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Frazier & Deeter’s Business Beat: Chuck Walker, Chemlink Laboratories

April 16, 2019 by John Ray

Business Beat

Frazier & Deeter's Business Beat: Chuck Walker, Chemlink Laboratories

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**Roger Lusby, Chuck Walker, and Matt Williams on “Business Beat” presented by Alpharetta CPA firm Frazier & Deeter**

Show Summary

This edition of Frazier & Deeter’s “Business Beat” features Chuck Walker, Founder and Chairman of Chemlink Laboratories. The Chemlink story is fascinating, from their serendipitous beginnings in tablet technology to a successful enterprise which three decades later is recognized for their leadership in innovation and environmental sustainability. Alpharetta CPA firm Frazier & Deeter is pleased to bring you success stories like Chemlink in the “Business Beat” podcast series.

Chuck Walker, Chemlink Laboratories

Chuck Walker is the Founder and Chairman of Chemlink Laboratories. For over 25 years, Chemlink has been a leader and innovator in tablet technology. Founded in 1989 as a research and development company specializing in formulating effervescent powders and tablets used as cleaners and disinfectants. ChemLink’s patented technologies encompass a variety of markets including household, industrial, beauty supplies and medical/dental.

Since its inception, this Kennesaw, GA-based company has worked to reduce the environmental impact of its products, an effort which includes identifying renewable and less-toxic chemicals for its formulas. ChemLink also has become a strong advocate for sustainability among its customers and is recognized as an authority on cost-effective approaches to producing more earth-friendly products. In 2015, the company participates in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice program, an initiative that helps consumers, businesses and institutional buyers identify products which perform well, are safer to use and are cost-effective. In 2015, the company was recognized by the EPA as a Safer Choice Partner of the Year in the “Innovators” category.

Chemlink works with companies of all sizes, from independent entrepreneurial companies to Fortune 500 companies. Chemlink creates custom solutions to the challenges their clients face, whether that’s a need for a new delivery system for an existing product, or a problem that can’t be, or hasn’t yet been, solved by liquid formulations.

Frazier & Deeter

The Alpharetta office of Frazier & Deeter is home to a thriving CPA tax practice and Employee Benefit Plan Services group. CPAs and advisors in the Frazier & Deeter Alpharetta office serve clients across North Georgia and around the country with services such as personal tax planning, estate planning, business tax planning, business tax compliance, state and local tax planning, financial statement reviews, financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits, internal audit outsourcing, cyber security, data privacy, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and more. Alpharetta CPA professionals serve clients ranging from business owners and executives to large corporations.

Roger Lusby, host of Frazier & Deeter’s “Business Beat,” is the Alpharetta Office Managing Partner for Frazier & Deeter. He is also a member of the Tax Department in charge of coordinating tax and accounting services for our clientele. His responsibilities include a review of a variety of tax returns with an emphasis in the individual, estate, and corporate areas. Client assistance is also provided in the areas of financial planning, executive compensation and stock option planning, estate and succession planning, international planning (FBAR, SFOP), health care, real estate, manufacturing, technology and service companies.

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Past episodes of Frazier & Deeter’s “Business Beat” can be found here.

FRAZIER & DEETER’S BUSINESS BEAT: Dan Kent, Kent & Risley, LLC, on Intellectual Property Litigation

March 19, 2019 by John Ray

Business Beat

FRAZIER & DEETER’S BUSINESS BEAT: Dan Kent, Kent & Risley, LLC, on Intellectual Property Litigation

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**Roger Lusby, Colette Varco, and Dan Kent on “Business Beat” presented by Alpharetta CPA firm Frazier & Deeter**

Show Summary

How do you protect your technology? What are the various pros and cons of patents and trade secrets? How do you gauge the damages of patent infringement vs. the cost of litigation to recoup those damages? What are some interesting cases arising out of key word advertising on Google? Those questions and more are answered in this week’s edition of “Business Beat.” “Business Beat” is presented by Alpharetta CPA firm Frazier & Deeter.

