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Salvador Diaz-Verson Rejoins Aura Systems Board.


EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Aura Systems, Inc. (Pink Sheets:AUSI AUSI Autonomous Undersea Systems Institute
AUSI Associated Underwater Scuba Instructors (Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia) 
) announced that Salvador Diaz-Verson has been unanimously appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company. Mr. Diaz-Verson had previously served as a director of the Company from 1997 to 2005. "We are thrilled to have a man of Mr. Diaz-Verson's stature come on our board, especially one so familiar with the company," said Mr. Melvin Gagerman, Aura's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. .

Mr. Diaz-Verson has a long and distinguished career in business and finance. He was the youngest officer of a large corporation serving as Chief Investment Officer and President of American Family Life (AFLAC AFLAC American Family Life Assurance Company
AFLAC American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus
AFLAC Apologies For Lack of Audi Content (Audi listservs) 
) where he turned a $45 Million portfolio into $8.2 Billion.

After leaving AFLAC, he formed Diaz-Verson Capital, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, one of the few Hispanic owned firms nationwide at the time. In 1997 he created the Diaz-Verson Americas Fund that provided a mutual fund for western hemispheric opportunities that thrived when NAFTA NAFTA
 in full North American Free Trade Agreement

Trade pact signed by Canada, the U.S., and Mexico in 1992, which took effect in 1994. Inspired by the success of the European Community in reducing trade barriers among its members, NAFTA created the world's
 came into effect. He founded United Americas Bank, devoted to serving the Hispanic immigrants and their families, a market left not serviced by mainstream banks.

He has served on a number of boards as well as government and charitable advisory groups. He founded and was on the board of Salvaco, an R&D company that holds numerous patents for consumer goods as well as Aura Systems and Clemente Capital. Both Presidents Bush and Clinton appointed him to the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation. Previously he had won recognition for his work in fighting drug use in founding "Business Against Drugs" and "Crime Stoppers." Both President Ronald Reagan and Governor Zell Miller recognized these efforts. Currently, Mr. Diaz-Verson is building a $60 million dollar sports complex in Sarasota to house his ECHL ECHL East Coast Hockey League
ECHL Eastern Collegiate Hockey League (college hockey league) 
 Hockey team, the Swords, as well as other headliner entertainment.

Aura Systems, Inc. is in the business of manufacture and sale of its mobile power system, the AuraGen. The AuraGen is used on land-based vehicles in both military and industrial sectors. AuraGens have been deployed in combat service support in both Iraq and Afghanistan operations. Industrial uses of the AuraGen include Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Emergency Services, Municipal and State Government services, amongst others. Marine applications of the AuraGen include USCG USCG
abbr.
United States Coast Guard

USCG n abbr (= United States Coast Guard) → Küstenwache der USA
, Navy and pleasure boat power sources. For more information see the Company's web site at http://www.aurasystems.com/.
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