Henry Larrucea CEO/President

Henry Larrucea brings over three decades of continuous leadership, management and executive experience in high volume manufacturing environments in consumer recreational markets to Blu Vu.  Mr. Larrucea’s corporate responsibilities include business development, marketing, and acquisition prospect development and management.
He has expertise in all aspects of product development. Mr. Larrucea is directly involved in new product design and development including concept validation, engineering review and tooling design. He also has extensive experience in production process implementation and maintenance.

He has two patents in his name and is an expert in polyurethane chemistry. A new development uses natural Soy based resin as an ingredient to make elastic products that perform as well as or better than oil based polyurethanes. This reduces related carbon emissions from the manufacturing process for that resin by 36%. This product is marketed as a green alternative to oil based products and is finding favor with a more environmentally conscious consumer.
Mr. Larrucea has received a degree in Mathematics, minor in Engineering from El Camino College in Redondo Beach, CA.

Vice President of Research and Development  Jeffrey Bozanic, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Bozanic holds both an MBA in International Marketing as well as a Ph.D. in Education. In addition, he spent another three years in Ph.D. level studies in marine geochemistry.

Before being named to head the Blu Vu science and engineering team, Dr. Bozanic spent over 20 years as a management consultant, specializing in marketing and business development services both within and outside the dive industry. His responsibilities have included training services, general management and consulting work, financial modeling and forecasting, and project management.

Dr. Bozanic’s past clients have included Micropore (solid sate rebreather absorbent media), Steam Machines (PRISM Topaz rebreather), B&E Engineering (Nautilus rebreather), Aquarius Research International (engineering and management support for new technologies in natural resource utilization for Mexico and other developing countries), Carbon Company Inc. (waste coal electrical power generation), the American Red Cross, PacifiCare Health Services, Boeing, Gulton Industries, AgeSolutions.com, VisionArt Interactive, Inc. and others.

Dr. Bozanic has also performed services as an accident investigator and expert witness, consulting on cases related to scuba fatalities and non-fatal dive related incidents involving both open circuit and rebreather technologies.

Dr. Bozanic has published extensively on diving education topics, with heavy emphasis on cave and rebreather diving. Specializing in rebreather use, he is probably best known for his seminal  textbook on the topic, Mastering Rebreathers (Best Publishing Co.). Dr. Bozanic has edited/reviewed many diving textbooks, including co-authoring the Antarctic Scientific Diving Manual. He frequently speaks at a wide variety of diving seminars and dive shows.

Dr. Bozanic is himself an extremely active technical diver and instructor. His scientific diving began in 1978, when he was working on his thesis for his degree in geology. He spent a year dredging for gold in the Trinity Alps in California, later analyzing the settling velocity of natural alluvial gold particles. He subsequently studied the effects of water chemistry and haloclines on rock chemistry in underwater cave systems in the Bahamas, and has collected many new species of animals from submerged caves. In addition to his research activities, he has overseen scientific diving programs in Antarctica as part of the U.S. Antarctic Program, the University of Southern California as Diving Safety Officer, and on multiple diving control boards of various universities and academic diving programs. He currently serves as an advisor to the diving program of the U.S. National Park Service.

Dr. Bozanic’s contributions to diving safety and education have been recognized with many awards, including the Platinum Pro 5000, Henry Nicholson, Silver Wakulla, International Safe Cave Diving award, NAUI Hall of Honor, and most recently the 2007 DAN / Rolex Diver of the Year.