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Finance Committee

The Finance Committee includes representatives from area commercial financial institutions, public and private venture capital firms and public agencies with lending programs. The Committee’s charge was to provide input to the city and PDC on the best ways to meet the capital and financing needs of local industry to support their growth and development. The Committee’s input will be incorporated into Portland’s Economic Development Strategy, along with the recommendations from other policy level committees and 10 key industry panels.

The Finance Committee’'s work began after the 10 Industry Panels have finished meeting. The output from each Industry Panel will include an assessment of the issues, challenges and opportunities facing the industry and recommended strategies to address those challenges and opportunities.

The Finance Committee’s task was to review recommended strategies related to capital availability and financial assistance needs as factors impacting the region’s economic health, that have been developed by each of 10 Industry Panels.

The members of the Finance Committee include:

Fred Atiemo, Portland Development Commission

Drew Barden, City of Portland, Office of Financial Management

Mike Foglia, Wells Fargo Bank

Phil Gentry, Small Business Association

David Harmon, ShoreBank

Gordan Hoffman, Northwest Technology Ventures

Mark Houston, Oregon Economic & Community Development

Keith Jackson, Albina Community Bank

Raymond Lanza-Weil, Cascadia Revolving Fund

Tom Lowles, Small Business Development Center

Norris Lozano, Portland Development Commission

Robert Ludlum, KeyBank

Hugh Mackworth, Portland Angel Network

William Newman, Northwest Technology Ventures

Linda Weston, Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum

Ted Winnowski, Centennial Bank

John Woolley, Tamarack Mezzanie Partners

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