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PRESS RELEASE
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. announced today that Daniel V. Leff, Ph.D., has agreed to join the Company as Executive Vice President and Managing Director. Mr. Leff was most recently a Senior Associate with Sevin Rosen Funds in the firm's Dallas, Texas office. He will relocate to Los Angeles, California, where he will establish and head a West Coast office for Harris & Harris Group. In addition, he will be one of the Company's four decision makers with respect to all of its venture capital investments and will be involved in the Company's strategic direction along with the Company's other senior officers. Prior to joining Sevin Rosen Funds, Mr. Leff worked for Redpoint Ventures in the firm's Los Angeles office. In addition, he previously held engineering, marketing and strategic investment positions with Intel Corporation. Mr. Leff received his Ph.D. degree from UCLA's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, where his thesis advisor was Professor James R. Heath (recipient of the 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology). Mr. Leff also received an MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Harris & Harris Group is a publicly traded venture capital company that now makes initial investments exclusively in tiny technology, including nanotechnology, microsystems and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The Company's last 12 initial private equity investments have been in tiny-technology enabled companies. Harris & Harris Group is a business development company with 13,798,845 common shares outstanding. Detailed information about Harris & Harris Group and its holdings can be found on its website at www.TinyTechVC.com. This press release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to the inherent uncertainties in predicting future results and conditions. These statements reflect the Company's current beliefs, and a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in this press release. Please see the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and recent Prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a more detailed discussion of the risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, including but not limited to the risks and uncertainties associated with venture capital investing and other significant factors that could affect the Company's actual results. Except as otherwise required by Federal securities laws, Harris & Harris Group, Inc. undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements to reflect new events or uncertainties. |
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