Calpian, Inc. - Emerging market mobile payment company

Calpian, Inc. (OTCQB:CLPI) is a publicly traded company with corporate offices in Dallas , Texas , operating centers in Georgia , New York and Illinois and mobile payments emerging-market operations through its subsidiary in India.

Calpian's wholly owned subsidiary, Calpian Commerce, provides the merchant community with an integrated suite of payment platforms and related software based products. Calpian Commerce offers access to leading third party payment platforms to process credit and debit card transactions, ach, mobile acceptance and gateway payment solutions to merchants in the U.S. operating in the physical “brick and mortar” environment as well as over the Internet, and in settings requiring wired as well as wireless/portable payment solutions. Calpian Commerce delivers its products and services to merchants via three delivery chains: a direct sales force, ISOs and Agent Banks.

Calpian's Indian subsidiary offers Money-on-Mobile, a pre-paid mobile payment solution, to more than 130,250 Indian retail locations. Calpian's management team has over 70 years in combined experience in the payments business. Calpian's CEO, Harold Montgomery, is a recognized industry leader who has provided expert testimony to the U.S. Congress and Federal Reserve Bank on payments-related issues and regularly appears in numerous industry publications, such as Transaction World Magazine. Please visit our website at www.calpian.com for more information.

Symbol: OTCQB:CLPI

Sector: Mobile Payment

Websites: www.calpian.com;
www.money-on-mobile.net

SEC Filings: details

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Money-on-Mobile is India's largest mobile payment platform that places the second mobile revolution of the country into your hands. A unique and revolutionary concept from My Mobile Payments Limited (MMPL), Money-on-Mobile is aimed at bringing quick, simple and efficient mobile payments right down to the ordinary man on the street.

As the fastest growing market of its kind in the world, India's mobile phone industry is a hot bed of opportunities. Money-on-Mobile is an effort to harness this very power and growth of the country's mobile phone industry to introduce the concept of the m-Wallet (mobile wallet). Gone are the day of carrying wads of cash and a range of credit and debit cards. Money-on-Mobile puts all the power of your bank account and the money in it right into your mobile phone.

Management Team:

Harold Montgomery, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Harold Montgomery is the Chairman and CEO of Calpian. He has been in the POS payment processing business since 1987. Before leading the formation of Calpian, he was the CEO of A.R.T. Holdings, Inc. (dba Calpian from 2002 to 2009), a company that underwrote and acquired hundreds of merchant portfolios totaling approximately 35,000 merchants. He brings the same leadership team from A.R.T. to Calpian. Montgomery has 23 years experience in the transaction processing business including in the ISO space, merchant payment processing and sourcing capital for the ISO market. He's a widely known industry authority, a speaker at regional and national trade shows and writes for Transaction World Magazine. He has been a resource for the Federal Reserve Bank Card Payment Center in Philadelphia, and has served the U.S. Congress as an expert witness on credit card legislation.

Montgomery is a native of Dallas, Texas. He attended Stanford University where he earned BA and MBA degrees. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Communities Foundation of Texas, a $750 million community trust organization, and the Board of St. Mark's School of Texas. He has served as President of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and Young Audiences of Greater Dallas.

Craig Jessen, President

Craig Jessen is the President of Calpian. He has been in the payment processing industry since 1991. He was the President of A.R.T. Holdings, Inc. (dba Calpian from 2002 to 2009), a company that underwrote and acquired hundreds of merchant portfolios totaling approximately 35,000 merchants. His primary responsibilities at A.R.T. were the sourcing, underwriting, negotiation and funding of these acquisitions. Jessen has 19 years experience in the transaction processing business including the ISO space, merchant payment processing, sales training, business development and sourcing capital for the ISO market. Jessen resides in Dallas, TX, and holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from Southern Methodist University.

