TIER l - AM Workshop
Show me the Money: Financing your Business Options
Understand the various ways you might finance your business and how to approach friends and family, angel investors, banks and venture capitalists. Learn to prepare the documents you will need to submit for each. A guest banker will present criteria banks use to determine credit worthiness and a representative from the SBA will discuss the SBA loan guarantee program.
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1. Borrower’s qualifications Presenters: Margaret Griffin, Banker joined Ridgestone Bank's SBA commercial lending team in March, 2012. She has more than 25 years in banking, 15 of which have been in the turnaround workout industry. The concentration of her clients has been in the industries of manufacturing, equipment leasing, construction, real estate and healthcare. Griffin owned her own consulting and financial advising firm for 10 years and provides Ridgestone with expertise in offering finance options to commercial customers. Robert Nutt is President and Managing Director of Paceline Advisors. Paceline Advisors provides strategic, business and financial guidance to small and middle market privately held businesses. During his 30 year career, Robert has served in executive, financial and operational leadership positions for both privately held and publicly traded organizations |
Robert Esquivel, SBA Chief of Lender Relations, has been with the SBA since 1988. Mr. Esquivel directs and coordinates Lender Relations Specialist in evaluating Lender services and promoting the District financing programs, including 7(a) general business loans, 504 loans, Export revolving lines of credit and all other loan programs implemented by the Agency. Prior to working for the SBA, he was a Vice President of local a community bank in Chicago, where he had worked for fourteen (14) years
Victoria Brazen She joined the Accion lending team in September 2015 as a loan officer. Victoria has a BA in Economics from DePaul University. During her time at DePaul, she had the opportunity to study in Chile and in Spain. Victoria’s interest in microfinance stems from her experiences abroad and through her research for her undergraduate thesis centered around economic development in Chile. She is from the Kansas City area and speaks both English and Spanish.
When: Monday, June 20, 2016 from 8:45 to 12:00 PM
Where: SCORE Chicago 500 W. Madison St., Suite 1150 Chicago, IL., 60661
Phone 312 353 4540
REGISTRATION FEE $50.00
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