Dan Kent, Kent & Risley, LLC

Dan Kent is a Founding Partner of Kent & Risley, LLC. Kent & Risley is a law firm that protects technology by enforcing technology rights in the form of patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and by contract. Kent & Risley also protects and defends against the wrongful assertion of alleged technology rights and advises clients about how best to protect technology and to build a valuable portfolio of patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets (also known as intellectual property rights). For more information, go to https://www.kentrisley.com/.

Frazier & Deeter

The Alpharetta office of Frazier & Deeter is home to a thriving CPA tax practice and Employee Benefit Plan Services group. CPAs and advisors in the Frazier & Deeter Alpharetta office serve clients across North Georgia and around the country with services such as personal tax planning, estate planning, business tax planning, business tax compliance, state and local tax planning, financial statement reviews, financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits, internal audit outsourcing, cyber security, data privacy, SOX and other regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions and more. Alpharetta CPA professionals serve clients ranging from business owners and executives to large corporations.

Roger Lusby, host of Frazier & Deeter’s Business Beat, is the Alpharetta Office Managing Partner for Frazier & Deeter.

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrazierDeeter
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frazierdeeter

Past episodes of Frazier & Deeter’s “Business Beat”

John Monahon with Trusted Counsel and Mark Aurand with DAMA Healthy Green Solutions

December 13, 2018 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

John Monahon with Trusted Counsel and Mark Aurand with DAMA Healthy Green Solutions

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Steven Julian, John Monahon, Mark Aurand, Mike Sammond

John Monahon/Trusted Counsel

Trusted Counsel is a corporate and intellectual property law firm dedicated to serving the unique needs of companies and investors. Trusted Counsel focuses is to guide and empower clients with exceptional legal counsel, knowledge, and tools that lead to practical, informed business decisions.

Mark Aurand/DAMA Healthy Green Solutions

Mark Aurand is a independent dealer for Vollara, a 35-year old company that specializes in high-tech healthy living technologies with environmental friendly green solution products specifically designed to help meet the needs and problems of their customers, both at home and business. Such as energized alkaline drinking LivingWater that raises the pH and allows you to drink high alkaline filtered water. FreshAir machines remove and eliminate viruses, bacteria, staff, MRSA, mold, mildew, pet and smoke odors on fabric and hard surfaces as well as in the air up to 99.9% in a 3000 sq. ft. area. They have LaundryPure that saves you money because you do not have to use hot water or detergents. They have SteadyPower that attaches to your electrical box and provides whole home protection against lighting strikes, surges, along with removing line noise filtration and reducing your carbon emissions through the power factor correction. SafeHearth is a portable heater that has a tip over, auto lock, & high temp shut off safety features. The heater is output rated at 3400 BTU/5100 BTU and it also cleans & sanitizes the air similar to the FreshAir units.

Phil Stevens with Bed Head Media, JoAnn Holmes with HOLMES@LAW, and Rick Onorato with NorthPoint Executive Suites

May 5, 2016 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Phil Stevens with Bed Head Media, JoAnn Holmes with HOLMES@LAW, and Rick Onorato with NorthPoint Executive Suites

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Mike Sammond, Phil Stevens, JoAnn Holmes, Rick Oranato, Steven Julian — Mike Sammond, Phil Stevens, JoAnn Holmes, Rick Onorato, Steven Julian

Phil Stevens/Bed Head Media

Bed Head Media is an award-winning creative studio specializing in commercial cinematography, films, print ads and motion graphics. They are a talented team of writers, film professionals, musicians and artists that design and produce high quality media content that meets the needs of their customers. They thrive on the initial process of “ideation”, creating the perfect pitch material and crafting content that tells your story, highlights your product or brand, builds true awareness about your service offering, and speaks to the heart of your target audience.

JoAnn Holmes/HOLMES@LAW

JoAnn “Jo” Holmes is the founder of HOLMES@LAW where her practice focus is business law and contracts, trademark and copyright, and software and tech. She works with a broad array of clients including professional service providers, consultants, software and creative content developers, and manufacturers. Having practiced law for nearly 17 years, her goal is to live the firm’s slogan: “Your Business Ally”.

