About the Author

Charles H. Green is a seasoned finance professional with over 30 years experience as a commercial banker, mostly funding the small business sector. He founded and served as president/CEO of Sunrise Bank of Atlanta. Charles presently advises a broad list of financial service companies.

He has written extensively about business financing through articles and books including Get Financing Now (McGraw-Hill, 2012) and the bestselling The SBA Loan Book, 3rd Edition (Adams Media, 2011). He earned a BS in finance from the University of Alabama (1979) and a diploma at the Stonier National Graduate School of Banking (2009).

Charles teaches business lending through a number of channels including the Stonier National Graduate School of Banking, ABA’s Graduate School of Commercial Lending, the Graduate School of Banking at University of Wisconsin, and Coleman SBA Webinars.

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Alicia Butler Pierre is CEO of Equilibria, Inc., an operations management firm specializing in creating processes and systems that help companies reduce waste and minimize operational defects. She earned a BS in Chemical Engineering with minors in technical sales and chemistry from Louisiana State University (1999), and an MBA with concentrations in marketing and management from Tulane University (2004).

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