Oct 14, 2013 Speaker: Conrad Cooper, SBDC Business Advisor

Conrad Cooper is a Business Advisor at the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Lamar State College-Port Arthur.  The SBDC opened at Lamar in February 1998 as a service to the businesses in our community.  The center provides free consulting to local enterpreneurs and potential start-ups.  Since their inception, they have created almost $77million in business capital, 447 new jobs, 295 new businesses, and held 499 training seminars.  The staff have many years of entrepreneurial experience, that include Linda Tait as Director, Rex Steele in the role of Business Advisor, and Sandra Louis as office administrator.