Discover the Secret Sauce: Small Businesses Thriving in Portsmouth

Fees/Admission

Free event
 

• SBA New England Regional Administrator Mike Vlacich and Portsmouth Mayor Deaglan McEachern will kick off the event.
• Sean Clancy, Assistant City Manager for Economic Development, Portsmouth, will moderate the event
• Hear from two panels:
  • Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Spirit – A panel of Portsmouth-based business owners who will discuss why they choose Portsmouth and the benefits to doing business in the Port City.
  • Business Resource Panel – Meet your local business advisors and mentors who provide 1-on-1 individualized guidance and training opportunity to area businesses and some of the local clients they serve. 

Agenda

8:30 - Coffee / Tea / Networking
9:00 - Introduction - SBA New England Regional Administrator Mike Vlacich / Mayor Deaglan McEachern
9:30 - Panel #1 - Why Portsmouth Works? (Amy Bassett, District Director at U.S. Small Business Administration and Ben VanCamp, President & Chief Collaborator of the Chamber Collaborative of Greater Portsmouth, to moderate)

• Drift - Owner Emily Stearns
• Dwyer's Pub - Kevin Dwyer
• SoHo Creative Studio - Michael Cinquino

10:30 - Break
10:45 - Panel #2 - Resources (Amy Bassett, District Director at U.S. Small Business Administration to moderate)

• Ed Miles, Seacoast Regional Director of the NH Small Business Development Center
• Steve Goldberg - Seacoast SCORE
• SBDC - Port City Pretzels - Owner Suzanne Foley
• Jonathan Smith, VP – Small Business Lending, Live Oak Bank
• Centrus Digital - Owner Jonathan Day

11:45 - Thank you