John Brislin

About John Brislin

John Brislin is SBA\'s International Trade & Finance Specialist (Export Finance Manager) for Washington State, Alaska, and Idaho. He has over 23 years of private-sector international banking and trade finance experience and over 15 years of public-sector export trade finance and risk mitigation experience. John was profiled in Association of Washington Business’s Washington Business Magazine as an Export Finance Matchmaker. He previously worked for the Export-Import Bank of the United States supporting businesses in Washington State, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Northern Nevada. Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. John has been nicknamed the Johnny Appleseed of Export Finance in the Pacific Northwest. He looks forward to working with Pacific Northwest Small Businesses so they can turn their international business opportunities into actual sales and to achieve the ultimate goal of getting paid—especially on time—for those sales. John is not an official spokesman for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

Experience

1. International Trade & Finance Specialist - Sba Office of Manufacturing & Trade

   U.S. Small Business Administration

   Sep 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Serve as International Trade & Finance Specialist (Export Finance Manager) with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)- Office of Manufacturing & Trade (OMT) out of the Seattle U.S. Export Assistance Center to support small business exporters in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Northern Nevada, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands with the assistance of SBA Export Lenders, SBA Resource Partners and Stakeholders.Export financing is a key competitive factor for U.S. Exporters to increase their chances of success internationally. SBA offers a broad variety of loan guaranty programs that will enable small businesses to obtain working capital to finance export market development, pre- and post-shipment needs, increase global competitiveness, enhance your ability to export a product or service and finance the acquisition of long-term fixed assets.Do you need short-term export working capital to support labor or to buy raw materials to produce products for exporting? SBA’s Export Working Capital (EWCP) loan can be tailored specifically to fund a pre-export or post export financing on a revolving line of credit basis. Do you need additional equipment, machinery, or improved facilities to meet an export order request? SBA’s International Trade Loan Program (ITL) provides a combination of fixed asset, permanent working capital, and related debt refinancing.Do you need to enhance your company’s export market development including eCommerce in today’s Phygital world? SBA’s Export Express Loan Program can take the form of a term loan or a revolving line of credit to fund participation in a foreign trade show, finance standby letters of credit, translate product literature for use in foreign markets, finance specific export orders, as well as to finance expansions, equipment purchases, and inventory or real estate acquisitions for any purpose that increases a company’s ability to export.

Education

• Questrom School of Business, Boston University

  BS, Business Administration

  1979 — 1984

Skills

• Lines of Credit
• International Sales
• Finance
• Export
• Event Planning
• International Business
• Methods of Payment in International Trade
• Workshops
• International Trade
• Foreign Buyer Financing
• Export Working Capital Financing
• Export Finance
• Management
• Small Business Lending
• Financial Analysis
• Business Development
• Documentary Collections
• Incoterms
• Public Speaking
• Letters of Credit
• Non-Profit Administration
• Credit
• Structured Finance
• Commercial Banking
• Loans
• Commercial Lending
• Trade Finance
• Standby Letters of Credit
• Inco Terms
• Credit Risk
• Credit Analysis
• Banking
• Risk Management
• Asset Based Lending
• Export Credit Insurance
• Import/Export
• Program Management