Take your business to the next level

with in-person advising right in San Leandro

Funded by the City of San Leandro, we have partnered with the City of San Leandro Community Development Department and San Leandro Chamber of Commerce to provide no-cost in-person advising sessions to small businesses in San Leandro. Ask your questions, get advice and learn how East Bay SBDC can help you start and grow your business.

Schedule

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Appointments are for businesses located or doing business in San Leandro.

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Location
San Leandro Chamber of Commerce
120 Estudillo Ave.
San Leandro, CA 94577

Schedule
Third Tuesday of the month, between 10am – 1pm (45 min appointments)
September 16th, 2025
October 21st, 2025
November 18th, 2025
December 16th, 2025

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.

Our Advisors

Pablo Gomez

Spanish + English

Schedule
9/16/2025
10/21/2025

Pablo Gomez forms part of the SBDC group as a Small Business Advisor with 5 years of experience in Small Business Advising and 7 years of experience in healthcare business compliance advising. Pablo holds a Master’s in Business Administration from CSU East Bay and is a certified business analyst from the Project Management Institute. He has participated in Corporate Finance research and holds a passion for financing, marketing (SEO & social media experienced) and business plan creation & implementation and start-up guidance.

Peter Lou

Mandarin + English

Schedule
11/18/2025
12/16/2025

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.

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.

Cancellation Policy

We have limited resources available for in-person one-on-one individual counseling at the City of San Leandro.

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 San Leandro.

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.

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