Our Sponsors - Portland Metro Chapter

Access Business Finance

U.S. asset-based lender that provides working capital for businesses unable to qualify for traditional bank financing. Their creative asset-based loans, commercial lines of credit, real estate loans and factoring rebuild business’s financial strength.

Banner Bank

Banner Bank is a dynamic full-service financial institution, operating safely and profitably within a framework of shared integrity. They emphasize strong client relationships and a high level of community involvement.

Cascade Credit Services, Inc.

CCS provides collateral examination services covering receivable and inventory loans made by lenders throughout the region. Since 1995, Cascade has developed expertise that reflects the specific needs of lenders serving industries in the regions they cover.

Columbia Bank

Columbia Bank is a Northwest community bank in WA, OR and ID providing comprehensive solutions and expertise to meet the evolving needs of businesses and individuals. They have grown both organically and through acquisition, leveraging a community-minded, locally committed way of doing business from a single branch to a 150+ branch regional footprint.

The Commerce Bank of Oregon

A team of business banking experts eager to listen, learn and help businesses grow. Conveniently located right here in Portland, they offer the best of both worlds: local empowered decision-makers with the products and services of a big bank.

Evergreen Business Capital

Evergreen Business Capital is the Northwest’s leading CDC Loan Program expert. Since 1980, we’ve partnered with lenders in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Northern Idaho to provide loans for small businesses in the Northwest.

Lane Powell

A multi-specialty law firm, Lane Powell has helped emerging and established businesses navigate the Pacific Northwest and beyond for more than 140 years. Respected clients — from individuals to small businesses to Fortune 500 companies — turn to them for trusted legal counsel. They handle a broad range of litigation matters including complex litigation, securities, commercial cases, creditor-debtor and bankruptcy, employment, antitrust, health care, intellectual property and Internet.

Geffen Mesher

Since their beginning in 1933, Geffen Mesher’s focus has been on supporting the lives, plans and goals of people – those they serve as well as those who call the firm home. Geffen Mesher is committed to individuals, a fact that guides them as they support clients through booms and busts, recessions and recoveries, life changes, business dynamics and more. They know that the quality of professional tax, financial consulting and reporting services affects the lives and financial well-being of those they serve and work from a set of values that point back to the people-side of the equation.

Farleigh Wada Witt

Farleigh Wada Witt was created in 1981 with a single purpose and massive ambition. The mission still remains the same as the day it was created: “To provide timely and effective legal service and guide clients to success in a competitive marketplace. We combine wisdom and creativity to solve client problems and use experience and technology to deliver insightful legal advice, in hours instead of weeks.”

Stoel Rives, LLP

Business law firm providing corporate and litigation services to a wide range of clients throughout the United States. The firm has over 350 attorneys operating out of 10 offices in eight states. Stoel Rives is regarded as a leader in energy, real estate, project development, land use and construction, natural resources, real estate, renewable energy and technology law.

Heritage Bank

Heritage Bank was founded in 1927 with the belief that when banks and neighbors work together, great communities grow stronger. Heritage has remained true to this vision—and close to their roots—offering financial solutions that put their customers and local businesses first.

Miller Nash Graham & Dunn

At Miller Nash Graham & Dunn, we like to think of ourselves as an established firm with strong traditions and fresh ideas. Although our roots in the Pacific Northwest go back more than a century, we pride ourselves on being creative thinkers who are committed to serving our clients, our community and each other in smart and innovative ways.

Foster Garvey

Foster Garvey was established through the combination of two, storied Pacific Northwest-based law firms, Garvey Schubert Barer, PC and Foster Pepper PLLC, in 2019. Foster Garvey is now one of the largest firms in the region with approximately 180 attorneys in six offices in Seattle, Portland, Washington, D.C., New York, Spokane and Beijing, offering an extended national and international reach to serve several of the most influential and innovative companies, governments and individuals in the country across the full spectrum of legal services. The creation of Foster Garvey also brought together highly experienced attorneys capable of representing financial institutions in all aspects of the law.