback and diagnosis - market changing elements
- the only solution that does all common tests
(including haemotology) in the doctors office in
real time - produces real time diagnostic information for
quicker, more accurate, enhanced healthcare
decision making - provides an immediate significant increase, at
low cost, to doctors incomes in the US The
Doctor becomes the Lab - anticipated actual near-term proof points
- first alpha system anticipated in 2008
- additional assays being proved to reference
laboratory gold standards - first non-US joint venture being negotiated
- target markets US48 billion diagnostic testing
market in USA, (source Washington G2 Report
Laboratory Industry) including US30 billion
routine tests eligible for distributed
diagnostics - XL TechGroups equity interest 82.5
- www.dxtech.com
14PETROALGAE LLC
- unmet market needs replace petroleum and food
oils with an environmentally-friendly, scalable,
and profitable alternative - disruptive technology unique algae strain that
matures in 24 hours, converts 50 of its weight
into oil, can be harvested daily, and generates
200x more oil per acre than traditional biofuel
crops like soybean - market changing elements
- the only solution for biodiesel feedstock that
allows refiners to make a profit - the only solution capable of producing commercial
quantities of oil on small amounts of land - could allow some countries to become oil
independent via a carbon neutral fuel - anticipated near-term proof points
- complete process prototype and design commercial
facility - many geographic specific licensing deals targeted
outside the USA, several already under discussion - target markets
- US100 billion markets for biodiesel in each of
USA ROW - US10 billion market for nutriceuticals, fatty
acids, petrochemicals and cosmetics - XL TechGroups equity interest 94.1
- www.petroalgae.com
15QUONOVA LLC
- unmet market need
- produce safe, efficacious agents in the global
fight against infection and damage caused by
bacterial films - disruptive technology
- only effective, new anti-bacterial approach that
inhibits biofilms and does not promote resistance - market changing elements
- the only non-toxic molecules with proven efficacy
against biofilms - new approach to anti-bacterials that does not
create resistance - anticipated near-term proof points
- first patents to be issued
- first licensing agreement consumer application
- target markets
- US30 billion global market for medical devices
and implants, - US20 billion global market in industrial and
consumer applications - US30 billion global market for topical and
systemic anti-infectives - XL TechGroups equity interest 90.0
- www.quonova.com
16GENXL LLC
- created to deliver additional value for XL
TechGroup shareholders over and above the core
business model - takes advantage of a guaranteed flow of
opportunities from XL TechGroup and GEN3 - flexible approach allows the creation of point
solutions and licensing opportunities, as well as
new businesses - ability to take in external financing, including
VC and private equity - multiple transactions anticipated per year
- first investment (EnGen) in a unique platform
technology that has a range of potential
supercapacitor battery applications across
various sectors where there are clear unmet
market needs - XL TechGroups equity interest 42.7
- www.gnxl.com
17VALUATION MODEL INFLEXION POINT
- XL TechGroups future valuation will be based
on the sum of - Cash
-
- AgCert (18.8)
- TyraTech (47.9)
- DxTech (82.5)
- PetroAlgae (94.1)
- QuoNova (90.0)
- GenXL (42.7)
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- NPV of future pipeline
we believe that XL TechGroup is now reaching a
clear inflexion point in the potential valuation
profile of the Group
18XL TECHGROUP PIPELINE OF POSSIBILITIES
- an economical catalytic process to split low-cost
methane into high-value, high-purity graphitised
carbon and pure hydrogen - a designer micro-organism that efficiently
produces isoprene, a direct replacement for
gasoline and propane - a group of antiviral compounds active against
viral diseases such as HIV, bird flu, and SARS
that are derived from natural sources (fungus,
seaweed, animal mucus) - a water-based, non-toxic green paint base that
contains no organic solvents, and yet adheres
strongly to plastics, metals, etc. - a novel technology for non-invasively imaging,
for the first time, of unstable vulnerable plaque
in the coronary arteries - a new approach to causing existing cancer
therapeutics to stick highly preferentially to
certain tumour types, thereby enhancing the
specificity of the relevant drugs - an offshoot of a novel cancer vaccine technology
which is adapted as a peripheral blood diagnostic
to screen for early cancer detection - a moisture barrier technology which provides
