The most exciting event of the last two weeks has been the addition of two accomplished professionals to our team.  Both bring a wealth of financial experience to the Company and we are excited to introduce them to you today. Lance Kintz joins the Sure Storage USA team as our new Chief Financial Officer.  Lance has 25 years of private and public accounting experience with a diverse industry background for start-up through Fortune 500 companies.  Since 2001 Lance has served as President of SageTree Consulting, a change management firm focused on strategic, high performance, value, and activity based financial and operational analysis and solutions for firms ranging in size from $1MM to over $120 million in sales.  Previously Lance was CFO for Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort and Casinos and Ski Apache (IMG), a tribal owned entertainment facility in Mescalero, NM with 2007 revenue of $130 million and over 1,400 employees.  In his role, Lance oversaw SEC reporting, improved investor and lender relations and increased EBITDA by 70%.  Lance has also served as Controller/Finance Director for the Arizona Republic Newspaper, a Gannett Corp. publication that is the nation’s 13th largest daily newspaper with $500 million in annual sales where he was responsible for implementing financial and operational initiatives to streamline the organization’s operations.

Also joining our team in the role of Director of Capital Markets is Steven Burgoyne.  Steven has over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate finance, investment sales and asset management.  He has an extensive background in client development as well as sourcing opportunities with private money, equity, mezzanine, life insurance companies, conduits and banking institutions.  From 2007 to 2009 Steven was Senior Vice President of Trinan Commercial Finance, a regional capital advisory firm where he was responsible for the development of the company’s private money division.  Steven has also served as Vice President for Merchants Funding, LLC, a division of Merchants Mortgage & Trust Corporation.  In his role, he was responsible for developing the commercial division for this private money lender producing $50 million in annual loans.  In addition, Steven has held positions with GMAC Commercial, Pacific Southwest and US Homes.

Our team also enjoyed a successful presence at the 2010 Inside Self Storage World Expo in Las Vegas on March 1-3.  Our booth was a popular stop for sellers who wanted to learn why 2010 was the time to sell and why Sure Storage USA was the group to sell to.  We continue to foster the many contacts we made from this event and are confident they will provide us with some excellent purchase opportunities.

Thank you for sharing in our success.

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