Cynthia Bailey, Chief Marketing Officer

Cynthia Bailey is the Chief Marketing Officer of Calpian. She served in this position at A.R.T. Holdings Inc. (dba Calpian from 2002 to 2009) and brings over 18 years experience in the acquiring side of the electronic transactions industry. In addition to developing and executing marketing and public relations strategies for the Company, Bailey is the Founder, current Editor-in-Chief and Managing Publisher for Transaction World Magazine (founded in 1999), a leading trade publication in the electronic payments industry. Bailey resides in Atlanta, GA, and holds a BA from The College of William and Mary in Virginia and an MBA/Master of Science in Marketing, from Georgia State University.

David Pilotte, Chief Financial Officer

David Pilotte is the Chief Financial Officer of Calpian. Pilotte has a broad-base of experience across many industries, and brings to Calpian more than 20 years experience leading middle-market public companies including roles as CFO, COO, Corporate Controller, Treasurer and independent advisor. During that time he has led 10 M&A transactions totaling $1.2 billion in value, raised and managed more than $550 million in financing and led public companies ranging from startups to those with over $700 million in revenues. Pilotte holds a BS in Finance from the University of Florida, an MBA from the University of Houston, and has been a CPA in Texas since 1986.

Laird Cagan, Director

Laird Cagan is Managing Director and co-founder of Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, LLC ("CMCP")(successor to Cagan Capital) a private investment firm and merchant bank he founded in 1990. Since 2000, CMCP has founded and/or funded and taken public, ten companies in a variety of industries including energy, alternate energy, healthcare and information technologies. CMCP portfolio companies have raised over $600 million. Cagan was the founding Chairman of Evolution Petroleum Corporation (AMEX: EPM), a company he founded to develop mature oil & gas fields with advanced technologies. He is also a Managing Director and Principal of Colorado Financial Services, Inc., ("CFSC") a NASD-licensed Broker-Dealer, a former director of AE BioFuels (AEBF.PK), and Camac Energy, Inc. (AMEX: CAK). Cagan is licensed by the SEC under Series 24, 7 and 63. CFSC is not affiliated with CMCP.

Media Coverage:

What's Calpian Got that eBay Doesn't? EBAY and CLPI... The Same, But Different.
By James E. Brumley - January 23, 2013
Numbers Tell the Impressive Tale: Calpian (CLPI) Is On the Right Track
By James E. Brumley, Smallcapnetwork.com - January 17, 2013
Mumbai Calling: Three India Telecom or Mobile Stocks for Foreign Investors to Ring Up
By John Udovich, Smallcapnetwork.com - January 15, 2013
Small Cap Indian Internet and Mobile Stock Plays
By John Udovich, Smallcapnetwork.com - January 9, 2013
Don't Overlook These Small Cap Payment Processing Stocks
By John Udovich, Smallcapnetwork.com - January 2, 2013
India's 'Money-on-Mobile' launches carrier - and bank-agnostic mobile wallet
Tags: Mobile/Virtual Wallet, Money Transfer / P2P, Region: APAC - June 12, 2012

Contact:

Media Contact:
Cynthia Bailey, CMO
404.886.8885
cynthia@casabailey.com

Company Contact:
Harold Montgomery, CEO
214.758.8603
haroldmontgomery@calpian.com

Investor Relations Contact:
John Liviakis
415.389.4670
john@Liviakis.com

Calpian's models and projections are based on certain key assumptions, including but not limited to the following:

Availability of adequate and appropriately priced financing to continue in business
Availability of acquisitions which can be completed
Continued performance of key staff
Continued favorable business conditions and economic climate.
Money on Mobile Forecasts are the representation of MOM Management.

Certain of the statements contained herein may be statements of future expectations and other forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results, performance or events to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such statements. In addition to statements which are forward-looking by reason of context, the words “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue” and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements. Actual results, performance or events may differ materially from those in such statements due to, without limitation, (i) our ability to acquire retail credit card processing residual streams (“residuals”), (ii) our ability to raise capital to fund our acquisitions, (iii) our ability to successfully integrate multiple residuals acquisitions, (iv) changing levels of competition, (v) changes in laws and regulations, including government regulation of the credit card processing industry and other related financial institutions, and (vi) general competitive factors. This business plan is for confidential information purposes only and is not a solicitation for investment.

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