Charles Green is a seasoned finance professional with more than 30 years’ experience as a business lender, primarily focused on funding the small business sector. He founded and served as President/CEO of Sunrise Bank of Atlanta. In addition he served as a director for several U.S. and foreign companies. Charles presently serves as Governing Board Chair of Atlanta Medical Center, a 760-bed for-profit hospital in Atlanta owned by Tenet Healthcare Corporation.
He has written extensively about business financing through numerous articles and books, including the bestselling The SBA Loan Book, 3rd Edition (Adams Media, 2011) and Get Financing Now (McGraw-Hill, 2012). In addition, he has written a published a considerable number of articles concerning small business capital formation. More information about those articles can be found here.
Charles earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Alabama, diploma from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the Wharton School of Business and completed Executive Education at Harvard Business School. He has been a source of information about commercial lending and capital formation for many business media outlets. More information about these interviews can be found here.
He has also served on many non-profit organization boards including as organizing Chair for Georgia Resource Capital, a certified development company, an organizing committee member and Chair for Georgia Lenders Quality Circle and the Georgia affiliate of micro lender ACCION. In 2005 he was named the Financial Services Champion by the Georgia District of the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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