East Bay SBDC in-person advising for small business comes to the Concord City Hall! We have partnered with the City of Concord Economic Development Department to provide no-cost in-person advising sessions. Ask your questions, get advice and learn how East Bay SBDC can help you start and grow your business.
Schedule
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Schedule your advising session in CONCORD
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Location Concord City Hall – Wing A conference room (Wing A is the building with the double glass doors) 1950 Parkside Drive Concord, CA 94519 Concord City Hall Map
Schedule Mondays between 1pm – 5pm (45 min appointments) January 6th, 13th, 27th 2025 February 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th 2025 March 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th 2025 April 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th 2025 May 5th, 12th, 19th 2025 June 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th 2025
Sandy Markus has been in entrepreneurial environments her whole professional career in corporate divisions, venture capital funded start-ups, and launched her own small business. She has been a lead SBDC Advisor and Trainer for startup businesses for six years.
Sandy brings a unique understanding and experience in and with start-ups, marketing, and business development in the service, retail, wholesale, software-as-a-service, education, and nonprofit sectors.
John DeGaetano
Schedule 3/25/2024 6/17/2024 7/15/2024 10/7/2024
John DeGaetano is a former bank executive with a strong background in management and leadership.
John served as First Vice President and Regional Manager for a community bank in the Bay Area where he played a major role in the bank’s growth development.
John advises new and existing business owners in the areas of business planning, finance, sales, and disaster planning.
Peter Lou
Schedule 8/5/2024 9/23/2024 10/14/2024 11/4/2024
Peter Lou is a banking professional with 25+ years of experience working for Ernst & Young Management Consulting, Wells Fargo Bank (1998-2024; VP and Director: Business Banking, Corporate Banking, Corporate Treasury, Private Banking, Treasury Management); Union Bank (Corporate Credit Policy & Portfolio Management, Commercial Real Estate CRE Lending Group ). Recipient of UCLA Instructor Excellence Award 2023. Golden Gate University (GGU) / Stanford University: Distinguished Adjunct Professor. Teach classes in Business Finance, Bank Management, Business Fundamentals, Business Risk Management, etc.
Sneha Lundia
Schedule 8/26/2024 9/30/2024 10/21/2024
As a Founder & CEO of Step2Growth, Sneha is a results-driven professional with a diverse background encompassing leadership, marketing, mentoring, and consulting. She demonstrated success in driving business growth, optimizing marketing initiatives, and providing valuable insights to organizations. She is adept at leveraging technical and analytical skills to deliver innovative solutions and has strong communication and collaboration abilities, combined with a passion for technology and entrepreneurship.
Laurie Zerga is a Strategic Business Advisor at SBDC and loves helping entrepreneurs with marketing, IT, customer service, startups and p&l accountability from $2M to $45M. She is an accomplished senior executive, C-Suite officer, consultant, entrepreneur, thought leader, and board member with over 25 years of success across financial services, food, international technology and engineering industries.
Additional Information
Waitlist Please email ebinfo@eastbaysbdc.org with your preferred dates to be added to the waitlist. If a cancellation occurs, we will reach out to you.
Parking The Willow Pass Road parking lot, which is about 2963 Willow Pass Road. This is the closest parking lot to the Wing A conference room.
Cancellation Policy
We have limited resources available for in-person one-on-one individual counseling at the City of Concord.
To save spaces for those individual/business who need one-on-one counseling, if any business has “No Show” or “Same Day cancellation” for their appointment session with the SBDC Advisor, this individual or business will no longer receive any counseling service from the East Bay SBDC in the future, especially not in-person advising at the City of Concord.
If you must cancel your appointment, please remove your name from the schedule and notify us by Thursday the week before your appointment to give us time to fill your spot with another business. If a business does not confirm their appointment by Friday 8 am the week before, their appointment time will be given to another business that is waiting for an appointment time slot.
