Are You Ready to Export? Resources for Manufacturing Exporters

Event description

October is Manufacturing Month!

Join the SBA Seattle District and the SBA Office of Manufacturing and Trade to learn about resources to help small business manufacturers sell internationally. Topics covered will include:

• Overview of the SBA Made in America Manufacturing Initiative
• Hear from local small business manufacturers about their journey into exporting

Wednesday Webinars

Wednesday Webinars with SBA Seattle is an ongoing series of free, virtual, webinars covering a variety of topics to benefit small business owners. The Are You Ready to Export series features conversations with different members of the Washington Export Outreach Team (WEOT). Established in 2013 following a national mandate to do more to support international trade, WEOT is a collaborative team of local, state, regional, and federal export assistance agencies who provide you the tools and resources you need to sell internationally.

About the Host

John Brislin is SBA's International Trade & Finance Specialist (Export Finance Manager) for Washington State, Northern Idaho and Alaska. He has over 23 years of private-sector international banking and trade finance experience working at Bank of Boston (Bank of America) and Bank of California (U.S. Bank). John has over 12 years of public-sector export trade finance and risk mitigation experience working at Export Finance Assistance Center of Washington (EFACW), Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) and SBA Office of International Trade (SBA OIT). He looks forward to working with Small Businesses so they can turn their export opportunities into actual sales and to achieve the ultimate goal of getting paid—especially on time—for those sales.

Guest Speakers

• Mark Norton, Northwest I-90 Manufacturing Alliance (NIMA)
• Kirk Davis, Center for Advanced Manufacturing Puget Sound (CAMPS)