Chuck Wolfe Email & Phone Number

Specialties: small and medium sized enterprise development, business incubation/acceleration and entrepreneurial ecosystem development. (www.claggettwolfe.com) Chuck has over 30 years of experience as both a serial entrepreneur and economic development consultant. Consulting work has taken him to urban and rural settings around the world to support economic development through developing a entrepreneurial ecosystems to support SME formation and growth in sectors ranging from value-added food production and tourism to advanced manufacturing and high technology. Chuck has extensive practical experience as the :founder of 2 technology startups, a private incubation/acceleration program and a non-technology startup. He has also provided business counseling and financing to minority and disadvantaged entrepreneurs/business owners, and served as loan program manager and lead underwriter for state- and community-based business loan programs.Chuck serves as an instructor in business incubation/acceleration, entrepreneurship, business retention and expansion, loan program design, loan underwriting and loan program management. He has also been a featured speaker at domestic and international conferences on fostering SME development and growth.Recently Chuck testified before the House Committee on Small Business on “The State of SBA’s Entrepreneurial Development Programs and Their Role in Promoting Economic Recovery”. He was a major contributor to the NBIA publication “Developing a Business Incubation Program: Insights and Advise for Communities”. Chuck also co-authored the 1st (2001) and 2nd (2010) editions of the NBIA publication “Best Practices in Action: Guidelines for Implementing First-Class Business Incubation Programs”.

Listed skills include Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, Strategic Planning, Small Business, and 22 others.

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  President

  Claggett Wolfe Associates

  Jun 1996 - Present