As District Director, Gil Goldberg is responsible for directing the activities of 11 permanent SBA employees; the administration of a business portfolio of over 6,400 individual loans for a total of more than $604 million; oversight of the Ohio Small Business Development Center and 17 sub-centers; and the coordination for five chapters of SCORE, a volunteer organization that provides free business counseling. He is also responsible for the marketing efforts of the two SBA sponsored micro-lenders in the District as well as the delivery and oversight of the Agency’s 8(a), SDB, and HUBZone government contracting programs for small business. Gil also served as the National SBA representative under the Agency’s Lender Liaison Program for KeyBank and National City Bank. In addition, he was a member of the Agency’s Goals Team for four years.

Since his appointment as District Director in 1994, the District Office has focused its attention on putting the customer first by instituting a “cut the red tape campaign” and by holding the staff accountable to quantifiable performance standards through individual empowerment. This bottom line focus on the customer has enabled the District Office to outpace the nation in loan growth in FY95, FY96, FY97, FY98, and FY99. For FY05 the Agency recognized the District Office as the national leader in 7(a) loan growth.

The district in FY99 also developed a campaign that enabled it to achieve record loan growth for African Americans and Hispanics. Crain’s Cleveland Business recognized the results of the campaign in a November 22, 1999 commentary by publisher Brian Tucker entitled “SBA, local banks are right on target.”

In FY2000, the District developed a unique initiative for the economic revitalization of the City of Youngstown by combining SBA resources with those from the banking community and the City. The revitalization initiative couples SBA guaranteed loans with supplemental equity funding and economic assistance from the City of Youngstown. The initiative was expanded to Akron and Toledo in 2002 and 2003 respectively. The District has also developed a similar type of initiative with Cuyahoga County, The Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, and the Hebrew Free Loan Association for the City of East Cleveland.

Before coming to the SBA as District Director in 1994, Mr. Goldberg spent 20 years in commercial banking. The last ten years were devoted to middle market and entrepreneurial business development in Northern Ohio. He also served as Assistant Treasurer for the Leader Mortgage Company in Cleveland, where he was responsible for treasury operations, including cash management and banking relations. Before that, he was a Vice President at Chase Bank of Ohio.

Mr. Goldberg holds a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.

Gil resides in Shaker Heights with his wife Marcia. They have three grown children.