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NANOIDENT Names Cenk Serdar to Supervisory Board Turkcell Executive to Advise Leading Printed Semiconductor Company



    NANOIDENT Technologies AG, the world leader in the development and
    production of printed semiconductor-based sensors, today announced
    that Mr. Cenk Serdar, Chief Value Added Services Officer for Turkcell
    A.S., was named to the company´s Supervisory Board in a recent special
    shareholders´ meeting.

    "We are pleased to welcome Mr. Serdar to the NANOIDENT board,"
    said Klaus G. Schroeter, NANOIDENT CEO. "We are expanding our sales
    and business development activities, and his extensive sales
    management experience and global network of contacts to leading IT and
    communications companies will be a definite asset. We look forward to
    his knowledgeable guidance and insight as we continue to build our
    company´s leadership role in the printed semiconductor industry and to
    bring new applications to market."

    Mr. Serdar is Chief VAS Officer for Turkcell, whose founding
    shareholder MV Holding recently invested in NANOIDENT. An experienced
    executive in communication technologies and IT, Mr. Serdar has a broad
    background in strategic planning encompassing sales, marketing,
    business development, and operations management, with a track record
    of significant revenue and profitability growth. Having graduated from
    the Industrial Engineering Department of Bilkent University, Ankara,
    he later received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of
    Pennsylvania. He held several executive positions in various
    industries, mainly in technology and finance, before being promoted to
    Deputy CEO of Dogus Automotive AS in charge of Sales and Marketing. In
    January 2005, Mr. Serdar joined Turkcell Group as General Manager of
    its Mapco value-added services division, until persuading Turkcell to
    combine Mapco with the company´s other VAS initiatives into a single
    organization; since then he has established Turkcell as a pioneer in
    value-added services both in consumer and corporate segments, which
    include mobile broadband, mobile advertising, mobile payment, mobile
    government, and an award-winning mobile signature service.

    "NANOIDENT´s technology will enable highly reliable mobile- and
    web-based security solutions, as well as cost-effective mobile test
    systems for medical and environmental applications," Mr. Serdar said.
    "I look forward to working with my fellow board members and the
    management team at NANOIDENT at this exciting stage of the company´s
    development, as it moves into sales and volume production of these
    innovative solutions."

    About NANOIDENT Technologies AG

    NANOIDENT´s high speed, environmentally friendly manufacturing
    process utilizes liquid nanomaterials and additive production
    techniques. These liquids are used to print electronic circuits on a
    wide variety of surfaces, producing products in mere hours for
    prototype as well as high volume applications. The company´s printed
    semiconductor devices can be bendable, disposable, light, ultrathin,
    and large area. They have application specific spectral and electronic
    properties, and can contain light sources and light detectors as well
    as electronic circuits. These unique characteristics enable
    cost-effective, custom designed devices for applications such as
    industrial, chemical, biological, and biometric sensors.

    Privately held, the company is headquartered in Linz, Austria,
    with subsidiaries in Menlo Park, California; Nuremberg, Germany; and
    Grenoble, France.