Resurgent Reundtable.On the heels of the Irvine-based Tech Coast Alliance launch in Long Beach last month, the Digital Coast Roundtable has surfaced after months of silence. The L.A.-based nonprofit, which was formed in the glory days of 1998 to support emerging technology companies in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , announced last week that it had restructured and elected a new board. Everyone's restructuring in the tech sector, so why not the sector's s networking and advocacy groups? The new team includes Kevin Wall Kevin Wall is an Emmy Award-winning producer and new media entrepreneur who created and produced Live Earth -- The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis. Staged on July 7, 2007 (07.07. , founding partner of Shelter Capital Partners, who will serve as chairman. Scott Tolleson, chairman of Media.Net, will become chief financial officer and Alan Kiros, partner with Weissman, Wolf, Bergman, Coleman & Silverman LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , will become the group's secretary. Others elected to the board include Robert Dowling, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter; Jon Goodman, executive director of EC2, the Annenberg Incubator Project at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. ; and Gary Mendoza, partner with Riordan & McKinzie. The often cliquish clique n. A small exclusive group of friends or associates. intr.v. cliqued, cliqu·ing, cliques Informal To form, associate in, or act as a clique. groups in the local tech sector would do well to cling to the members of Digital Coast Roundtable. According to its Web site, member companies include top venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] like Palomar Ventures, Clarity Partners and Constellation Ventures as well as some powerhouse companies like Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems, Liberty Digital and L.A.'s largest law firm O'Melveny & Myers. No events have been announced yet, but Wall said the group is developing seminars and workshops with Los Angeles Unified School District's New Media Academies to help integrate art and technology into school programs. It is also developing a New Media Atlas to provide information about technology trends and growth between Santa Barbara and San Diego. |
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