Merriman Capital Adds CFO 911's Charles K. Dargan II and Reid Dabney To Financial Entrepreneur Platform

"Charley and Reid have sterling reputations as advisors and counselors to small, fast growing companies and having known Charley for most of my career I'm pleased to have the opportunity to finally work together. Given the size and stage of growth of our clients, they are very often in need of specialized financial and operational expertise. Our affiliation with CFO 911 allows us to seamlessly recommend these services to a group we trust." stated Jon Merriman.

Will Febbo, COO of Merriman, added: "As we strive to build a premier platform for financial professionals, it is critical to look outside the traditional services of banking. CFO 911 embodies a valuable service not only to our internal clients but to all those clients who come to us through FEP. As we scale the platform beyond the four FEP groups we have now, it is far more about the community you build than the percentage of revenue share that makes the FEP successful. We believe having complementary services such as CFO 911 affiliated with FEP is critical to strong leadership in this new market."

About Merriman Capital, Inc.

Merriman Capital, Inc. is an investment banking firm providing equity and options execution services, market making, and differentiated research for high growth companies. The firm also provides capital raising, advisory, and M&A services. Merriman Capital, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (OTCQX: MERR) and is the leading investment banking firm for OTCQX companies. For more information, please go to http://www.merrimanco.com/.

Merriman Capital, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer and member of The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) http://www.finra.org/ and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) http://www.sipc.org/.

About CFO 911

CFO 911 (www.cfo911solutions.com) is an organization of accounting, finance and operational experts who provide management expertise to middle market companies to solve their critical accounting, finance and operational issues. CFO 911'sprofessionals have amassed a unique depth and breadth of operational and financial experience developed by having worked as CEO's, Presidents, COOs and CFOs of Fortune 500 firms, micro cap publicly traded companies, private emerging growth companies and not-for-profit organizations.

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