California Capital Partners Taps Butz and Trevino As Venture Partners

Carlsbad CA—August 8, 2007- California Capital Partners (CalCap) announces it has selected Jim Butz and Cynthia Trevino, founders of Resonnect, a business and social media consultancy based in Carlsbad, CA, to join the fund as Venture Partners. http://www.calcappartners.com/

“CalCap is pleased to add Jim Butz and Cynthia Trevino of Resonnect to our roster of experienced finance, management and services professionals. Resonnect’s participation brings executive-level large and small company experience and advisory expertise to the fund. Jim and Cynthia have worked successfully with many small and medium businesses helping with their growth planning and fund raising activities over the last few years” stated John R. Nelson, Managing Director.

About California Capital Partners:

CalCaps’ http://www.calcappartners.com/ initial debt fund is California Ventures Debt Fund, LP (CalVen), a $200 million fund, providing a variety of debt and equity investment products to qualifying businesses. The average investment is about $5 million; individual investments may range from 1.5 million to $10 million per placement. Additional CalCap Venture Partners are: The Blaine Group, cFour Partners, Doug Goodyear, iQ Venture Partners, Kern & Augustine Law Firm, Litchfield Capital, Dr. Susan Love, Nath Law Group, Norio Sugano, Pacific Ridge Capital, Tacna Corporation, and others.

About Resonnect:

Resonnect is a business consultancy and online marketing public relations firm. The company helps businesses grow using social media strategies and tools. Resonnect is based in Carlsbad, CA. The telephone number is 760/268-1199, the email contact is cytrevino@resonnect.com and the company web site is at http://www.resonnect.com/

About Jim Butz:

Jim has 30+ years of experience with bringing technology based products to market; he spent 18 years at Bell Labs, AT&T and Lucent Technologies. He had broad responsibilities in strategy and planning, product management and sales and customer service. He launched several leading-edge telecom technologies and software-based solutions. Jim’s Enterprise Messaging Business Unit strategy was used in Lucent Technologies’ first major acquisition after spinning off from AT&T. More recently, he is a founder and principal at Resonnect, a 6-year old San Diego business consultancy, where he helps business owners and executives architect growth strategies and execution plans, negotiate strategic alliances and distribution agreements, and develop operations. Jim has been actively involved in technology organization and company advisory boards including the Keiretsu Forum Angel Investing Group.

About Cynthia Trevino:

Cynthia Trevino, Founder & Principal of Resonnect, CalCapVenture Partner: BA, MBA, has 25+years executive experience including marketing, and product management at AT&T, Copper Mountain Networks, and early-stage technology companies. She has 20 years corporate line and staff positions, AT&T; 3 years start-up broadband service providers and manufacturers; 5 years marketing consulting to start-up, small and mid-sized firms. She served as President, non-profit SD Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, helping startups prepare for seed financing. She currently is Chair of the San Diego AeA Sales & Marketing Roundtable.