Chapter Leadership Team
Auma Reggy
Board Member / Programs & Events Co-Chair
Auma Reggy
Board Member / Programs & Events Co-Chair
Chief Trademark Counsel, McKesson Corporation
Auma Reggy is Chief Trademark Counsel for McKesson Corporation in which role she directs the company’s global non-patent IP portfolio – trademarks, rights clearance, marketing/ad review, brand protection (including anti-counterfeiting), copyright, domain names, and rights of publicity. With more than 25 years of experience, she was previously a Partner with the law firm of Arnall Golden Gregory in Atlanta, Georgia, spent several years as a Trademark Examining Attorney with the USPTO, and before that was a policy analyst/legislative counsel to the Maryland General Assembly. Auma is a member of several boards, including My Sister’s Keeper Foundation for Women, Inc., The Kenya Project, Inc., and the Georgia Intellectual Property Alliance. She is presently Co-Chair of the Trademark Committee of the State Bar of Georgia’s IP Section. Auma is also a longstanding member of the International Trademark Association (INTA), and has served on INTA’s Programs Committee and In-House Practitioners Committee. Auma holds a B.A. in Economics and French from Eastern College, and J.D. from Howard University School of Law. Auma lived for many years in Nairobi, Kenya and has studied abroad in Europe twice. She currently resides in Atlanta with her husband.
Jacqueline Tio
Membership & Diversity
Jacqueline Tio
Membership & Diversity
Principal, Fish & Richardson
LinkedIn Profile. Opens in a new tab.Jacqueline Tio is an experienced litigator and trial attorney, representing clients in district court, before the International Trade Commission, and in post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent Office. Jacqueline’s experience includes representing clients in high-stakes, complex, competitor vs. competitor patent litigations and spans all phases, including pre-suit diligence, filing lawsuits, fact discovery, expert discovery, preliminary injunctions, dispositive motions, trials, and post-trial judgment and costs. Her matters involve a wide range of technologies and encompass mechanical devices, electronics, and consumer products. Jacqueline also represents pro bono clients in her local community and is Treasurer of the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association as well as co-chair of Fish & Richardson’ s Asian Affinity Group. Jacqueline obtained her B.S. degree in Chemistry from MIT and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.
Karen Shelton
Chapter Secretary
Karen Shelton
Chapter Secretary
Chief Intellectual Property Counsel, Acuity Brands Lighting, Inc.
LinkedIn Profile. Opens in a new tab.Karen Shelton is Chief Intellectual Property Counsel at Acuity Brands Lighting. Ms. Shelton’s practice focuses primarily on providing counsel in the areas of product development, technology transactions, and marketing. Prior to joining National Service Industries, which was the predecessor to Acuity, she was Associate Counsel at Dun & Bradstreet Software. Ms. Shelton started her career at Kilpatrick & Cody (now Kilpatrick, Stockton & Townsend). She received her BA, with high distinction from the University of Virginia and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Shelton received her JD, with honors, from Duke University School of Law. She is a volunteer mentor with the Emory Start:Me Entrepenuership Program.
Meredith Struby
Membership & Diversity
Meredith Struby
Membership & Diversity
Managing Partner and Principal, Meunier Carlin & Curfman
LinkedIn Profile. Opens in a new tab.Meredith Struby is managing partner and a principal at Meunier Carlin & Curfman LLC. Meredith’s practice focuses on building and managing utility and design patent portfolios in the US and abroad for innovation focused clients and providing thoughtful and insightful counseling regarding non-infringement and invalidity of third party owned patents for mechanical, electro-mechanical, and medical device technologies . She has extensive experience in building and managing domestic and global patent portfolios in a variety of technology areas, including automotive safety systems, motors and generators, fluid flow systems, construction systems and building materials, medical devices, textiles, and fastening systems. Meredith obtained her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and a J.D. from Mercer University College of Law.
Pamela Councill
Chapter Co-Chair
Pamela Councill
Chapter Co-Chair
Partner, Alston & Bird
Susan Russell
Programs & Events Co-Chair
Susan Russell
Programs & Events Co-Chair
Managing Shareholder, Capstone Intellectual Property Law PC
Susan A. Russell is the Managing Shareholder for Capstone Intellectual Property Law PC. Susan has extensive experience with intellectual property and international matters that enables her to provide comprehensive and practical strategies to efficiently and effectively resolve complex matters for her clients. She is a trusted advisor who provides collaborative, practical, and actionable counsel to her clients on trademark, copyright, and trade secret transactions, prosecution, enforcement, and litigation. She also advises clients on international intellectual property law disputes, social media, online legal disputes, as well as right of publicity and advertising law. Susan is ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers as a leading Intellectual Property lawyer; and she is also recognized internationally as a leading Trademark Attorney by World Trademark Review. “Susan Russell is ‘a force to be reckoned with and an amazing expert on trademark issues’, according to contemporaries. She dispenses business-aligned counsel to multinationals and emerging companies alike, and shows similar range in her practice, which encompasses everything from prosecution to TTAB proceedings, ICANN disputes, infringement cases and more.” – World Trademark Review. “She is very responsible, diligent and hard-working, and is a pleasure to work with.” – Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers.
Stephanie Allen
Board Member / Programs & Events Co-Chair
Stephanie Allen
Board Member / Programs & Events Co-Chair
Assistant General Counsel, Intellectual Property, Cox Communications
LinkedIn Profile. Opens in a new tab.Stephanie Allen is Head of Intellectual Property and Assistant General Counsel for Cox Communications, Inc. where for 12+ years she has been responsible for the oversight of Cox’s intellectual property portfolio and the management of all of Cox’s non-litigation IP matters. Her extensive legal experience includes designing and implementing company-wide patent and trademark programs, conducting IP due diligence for corporate acquisitions, working with product development clients to clear and launch innovative new services and brands, negotiating IP rights, licensing, and indemnification, providing legal guidance on digital copyright law and DMCA compliance, managing IP litigation and generally counseling clients on a broad range of IP issues. Stephanie holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. of Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a J.D. from Emory University.
Emma Bienias
Sponsorship & Finance
Emma Bienias
Sponsorship & Finance
Managing Director, Stout Risius Ross
LinkedIn Profile. Opens in a new tab.| Emma Bienias is a Managing Director in the Disputes, Compliance, & Investigations group at Stout. Emma has a background in performing valuation engagements for various purposes including financial reporting, tax valuations, business reorganizations, pre-acquisition diligence, post-acquisition disputes, fairness and solvency opinions and other management planning and corporate-related matters. She also has experience providing expert litigation support for analyses of economic damages resulting from the infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property rights. Emma has been active in the legal community having co-founded the Chicago Women in IP, a networking and mentoring non-profit committed to the connection, promotion, and success of Chicagoland area women in the intellectual property law field. Emma has a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Toronto, and a Bachelors and Masters in Economics at the University of Waterloo. She also holds the Charter Financial Analyst designation. |
Aisha Marinho
Co-Chair, Community Development and Engagement
Aisha Marinho
Co-Chair, Community Development and Engagement
Registered Patent Agent, Meunier Carlin & Curfman LCC
LinkedIn Profile. Opens in a new tab.Aisha Marinho is a registered patent agent with Meunier Carlin & Curfman LCC’s Electrical, Computer and Software Group. She drafts and prosecutes patent applications for a variety of technologies involving software, artificial intelligence, medical devices, and electromechanical instruments. She is an active member of the Atlanta Chapter of ChIPs and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Community Development and Engagement Committee. She holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from Temple University and a master of science in management of intellectual property law from Queen Mary University of London.
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