NCMA General Meeting
8:00 A.M., Thursday, October 24, 2024
Pasco Hernando State College S Building 2nd Floor Room 207
10230 Ridge Road, Newport Richey, FL 34654
RSVP Below!
“Financial Resources for Your Manufacturing Business”
Speakers:
• Brad Owens, Florida, SBDC, USF. – “SBA Loans and Government Grants”
• Skip Miller, Senior Vice President/Truist – “Your Access to Working & Growth Capital”
How will your business get the money it needs?
Enjoy:
• Free Continental Breakfast
• Door Prizes
• Networking with other manufacturers
• Learn about other resources to help your business!
Skip Miller
Senior Vice President
Truist
Skip is a Senior Vice President for Truist Financial Corporation. Skip began his career with SunTrust in October of ’03 as a Management Associate. At the time, it was a year long training program and within a few months of his tenure, he was placed into a Business Banking Officer role in Pasco County. After four years as a Business Banker, he became the team leader for the Nature Coast Market and managed a team of bankers that covered Pasco, Hernando, Citrus and Sumter Counties. In ‘12, he became a Commercial Banker for SunTrust covering the Tampa Region, delivering strategic financing solutions to clients ranging from $20mm-$500mm in revenue and executing complex acquisition and LBO/MBO financing transactions. In ’21 he officially moved into the Middle Market sector where he continues to focus on being that strategic partner for our clients and helping them to acheive their growth goals.
Skip is very focused on his Community and holds a board position or leadership role within the following organizations; Leadership Tampa Bay, Pasco Hernando State College Foundation, Pasco Economic Development Council, First Housing Development Corp of Florida, University of South Florida, Leadership Florida and Academy at the Lakes.
He is a Tampa Region native and attended the University of South Florida and he and his family currently reside in the Sarasota market.
Truist Financial Corporation is a purpose-driven financial services company committed to inspire and build better lives and communities. With 275 years of combined BB&T and SunTrust history, Truist serves approximately 12 million households with leading market share in many high-growth markets in the country. The company offers a wide range of services including retail, small business and commercial banking; asset management; capital markets; commercial real estate; corporate and institutional banking; insurance; mortgage; payments; specialized lending and wealth management.
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist is the sixth-largest commercial bank in the U.S. Truist Bank, Member FDIC. Learn more at Truist.com
401 East Jackson St. 20th Floor
Tampa, Fl 33602
Office: (813) 24-2421
Email: Skip.Miller@Truist.Com
Brad Owens
Consultant
SBDC at USF
Industry Experience: Banking
Professional Certifications: Profit Mastery Trainer
Consulting Specialty Areas: Business Plan Financial Forecasts,
Capital Access, Financial Analysis
Brad Owens grew up in South Carolina, and moved to Florida after graduating with a bachelor’sin business administration and sociology from Presbyterian College. He began his banking career with Barnett Bank where he completed formalized commercial credit training and served as a credit analyst before accepting his first role as a commercial lender. He moved his wife and two kids to Tampa in 1998 to go into the insurance industry selling employer-paid benefits of long term disability and life insurance. His accomplishments in that industry including selling one of the largest disability and life policies in the state covering the faculty medical doctors and staff of the college of medicine of a state university.
He then transitioned back into banking where he was responsible for the SBA lending of Bank of America in the Greater Tampa Bay market. During his stint with Bank of America, he served on the Florida SBDC at USF Advisory Board for three years, and in 2005 was the first inductee into their Lenders’ Hall of Fame. He later worked for Fifth Third Bank, Bay Cities Bank and Suncoast Credit Union where he assisted businesses with conventional and SBA lending for their expansion and growth efforts, as well as to help them get started.
Along the way in his banking career he started a small business of his own which became very successful and is today owned and operated by his wife. At the Florida SBDC at USF he provides business owners with no-cost confidential business consulting in the area of financing assistance, utilizing his banking experience.