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David G. Bluemling is chief executive officer of Malin, Bergquist & Company, LLP, one of the largest and most aggressively-growing CPA firms in Western Pennsylvania. A Pittsburgh Business Times Fast Tracker, he has led the firm’s fourfold growth since 2001 through a series of strategic mergers and a laserlike focus on building specialty niche practices.The firm’s differentiating strengths are serving foreign-owned businesses in Western Pennsylvania, and providing SEC/Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and initial public offering audit services for public companies.David is frequently featured in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Business Times, and is an annual presenter at the Business Times’ Pittsburgh 100 awards honoring the region’s fastest growing companies. He is the firm’s regional investor representative to the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. He also guides the firm’s sponsorship of the German-American Business Circle and British American Business Council to support high-end economic development initiatives in the region.In his own tax practice, David serves a number of publicly traded and closely held companies. In the foreign arena, one of his clients is a $200 million, German-owned plastics manufacturer which has expanded significantly into Canada, Mexico and South America. He has assisted a $120 European-owned adhesives manufacturer while it tripled in size overnight through an acquisition, brokering an unusual agreement on the deal's structure with the Fortune 500 seller, providing the buyer with significant tax benefits.David is an expert in R&D credits and has helped clients obtain federal and state tax credits of more than $1 million. He uses cost segregation studies to help clients increase cash flow through accelerated tax depreciation. He also specializes in tax and business valuation and handles domestic estate and wealth transfer plans, S corporations and multi-state tax issues. He has been a certified valuation analyst since 1997 and a CPA since 1987.With an ever-higher profile in the community, David is immediate past chair of the Baierl Family YMCA and is its representative to the YMCA of Pittsburgh’s Metropolitan Board. He is president of the Estate Planning Council of Pittsburgh and a board director of YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee/Spencer, raising more than $100,000 for programs for the disabled. He is a 1985 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and resides with his wife Sheila and their three sons in Marshall Township. | 