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The San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce cordially invites you to join us for a unique Educational Workshop. Extending your Development Runway: A Venture Capital Perspective . Friday, January 8 9 AM – 11 AM at San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce 402 West Broadway, Suite 1000 San Diego, CA 92101 As entrepreneurs look for funding and try to extend their development, they realize how difficult the capital markets are and how difficult it is to raise money. The Venture Capital Market has dropped over $10B in 2009. This is a good time to be creative and look for alternative paths to extend your development runway. Canada and Saskatchewan have unique programs and technology that may provide different alternatives. Some interesting facts: 1. Venture Funding in 2009 will be the lowest in 12 years… 2. Would you like to get back 74% of your salaries in a cash rebate? 3. Can you partner in technology with our northern neighbors? These questions and more will be addressed by our panel with perspective from:   Dale Botting CEO, Enterprise Saskatchewan and Minister of Technology Dan Gatti Innovative Capital Ventures The seminar is hosted by the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce There is no charge, however, reservations ARE REQUIRED. . For additional information contact Angela Flori at (619) 544-1343.

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Dale Botting, CEO Enterprise Saskatchewan and Minister of Technology

Dale has a long distinguished career in the public service and economic development. Dale headed the Saskatchewan Association of Rehabilitation Centres (SARC) and its enterprise division, SARCAN Recycling from1996 to 1999. He then returned to economic development as the Executive Director of Strategic Sector Development for the Saskatchewan Government. Next he moved to become CEO of the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA) and later joined Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP) in November 2005, as President and CEO.

In December 2007, Dale was appointed the Deputy Minister in the new Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation and the CEO of Enterprise Saskatchewan  tasked with the job of building the government’s new economic development agency.

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Dan Gatti, Innovative Capital Ventures

Mr. Gatti serves as acting CEO of emerging companies and helps
direct and develop their business plans. Mr. Gatti was President and CEO of OnSite Systems selling wireless backhaul solutions, located in Santa Clara, CA.Prior to OnSite, Mr. Gatti was President and CEO of BigBangwidth in Edmonton, Alberta selling solutions to solve security and bandwidth constraints of GRID networks. Mr. Gatti was President and CEO of MAYAN Networks, providing optical switches to the High Performance market.

Mr. Gatti was the Vice President and General Manager of 3Com's Network Service Provider Division, responsible for Internetworking products and solutions for the telecommunications industry. 3Com acquired Primary Access, a successful venture company in Remote Access products, where Mr. Gatti was Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Gatti also was President of Aptec Computer Systems providing multimedia video servers for the High Performance Computing market.