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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:16:37 GMT
Art Lennig to Lead Georgia Association of Business Brokers
ATLANTA, Ga., March 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Art Lennig, a regional director of Murphy Business & Financial Corporation, has been elected president of the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) for 2010.
The Georgia Association of Business Brokers is the state's only professional organization and Multiple Listing Service dedicated to buying and selling businesses and franchises.
Other GABB officers are:
Vice President, Eric Gagnon, founder and president of We Sell Restaurants and wesellrestaurants.com.
Secretary, Dave Chambless, principal of Abraxas Business Services.
Treasurer, Matt Slappey, owner of the Decatur office of Murphy Business & Financial Corporation,
Past president Van Watkins of Coldwell Banker Commercial Metro Brokers.
Members of the GABB Board of Directors include Tom Burdick of Metro Brokers/GMAC; Henry Hicks of Georgia Business Associates; John Jugovic, an associate with Prime Business Investments, Inc.; and J. Snypp III of Preferred Business Brokers, Inc.
GABB President ART LENNIG became a Business Broker in 2000 after more than 20 years of owning and operating his own businesses. He enjoys working with his clients to help them accomplish their goals and dreams. He served in various leadership roles with the GABB, including Secretary (2004), Treasurer (2005, 2006, & 2008), Membership Chairperson (2007 & 2008), Director (2007), and most recently 2009 Vice President. Art is a member of the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) and has earned his Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation. He received the Senior Business Analyst Award from the Society of Business Analysts in 2003. He was graduated from the University of Evansville, Indiana, with a B.S. in Marketing. Lennig lives in Acworth.
GABB Vice President ERIC GAGNON founded and is president of We Sell Restaurants and wesellrestaurants.com. Gagnon previously worked in the financial services industry for Bank of America, Bank of New York and Big Five accounting firm KPMG as Director of Business Development. He is a graduate of Francis Marion University and the University of Montreal. A frequent speaker and writer about restaurant brokerage, he has been designated a Business Industry Expert by Business Brokerage Press. He is a member of the Georgia Restaurant Association, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Business Brokers of Florida (BBF), and is the preferred broker for Georgia Restaurant Consulting Group. Eric is a licensed Broker in both Georgia and Florida.
GABB Secretary DAVE CHAMBLESS is a principal with Abraxas Business Services. Chambless has served in sales, marketing, and executive roles in technology firms, as CFO for public and private companies and as a management consultant. Also a CPA, Chambless serves on the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Board of Directors, chairs its Leadership Council and is chairman of TAG-Finance. He also serves on the boards of the Grant Park Conservancy, Southeast Atlanta Business Association and is actively involved in All Saints' Episcopal Church. He volunteers for The Samaritan House of Atlanta, where he formerly served on the board for 15 years. He has served on the Board of Resource Opportunity Center of Atlanta and is on the Advisory Council of 24/7 Gateway, a homeless services center sponsored by United Way of Atlanta. Chambless has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Tech.
GABB Treasurer MATT SLAPPEY owns the Decatur office of Murphy Business & Financial Corporation, where he works with businesses of all types, ranging from $100,000 to $10,000,000 in gross sales. He earned his Board Certified Intermediary designation through Murphy, is a member of the IBBA and sat for his CBI exam in November at the most recent IBBA Conference. Prior to becoming a Business Broker, Matt worked in management for a Fortune 100 healthcare company and holds an FAA license as an airline pilot, qualified in both airplanes and helicopters. A native of Decatur, Slappey earned a B.S. in accounting and economics from Presbyterian College.
GABB Past President VAN WATKINS is a 16-year veteran in the Business Brokerage industry and a Lifetime Member of the GABB "Million Dollar Club," and has served on its Board of Directors for the past six years. Also a member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS®, he has won many annual and quarterly company awards at Metro Brokers Commercial, including "Agent of the Year" (2006), "Top Business Broker" (2005 & 2006) and "Top Commercial Agent" (2007), and is a member of the "Summit Century Club" for exceptional performance. His past experience includes portfolio & financial management, executive level positions in numerous 501(c)(3) charitable organizations and humanitarian concerns. Watkins earned B.A. in religious studies from the University of Alabama.
GABB Board member TOM BURDICK is affiliated with Metro Brokers/GMAC, providing Business Brokerage services to sellers and buyers of main street businesses in the greater metropolitan Atlanta area. Burdick is also a member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS® and the IBBA. Burdick, who lives in Alpharetta, has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Alabama.
