@ 500 W. Madison St. Suite 1150 Chicago, IL 60661 - 312 353 4540
November SUPER DEAL $39.00
Monday, November 7, 2016 from 8:45 AM to 12:00 PM
TIER l Workshop
3 - Show me the Money: Business Financing 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.
1. Borrower’s qualifications
2. How do you communicate? Know how to talk to financiers.
3. Funding Sources: Where do you go to get financing?
4. SBA Guaranteed loans: All about the SBA loan guarantee program.
5. Banker’s point of view: What is a banker's take on your qualifications?
6. Follow Up and set backs: What do you do if the banks reject your application?
Presenters:
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
Banker: Margaret Griffin 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.
Bob Esquivel, 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.
Yassenia Diaz de Leon - Accion Chicago graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Management Consulting, a minor in Latino Studies, and an International Business Certificate. Before joining ACCION
Registration Fee $50.00 November SUPER DEAL $39.00
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