A graduate of Stanford University and Emory School of Law, her career began in the Technology & Intellectual Property (IP) practice group of Troutman Sanders, a prominent Atlanta-based law firm. There, she successfully represented a gamut of diverse clients from startups to multi-billion dollar companies such as Chick-fil-A, Microsoft and WalMart.

Rick Onorato/NorthPoint Executive Suites

At NorthPoint Executive Suites, they believe every professional deserves top quality in every aspect of their business. Therefore they have committed themselves to equipping businesses with the tools needed for their success. They are proud to offer the best quality in technology, amenities, meeting rooms, environment and service. The staff is committed to serve their clients. The support you receive at NorthPoint Executive Suites is second to none. Their on-demand support team will save you time and money as they deal with the everyday typical “housecleaning” tasks of running an office for you. They pride themselves on running a seamless business center with exceptional reliability in the IT department. They take the headache out of the logistics to ensure smooth operation and handle any issues that may arise with urgency allowing you to focus on your business.

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Global Center for Medical Innovation and T3 Labs

November 2, 2015 by angishields

Health Connect South

Global Center for Medical Innovation and T3 Labs

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Global Center for Medical Innovation and T3 Labs

This week we hosted experts from the Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) and T3 Labs. These two non-profit organizations are dedicated to providing an ecosystem and an environment that start-up healthcare technology companies can use to develop prototypes for new devices, as well as early stage production for them as they build toward commercialization.

Executive Director for GCMI, Tif Wilson, and Executive Director for T3 Labs, Andrew Stevenson, came by to talk about how their organizations are working to expand and improve the ecosystem for emerging healthcare technology cmopanies.

The Global Center for Medical Innovation (GCMI) is the Southeast’s first and only comprehensive medical device innovation center, dedicated to accelerating development, building businesses and improving health. GCMI opened its doors in April 2012 and to date has worked with over 40 different startups, clinician innovators, university tech transfer offices and academic researchers to design, engineer, prototype, and facilitate commercialization of a broad range of innovative medical devices.

GCMI’s core team of designers and engineers collaborate closely with startups, clinicians, researchers, new product development teams and medtech entrepreneurs to accelerate time to market while reducing costs. The independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization has a robust and ever-growing network of experts, including intellectual property, regulatory, quality systems and investors, to help bring ideas from concept to market. In addition, through a close collaboration with our development partner, T3 Labs, medical device entrepreneurs and new product development teams have all of the critical resources they need to efficiently bring new products from an idea through GLP preclinical studies, all in Midtown Atlanta.

With 15 years of experience, T3’s mission remains – to provide high-value pre-clinical GLP (Good Lab Practices) compliant testing and training services to medical device, biologics, and pharmaceutical developers and manufacturers. We work with industry and academic sponsors to improve patient care by more effectively and efficiently developing and commercializing their devices and products. Contact them at (404) 251-0600.

T3 Labs is an independently-operated, privately-held, AAALAC accredited, GLP-compliant non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. In 2012, T3 became a wholly-owned subsidiary of a joint-operating company formed by Saint Joseph’s Health System and Emory Healthcare. Emory is recognized internationally as a leading academic medical center. By serving our industry and academic collaborators, T3 Labs is committed to supporting Emory/Saint Joseph’s tripartite mission: enabling discovery and innovation – via Testing; facilitating healthcare provider education – via Training; and enhancing patient-care – via medical product Translation.

Special Guests:

Tif Wilson, Executive Director of Global Center for Medical Innovation

MBA, Management & Strategy, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business
Previous VP, Business Development & Strategy, ACell, Inc
2012 HBA Women in Healthcare Leadership Award Nominee

Andrew Stevenson, Executive Director of T3 Labs

MBA, International Business, University of Delaware, Lerner College of Business and Economics
Previous Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Pharmacology & Radiology
Former Senior Scientist, Bristol-Meyers, Squibb
Previous Project Leader/Director, Abbott

Intellectual Property, Film, Music and Sound Production, and Theater

November 4, 2014 by angishields

Midtown Business Radio

Intellectual Property, Film, Music and Sound Production, and Theater

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Intellectual Property, Film, Music and Sound Production, and Theater