GABB Board member HENRY HICKS is the CEO of Georgia Business Associates, Inc., a Certified Business Intermediary, Merger & Acquisition Master Intermediary and Fellow of the IBBA. He chaired the board of the IBBA in 2002, was editor of the IBBA News, and is a past treasurer of GABB. He is chairman of the founding board of the Business Intermediary Education Foundation, a member of the Atlanta Commercial Board of REALTORS® (ACBR); the Roswell Rotary, and past chair of the board of the Child Development Association of Roswell; Hicks was CEO and chairman of the board of a North Carolina savings bank in Rocky Mount, NC, which he took public with an IPO in 1985. The Roswell Jaycees named Hicks "Jaycee of the Year," and he is an elder and past treasurer of the Roswell Presbyterian Church. He earned a B.S.I.M. from Georgia Tech in 1962 and a Masters in Public Administration from Georgia State University in 1966.
GABB Board member JOHN JUGOVIC, an associate with Prime Business Investments, Inc., has worked in the small business community in Atlanta for nearly 30 years. He has a strong record of success in Operations and Finance in both high-paced environments with significant growth, as well as start-up ventures applying strategies for achieving aggressive business goals. Jugovic has managed acquisition and reorganization of entrepreneurial enterprises in the medical devices, distribution and consumer products industries. Jugovic earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Purdue University and was recently awarded the Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) designation from the IBBA.
GABB Board member J. SNYPP III grew up in Atlanta and graduated from Georgia Southern University. Snypp spent more than two decades in the office furniture business before becoming a Business Broker and has been with Preferred Business Brokers, Inc., for almost 4 years.
Experienced brokers with the Georgia Association of Business Brokers (GABB) can help a buyer find businesses for sale, negotiate a fair price and obtain financing. A broker can help an owner evaluate and price a business, market and advertise to prospective buyers, negotiate and close a deal.
The GABB Web site (www.gabb.org) lists hundreds of businesses for sale throughout Georgia, as well as around the country.
NEWS SOURCE: Georgia Association of Business Brokers
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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:59:53 GMT
Rockfleet Announces Opening of New York City Office - Headquarters for Capital Markets Business
NEW YORK, N.Y., March 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Rockfleet Financial Services, Inc. (rockfleetfinancial.com) today announced the opening of its Manhattan office. The company will provide investment banking, advisory, securities origination, brokerage, dealer and related services across the United States. Rockfleet also announced several new hires, to be based in Manhattan.
Michael Keane as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Keane has 30 years of municipal securities underwriting, trading, and sales experience. His diversified background, including marketing and risk management, provides the firm with strength across a variety of important strategic areas. He has directed and coordinated the underwriting, sales, and marketing efforts on senior managed transactions, as well as significant co-managed appointments. Mr. Keane has developed his expertise at several firms, including Lighthouse Financial Group, LLC; Siebert Brandford Shank & Co., L.L.C.; Loop Capital Markets, L.L.C.; Prager, McCarthy & Sealy, LLC; and PaineWebber Incorporated.
Peter Rallis as Managing Director and Manager of Municipal Securities Trading. Previously, Mr. Rallis worked for Sovereign Securities Corporation LLC in its municipal securities division. Prior to that position, Mr. Rallis was employed by UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber Incorporated) for 36 years. 32 of those years were in UBS' municipal bond department as a senior marketing associate and head trader, later assuming managerial duties and functioning as senior retail trader for various states.
Otto Boehm as Senior Vice President and the company's Senior Municipal Underwriter. Mr. Boehm is a 20-year veteran of the municipal bond industry. He started his career with Prudential Securities Incorporated in 1989 as a clerk, and later a supervisor, in its municipal bond operations department. He was later promoted to junior underwriter, then senior underwriter. He held that position following the merger with Wachovia Corporation. Mr. Boehm has underwritten numerous issues during his career.
Blount Edwards as Senior Vice President and Institutional Salesperson. Mr. Edwards has extensive experience in financial markets, having worked a combined 20 years in institutional sales and trading, private equity, investment management and capital-raising. Before joining Rockfleet, he managed investment portfolios at UBS Financial Services Inc. Mr. Edwards also raised risk capital and managed several private equity investment management portfolios as principal. His institutional sales and trading experience includes CIBC World Markets Corp., Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated, and Citicorp Securities, Inc. Mr. Edwards began his career first at Signet Banking Corporation as an analyst and later at General Electric Capital Corporation as an associate.
Daniel Rudnitsky as Vice President and Institutional Salesperson. Mr. Rudnitsky previously was a portfolio specialist at Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc., with a concentration on core and related strategies. Prior to that, he was a product manager with AllianceBernstein Investments, Inc. for taxable and tax-exempt fixed income, and was with institutional client servicing at Dreyfus Investment Advisors, Inc. Mr. Rudnitsky's career began as an analyst at Three Oceans Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sanyo North America Corporation.
