Press Release

23 June 2008

CICERO CONSULTING APPOINTS STEPHEN KNIGHT AS CHAIRMAN

Cicero Consulting, the UK’s No1 financial services public policy consulting group, has appointed Stephen Knight, former chairman of GMAC RFC UK, as its new non executive chairman.

Stephen Knight will continue as executive chairman of Checkmate Mortgages and joins Cicero in a non executive role to lead the company’s ambitious expansion plans.

Cicero now offers three major public policy offerings:

Cicero Consulting – the UK ’s leading financial public affairs consultancy
Cicero Forum – financial sector event and conference management
NovaRes - the latest financial UK/EU political, regulatory and key influencer monitoring service delivering real-time information and analysis

Stephen Knight, Chairman of Cicero Consulting, said:

“Cicero Consulting is now recognised as the leading financial sector public policy consulting group in the UK. I am looking forward to supporting Cicero’s development of this core business as well Cicero Forum and the exciting NovaRes business.”

Jeremy Swan, managing director of Cicero Consulting, said:

“Stephen Knight is an innovator and a market leader. The experience he will bring to Cicero at this exciting time as we expand the business is incalculable. We are looking forward to working with him to deliver the next phase in our growth plans.”

For more information please contact:

Jeremy Swan/Iain Anderson 020 7665 9530

www.cicero-europe.com www.ciceroforum.com www.novares.eu

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