NBJ 2024 Recap from Petra Last month Elan, Bryan, and I attended the 2024 NBJ Summit at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, CA. This event has become a highlight of my summer, always held in a beautiful place with thought-provoking speakers. It not only educates and inspires but also renews and refreshes. The State […]
Category: Perspectives
Choosing a Lab – Interview
How to Choose a Lab Content Piece Interview with Elan Where did this idea come from? In full transparency, which is kind of my thing, the idea was birthed as a gorilla marketing campaign to combat a particular lab doing harm to our industry. It was a subversive way to call them out without getting […]
DSHEA Summit Recap
DSHEA Summit Recap Nick Crowning, Business Development Manager, attended the DSHEA Summit in early June and shares this assessment: It was an honor to join some our industry’s founding members in Salt Lake City to discuss the past, present, and future of DSHEA. A special thanks to Stephen Daniells and NutraIngredients-USA for putting this gathering […]
We Effing Told You So
We Effing Told You So By Elan Sudberg Early in my career, I attended a few seminars with the great executive coach Marshal Goldsmith. Among many things, he preached to us future leaders the social importance NOT to always prove we are right (leaving a tiny room for proving we were right sometimes). And so, […]
Sid Sudberg AHPA Herbal Insight Award Speech
Sid’s AHPA Herbal Insights Award Acceptance Speech Well, good morning, everyone and thank you very much. I had three different speeches written but I’m just going to kind of wing it here only using a few notes. What I wanted to tell you is a little bit about the history of what we’ve done, where […]
Pittcon and Psychedelics
Pittcon and Psychedelics Notes from our lab director Anthony Fontana PhD: Pittcon, celebrating 75 years, is an international conference focusing on laboratory science. Alkemist was invited to present our ISO-17025 validated psychedelic method at Pittcon 2024 conference February 27-29th in San Diego, CA. For the first time the Pittcon organizers included two psychedelic symposium sessions: […]
Expo West 2024 Recap
Expo West Reflections from Petra and Elan Elan: Between reconnecting with some of my favorite people on this planet, getting stuff done at AHPA board meetings and watching my excellent sales team do what they do best, I think I have said this out loud at least 26 times before, but this latest Expo West […]
Elan’s Reflections on 2023
Elan’s Reflections on 2023 By Elan Sudberg A new year is upon us, which means once again I take a snippet of time to reflect on the previous year for both Alkemist Labs and myself personally. 2023 was a banner year for Alkemist Labs and can be validated with the normal KPIs like revenue, profit, […]
New Participants and Products in Alkemist Assured
Alkemist Labs Announces New Participants and Products in Alkemist Assured™ Transparency Program Garden Grove, CA (November 30, 2023) –The Alkemist Labs Alkemist Assured™ testing transparency program continues to attract new participants from among ingredient suppliers and finished product companies in the nutraceuticals industry. The most recent participating companies and products in Alkemist Assured include: Finished Products […]
SSW 2023 Reflections
SSW 2023 Recap Elan’s SSW Reflections SSW23 was the best SSW ever. I think I have said that every year, as the show keeps getting better as does our traction in the industry. Aside from the joy of being with all my industry friends and clients, and unofficially crushing the men’s costume contest at the […]