AZTEC GROUP, INC. APPOINTS DIRECTOR

Miami , Florida -- Ezra Katz, Chairman of Aztec Group, Inc., is pleased to announce that Susan M. Traino, CPA has joined the company as a Director.  Ms. Traino will teaming up with Christian J. Johannsen, CCIM, Managing Director, and will be responsible for retail, office building and land sales and financing.

Ms. Traino comes to Aztec Group, Inc. with fifteen years of diverse real estate experience. Susan has worked with privately and publicly owned real estate investment and development companies as well as Fortune 500 companies with their acquisition and financing needs; eight of those years were spent with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, one of the largest international accounting firms, as a CPA serving their real estate clients acquisition, development, financing and disposition needs.

Upon joining Aztec, Ms. Traino stated "Aztec Group offers me a  unique opportunity to operate within a diversified real estate service company that has a proven track record in the acquisition, disposition and structuring of complex transactions.  I look forward to working with Christian in growing their land, retail and office building sales and finance volume."

Founded in 1981, Aztec Group, Inc., is a full service real estate investment and merchant banking firm specializing in facilitating the acquisition, disposition, financing and capital needs of real estate projects for institutional investors, entrepreneurs, developers and offshore clients.