Catherine Corrigan, President and CEO of Rockfleet said, "We are pleased to welcome Mike, Peter, Otto, Blount and Dan to Rockfleet. With well over a century of combined experience between them, they will provide our customers and municipal issuers with superior service and access to their extensive knowledge of the taxable and tax-exempt fixed income marketplace."
About Rockfleet:
Rockfleet Financial Services, Inc., a financial services firm, serves clients nationally through its brokerage and investment banking businesses. The company's brokerage division offers fixed income products and services specifically designed to address the needs of institutions and high net worth and affluent individuals. The company's investment bank division provides fixed income securities products, advisory services, and market commentary. Rockfleet is headquartered in New York, New York.
For more information on Rockfleet, please visit www.rockfleetfinancial.com.
NEWS SOURCE: Rockfleet Financial Services, Inc.
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Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:31:49 GMT
Noted Trademark Attorney Brian Davis Joins Virtual Law Partners LLP From Alston and Bird
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 1 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Virtual Law Partners LLP is very pleased to announce that trademark attorney Brian M. Davis has joined the firm as a partner from Alston & Bird. Mr. Davis specializes in trademark counseling and prosecution, including worldwide trademark clearance and the prosecution of U.S. and foreign trademark applications. He also has extensive experience with copyright and other intellectual property issues, such as domain name disputes (including the UDRP), licensing programs and other intellectual property-related agreements.
Mr. Davis has provided strategic trademark, copyright and domain name advice for a wide variety of clients, from small startup entities to Fortune 500 companies. During his career, he has represented the owners of some of the world's best known brands in the footwear, banking, consumer electronics, home improvement, retail clothing and other industries.
"We are very excited to have an attorney of Mr. Davis' caliber and expertise join our growing firm," stated David Goldenberg, member of Virtual Law Partners' Executive Committee. "In addition to being our first North Carolina partner, Mr. Davis' extensive experience in trademark and copyright matters will be a valuable addition to our Intellectual Property practice."
Prior to joining VLP, Mr. Davis was a partner with the Charlotte, NC office of Alston & Bird where he was a member of the Trademark & Copyright Group from 1999-2010. He served as that group's acting Practice Group leader in 2008, and was the Practice Group Leader in the Charlotte office of Alston & Bird from 2009-10.
"I am very pleased to be joining Virtual Law Partners. VLP is the leading virtual law firm and I see this as a natural evolution for a practice like mine. I look forward to working with VLP's talented team of attorneys within its highly innovative virtual law firm model," Mr. Davis stated. "This is an exciting opportunity for me to pursue my legal career, while giving me the personal freedom and flexibility to manage my practice in a manner not possible in the traditional law firm model."
Mr. Davis has been listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" since 2008. He is a frequent speaker on trademark topics at seminars, industry conferences, and meetings, and regularly writes on trademark and copyright issues. Mr. Davis is currently the Vice-Chair of the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) Trademark Office Practice Committee and a member of the International Trademark Association (INTA) Trademark Office Practice Committee. He is the former co-chair of the North Carolina Bar Association's Trademark and Copyright Committee of the Intellectual Property Law Section and has served on various INTA committees (including the Geographic Indications Committee and Treaty Analysis Committee) since 2004.
Mr. Davis received his Juris Doctor degree from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, was the John J. Cummins Scholar, a member of the Washington University Law Quarterly and Order of the Coif. He received his B.A. from West Virginia University in 1992. Mr. Davis is admitted to the North Carolina and Ohio State Bars.
About Virtual Law Partners LLP:
Founded in 2008, VLP is a virtually connected and geographically distributed law firm. VLP currently has 40 attorneys, each with outstanding credentials and an average of more than 10 years of experience. VLP operates virtually, and VLP's proprietary technology platform allows the firm to collaborate easily and to operate with a small, highly specialized staff, passing the savings to clients through substantially lower rates or flat fee arrangements (generally 50 percent out of the cost of traditional legal services).
VLP's practice reaches across multiple industry sectors, including high tech, financing and venture capital, life sciences, clean tech, tax and real estate, and represents clients that vary in size from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. At VLP, "we're dedicated to proving that expensive buildings don't provide great service - great people do."
For more information about VLP, visit www.virtuallawpartners.com.
