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Welcome to the Pacific Explorers Dive Club. We are an energetic group of individuals dedicated to the sport of recreational scuba diving in Southern California.
Meetings are held the second Wednesday of each month at Denny's Restaurant in Canoga Park (corner of Topanga Cyn & Roscoe Blvd). Social time starts at 6:30pm and the general meeting at 7:00pm.
July 2009 GUEST SPEAKER
Our Guest Speaker for the month is Alberto Mantovani. He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of expertise in the high tech industry with
extensive background in product development, marketing, business development, sales and
corporate governance. Alberto moved from Italy to California in 1997 to work for Rockwell/Conexant where he became
Executive Director of Strategic Planning. In October 2002 Alberto started RFDomus, a fabless
semiconductor company specialized in the design of GPS components. In June 2006 RFDomus
merged with the GPS business unit of CEVA to form Glonav while in the process raising ~$16M from
Atlantic Bridge Ventures, and in January 2008 Glonav was acquired by NXP in a transaction valued
$110M.
Alberto left Glonav in April 2008 to join DiveNav as its President and CEO. Alberto is also a member
of the Tech Coast Angeles (TCA) an organization of individual angel investors operating throughout
Southern California; since 1997 TCA members have invested approx $70 million in more than 100
Southern California Companies, together with 10x from venture capital co-investors.
Alberto is a certified SCUBA Instructor and has been diving since1999. Alberto has 2 motorcycles
and strives to ride almost every day ....one of the perks of living in Southern California.
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