controlled separation of wet and dry food
products, and - a unique proprietary platform which enables rapid
screening of molecules which target AMP kinase
for treatment of metabolic diseases such as
obesity and type 2 diabetes
strong relationships with discovery
technology partners produce an ever evolving,
exciting pipeline of possible opportunities
19CONCLUSION
- we build market-changing enterprises using
world-changing technologies - we have a highly experienced, proven team
- we partner successfully with some of the worlds
leading global companies - we have a significant network of technology
partners where we leverage multi billion annual
RD spends, and IP portfolios containing tens of
thousands of patents - we have developed a unique company creation and
development methodology that has a successful
track record over 14 years - we are creating significant market value
- we have reached an inflexion point where that
value is starting to crystallise now - we anticipate a number of announcements in the
coming months that will support this - we are moving to a distribution model
XL TechGroup is in the business of significant
value creation
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INVESTOR PRESENTATIONOCTOBER 2007
21FINANCIALS CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET
22FINANCIALS OPERATING STATEMENT
23FINANCIALS CASH FLOW
24BOARD
- Dr. John Scott, Chief Executive Officer a serial
entrepreneur andinventor who has founded ten
successful technology companies within the past
20 years - David Szostak, Chief Financial Officer over 20
years experience as a financial executive in a
number of private and public companies, which has
included management of fundraising and initial
public offerings activities - Geoffrey Vernon, Non-Executive Chairman Dr
Vernon has extensive experience in the
healthcare industry, including Ciba-Geigy
Pharmaceuticals and Schering Chemicals, and in
fund management, with Rothschild and Advent - Dr. Andrew Heath, Non-Executive Director CEO of
Protherics since 1997, he brings a wealth of
healthcare and pharmaceutical expertise with
international experience in marketing and sales,
RD and business development - Bill Haskell, Non-Executive Director over 20
years experience in creating and building
technology companies. He has co-founded several
companies, been a principal in two turnarounds
and served on the boards of private and public
companies
25SENIOR MANAGEMENT
- Harold Gubnitsky, Executive Vice President a
seasoned executive with over 20 years experience
who has worked with and within several
corporations with a wide range of
responsibilities spanning executive management
and operations - Steve Lufkin, CEO of DxTech senior management
experience including technology and strategic
business development, technology
commercialisation, and strategic direction for
new product introductions - Mike Nadolny, CEO of PetroAlgae experienced in
assessing new business opportunities from
strategic, technical, and financial perspectives.
Previous roles included helping large
corporations identify promising new technologies
for potential spin-out - Dr. Heinrich Gugger, CEO of QuoNova over 25
years experience in developing global high tech
and life sciences companies in the public or
multinational company domain. Dr. Gugger has
served on numerous company and life science
industry boards
26NEWS FLOW 200607 HIGHLIGHTS
- US35 million borrowing facility with Laurus
- TyraTech announces supply and distribution
agreement for Mexico - TyraTech signs option agreement with Scotts
Miracle-Gro - AgCert forms JV company with AES which will
invest US325m in the business - joint venture company GenXL launched
- TyraTech signs licensing / co-development
agreement with Arysta LifeScience - TyraTech signs licensing / co-development
agreement with Syngenta - placing of 4m old shares _at_ 280p to satisfy
institutional demand - formation of fourth company - PetroAlgae
- DxTech announces global technology partnerships
- TyraTech signs global licensing / co-development
agreement with Kraft for functional
foods/beverages - formation of fifth company - QuoNova
- US20 million borrowing facility with Laurus
- TyraTech appoints CEO, CFO and investment bank
advisors - GenXL invests in first company - EnGen
- AgCert announces improved strategy and additional
financing - TyraTech floats on AiM
- appointment of Presidential Strategic Advisory
Services LLC as strategic adviser
we anticipate strong news flow from across our
portfolio over the next twelve months
27CONTACT
- Chris MundenDirector of Investor Relations
- t 44 (0)20 7398 7720
- m 44 (0)7775 530690
- e cmunden_at_xltg.com
- w www.xltechgroup.com
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