NEWS SOURCE: Virtual Law Partners LLP
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Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:58:56 GMT
Nuclear Medicine Leader Dr. M. Donald Blaufox Leads Cell Point Cancer Diagnostic Phase 2/3 Trial
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Feb. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Cell>Point announced today that M. Donald Blaufox, M.D., Ph.D, will be coordinating principal investigator for its Phase 2/3 clinical trial of 99mTc-EC-G for cancer diagnostic imaging. The trial is currently underway.
99mTc-EC-G is the company's cancer diagnostic imaging agent, an acronym for 99mTechnetium-EthylenediCysteine-Glucosamine.
"We are honored to have the support and cooperation from a physician with the recognized stature of Dr. Blaufox," said Greg Colip, Cell>Point CEO. "He's a founder and leader in nuclear medicine."
Blaufox will present clinical trial findings at select upcoming medical conferences.
Blaufox is founding Chairman of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center.
Among his many other credentials are:
* Former chairman and lifetime member American Board of Nuclear Medicine
* Principal investigator Hypertension Detection and Follow-up program (Lasker Award recipient)
* Clinical trials review committee National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
* 293 peer-review articles and chapters
* 25 medical texts
* Editorial board six journals
* Co-editor Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, Yearbook of Nuclear Medicine
* Numerous named lectures and international awards
* Honorary Professor of Medicine, Shanxi University School of Medicine, Taiyuan, China
* Founding chairman Nuclear Medicine Section, New York Academy of Medicine.
Montefiore Medical Center is one of six clinical trial sites for the 99mTc-EC-G cancer trial. Others are John Hopkins University, Mayo Clinic, Baptist Health South Florida, Decatur Memorial Hospital, and British Columbia Medical Center in North Vancouver, Canada. Blaufox is also principal investigator of the Montefiore site.
The Phase 2/3 clinical trial compares 99mTc-EC-G (administered and then imaged with a SPECT camera) to 18F-FDG (administered and then imaged with a PET camera) in the evaluation of patients with non-small cell lung cancer. More information on the trial can be found at www.clinicaltrials.gov. Trial identifier is NCT00865319.
More information on 99mTc-EC-G can be found at the Cell>Point Website (www.cellpointweb.com) under Technology\Pipeline.
18F-FDG is FluoroDeoxyGlucose. Used in the medical imaging modality Positron Emission Tomography (PET), it is the current standard in diagnosing, staging, and monitoring treatment of cancers.
SPECT is Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography. SPECT cameras are 25-fold more prevalent than, and one-quarter the cost of, PET cameras. Radiation from a 99mTc-EC-G SPECT procedure is as much as 75 percent less than that of an 18F-FDG PET procedure.
About Cell>Point:
Cell>Point is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing universal molecular imaging agents and molecular therapeutics for the diagnosis, treatment and treatment monitoring of cancer, heart, and other diseases. Cell>Point has exclusive license to five drug-development platforms, all from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, a world leader in cancer research and care. Information on Cell>Point's drug candidates, recent press releases, and patents and patent filings can be obtained through its Website at www.cellpointweb.com. The company is headquartered in Centennial, Colo., and has additional offices in San Francisco and Houston.
NEWS SOURCE: Cell Point LLC
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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:02:01 GMT
Riverside Media Appoints Director of Business Development - William Gole
LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Jan. 6 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Riverside Media / Global Media Network, Inc., a leading provider of global media services and advertising sales representative for major media companies throughout the world, today announced the addition of William (Bill) Gole as Director of Business Development.
Bill joins Riverside with extensive experience in the publishing industry. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President, Business Development for Thomson Healthcare, a division of Thomson Reuters. In that capacity he had responsibility for strategic planning and the division's M&A activity. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Services for Thomson Scientific, an internationally renowned scientific database publisher with offices in Philadelphia, San Diego, London, Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore. He has also held the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer of Frost & Sullivan, an international market research firm, and of Publisher at the American Institute of CPAs.
Working closely with W. John Holmes, president of Riverside, Bill will have responsibility for charting and implementing Riverside's strategic plan. This includes identifying emerging market opportunities and executing major growth initiatives.
"Bill comes to Riverside with a wealth of planning expertise and international experience in the publishing industry," said Holmes.
"I am extremely pleased to have an executive of his caliber join our team. I see tremendous untapped opportunity in the international advertising market and Bill will play a key role in sizing and prioritizing them, as well as developing strategies to exploit them," he added.
Riverside Media is the North American advertising representative for the premier media companies in Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. An independent U.S.-based operation, Riverside has provided simplified and centralized access for North American ad agencies and advertising clients to major consumer and trade media of all types worldwide for the last 30 years.
For more information visit www.accessriverside.com or call 518-523-4794.
NEWS SOURCE: Riverside Media
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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:13:28 GMT
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