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Denise T. Dauphin
Denise Dauphin is a Principal with AEA Group a specialized professional services firm that provides consulting involving accounting, economics and appraisal issues. She has been a consultant for over 25 years, providing expert services and testimony in complex financial matters in dispute or under investigation. She has provided testimony in depositions, trials, arbitrations, and in bankruptcy proceedings.
She is experienced in providing financial advisory services involving issues related to business valuations, contract disputes, shareholder disputes, mergers and acquisitions, breaches in fiduciary duties, tortious interference, business interruptions, forensic investigations and fraud. Ms. Dauphin has served as a lead advisor for various financial institutions in connection with their underwriting and credit/investment evaluation activities. She has developed a specialty in intellectual property including patents, trademarks, trade dress, trade secrets and copyrights.
Prior to her consulting career, Ms. Dauphin worked for over 15 years in industry where she held several senior financial management positions for both publicly and privately held firms within a variety of industries including telecom and industrial manufacturing.Her experiences included functioning as CFO for a group of international distribution concerns, directing the SEC and shareholder reporting, managing a team in internal audits of 44 decentralized subsidiaries, negotiating complex transactions, designing and implementing cost accounting systems and implementing systems for resource planning and requirements, manufacturing, distribution and accounting functions.
Professional Certifications
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Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
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Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV)
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Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF)
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Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
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Certified Licensing Professional (CLP)
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Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA)
Professional Affiliations
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Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
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Member, Georgia State Society of Certified Public Accountants
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Member, Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants
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Member, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Associate
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Member, Licensing Executives Society
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Associate Member, American Bar Association
Education
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Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Fairfield University
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Masters of Business Administration in Marketing, University of New Haven
Community & Civic Affiliations
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Board of Directors (2014 to present) - Center for Black Women's Wellness - a non-profit organization that provides free and low cost services to empower black women, and their families, towards physical, mental and economic wellness.
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Former Board Chair (2005 to 2011) - Women’s Fund of Greater Birmingham – a non-profit component fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham which through strategic grant-making and advocacy is committed to creating positive change in the lives of Birmingham’s women and girls.
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Board of Directors (1998 to Present) - National Multiple Sclerosis Society – Georgia Chapter - a non-profit organization which provides services to those with the disease and raises funds in support of research to find a cure.
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Former Board of Directors Member (2009 to 2013) -YMCA – Birmingham Metropolitan – a non-profit organization that supports health for individuals and families, developing healthy, whole kids, and strengthening families in spirit, mind and body.
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Former Board Chair (1994 – 2002) - Atlanta Women’s Foundation – a non-profit organization which through strategic grant-making, advocacy and capacity building efforts is committed to creating positive change in the lives of Atlanta’s women and girls.
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Former Member-Board of Directors and Executive Committee MS Society - Alabama Mississippi Chapter
Publications
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An article titled “Financial Damages in Product Liability”, which was publised in the November 2000 issue of the Product Liability.
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An article titled “Royalties as Economic Damages Remedies”, which was published in the April 2002 issue of The Licensing Journal.
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An article titled “Determining Reasonable Royalty Rates Using Comparable Transactions”, which was published in the June/July 2002 issue of The Licensing Journal.
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An article titled “Considerations in Determining the Value of Trademarks”, which was published in the November/December 2002 issue of The Licensing Journal.
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An article titled “Royalties for Copyright Infringement Damages”, which was published in the February 2003 issue of the The Licensing Journal.
Presentations
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Atlanta Bar Association Intellectual Property SpringPosium - IP Damages Panel, April, 2013
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Atlanta Bar Association Intellectual Property CLE Event - Navigating the Entire Market Value Rule, October 2013
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State Bar of Georgia Intellectual Property CLE Event - Damages January 2014