Roth Adds Donohoe, Strandberg and Petty to Investment Banking Team.

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Roth Capital Partners announced today that David A. Donohoe, Jr., A. David Strandberg, III and Katherine Roberson Petty have joined the firm's Investment Banking Group.

Mr. Donohoe joins as Managing Director, while Mr. Strandberg and Ms. Petty join as Vice Presidents. The team specializes in assisting public companies with stock exchange listing issues, including initial listing applications, continued listing compliance, and corporate governance.

"The addition of Dave, David and Katherine allows our clients access to a new line of advisory services," said Byron Roth, Chairman and CEO. "Roth clients will benefit from their vast experience in advising NASDAQ companies, and companies aspiring to list on NASDAQ and other stock exchanges, on listing matters. This is a part of Roth's continuous effort to anticipate the needs of and provide solutions to micro and small cap companies."

In addition to their positions at Roth, the three will continue with Donohoe Advisory Associates LLC (www.donohoeadvisory.com), a Maryland-based consulting firm which provides similar advisory services.

Since founding Donohoe Advisory in 2004, Mr. Donohoe has participated in more than 100 NASDAQ listing hearings on behalf of issuers. Prior to that, he served as Chief Counsel for the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., where he oversaw a hearings docket in excess of 4,000 companies and was responsible for the development and implementation of listing standards and related policies over his nine year tenure. Mr. Donohoe holds a B.A. in Economics from the University if Texas, Austin and a J.D. from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

In addition to working with Donohoe Advisory, Mr. Strandberg served as the Director of Listings at the NYSE Group's NYSE Arca marketplace (formerly known as the Archipelago Exchange). Between 1998 and 2001, Mr. Strandberg served as Senior Counsel for NASDAQ's Listing Qualifications Department. Before that, Mr. Strandberg worked in Price Waterhouse's international consulting group. Mr. Strandberg earned his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.

Prior to joining Donohoe Advisory, Ms. Petty served as Senior Counsel in the Office of General Counsel for NASDAQ. She began at NASDAQ in 1997 as an attorney in the Office of Listing Qualifications Hearings, where she conducted more than 1,600 hearings. Ms. Petty also worked with the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council, which dealt, in part, with corporate governance initiatives in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Ms. Petty graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia and received a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois.

About Roth Capital Partners, LLC:

With headquarters in Newport Beach, California and offices in strategic locations in the Western United States, Roth Capital Partners, LLC is a full service investment bank serving corporate and institutional clients throughout the world. Roth offers a wide array of investment banking services including: initial public offerings, follow-ons, PIPEs, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, investment research, and institutional sales and trading. The firm is perhaps best known for finding, funding and fostering the growth of emerging companies. Over the last ten years, Roth has raised over $8.7 billion for small and micro cap public companies and completed over 123 merger, acquisition and advisory assignments. It is a member of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). Visit the Roth Capital Partners website at www.rothcp.com.