Today’s show focused on the entertainment industry. I sat down with experts in Intellectual property, film, music and sound production, and theater. John Seay, from The Seay Firm LLC is an attorney who focuses his practice on the entertainment space. He talked about how in reality he’s a small business attorney whose major client base comes from the entertainment sector. He serves many small business owners in matters of intellectual property and issues such as trademarks, copyrights, and more. John is a practiced musician who’s been known to perform in the Atlanta area. And, he’s been honored to fulfill his role as legal counsel for the Wilson Pickett estate–making him particularly proud being a fellow Alabama native. John shared some excellent advice for artists who are producing work in print and media with regard to protecting the intellectual property they produce–including things they can do without the help of an attorney that will give them additional recourse in the case of infringement by another party.

John brought along guests Marcus Blackwell, of Make Music Count, and Philip Justman, of Saiah Arts International. Make Music Count is an innovative curriculum for improving understanding of mathematics in young students using music instruction on a keyboard. His approach has proven to be highly effective in children in the Georgia schools where his curriculum is being employed as an after-school offering. Philip Justman joined us to talk about his work at Saiah Arts International, a theater production he has with his wife, Marium Khalid. They provide a cutting edge, immersive theater experience. They place great focus on story telling and character development in their productions, which may take their intimate audience through a half mile to a mile of walking through an outdoor set in the elements as they follow the cast moving through an expansive set in the elements.

Chris Ethridge, of Blue Dusk Promotions came by to talk about the recent release of their motion picture, “Attack of the Morningside Monster“, a thriller-horror film. Chris shared a little about the plot of the story along with some of the well-known acting talent they were able to include in the making of the film, including: Nicholas Brendon, Tiffany Shepis, Robert Pralgo, Catherine Taber and Amber Chaney. The movie, which is available in several video-on-demand outlets, is also going into distribution on DVD/Blueray and has shown popularity with audiences abroad as well.

Our producer, Krista Berutti introduced us to music and sound production specialist, Greg Shearer, of Street Level Sound. StreetLevelSound adds Floor and Decor to the growing client list as well as the new credits in the TV shows “Revenge,” “Keeping Up With The Kardasians,” and “Storage Wars.” Another recent new agency client was BBDO of New York! They also have worked for such clients as AT&T, BMW, Dell, Kellogg’s, Lysol, Conoco Oil, Quaker Steak and Lube, Unocal, Dannon, Kraft, Aetna Insurance, Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos, HIghmark BCBS, TrueValue, Disney, and others. Street Level Sound has worked with agencies including, Leo Burnett, GSD&M, 22 Squared, and Mullen. StreetLevel has also contributed to network shows like “Veronica Mars,” and “10 Things I Hate About You,” Showtime’s “Sleeper Cell,” and regularly to Harpo Productions. The company does great sound design and audio post too! Greg discussed his work in the sound and music production space along with his long-time experience in the recording industry and how those combined experiences make Street Level Sound a popular choice for advertisers and movie/TV productions.

Special Guests:

John Seay, of The Seay Firm LLC

JD, University of Georgia School of Law
Former Tour Manager, Saddle Creek Records
Author of Multiple Published Articles on Entertainment Law and Other Legal Topics
Legal Counsel for the Wilson Pickett Estate

Marcus Blackwell, CEO of Make Music Count

BS, Mathematics, Morehouse College
Former Modeling Analyst, GE Energy
Trained Pianist in Jazz/Classical and Self-taught in Gospel Music
Music Director, Elizabeth Baptist Church

Chris Ethridge, Co-founder of Blue Dusk Productions

Director, “Attack of the Morningside Monster” Motion Picture
Senior Software Engineer, Insight Catastrophe Group
BS Computer Science, James Madison University

Greg Shearer, of Street Level Sound

DMA, Composition, Northwestern University
Bachelor of Music, Guitar Performance, Indiana University
Nominated for Emmy for work on Oprah Winfrey Specials
Multiple-winner of Addy and AIR awards

Philip Justman, Co-founder of Saiah Arts International

20 major awards within 3 years Including: Best Theatrical Show 2012, 2013 and 2014, the Inspiration Award from the City of Prague, and the prestigious Creativity and Arts Impact Award from Emory University.