Check back regularly to meet more of the contractors who help us deliver business technical assistance in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties.

Tina Nerat

Tina Nerat of NERATECH is the Business Advisor for Southern Humboldt County and is well versed in general business issues and planning.  She has worked in the Information Technology field since 1974 in large and small businesses.  Her consulting specialties are in the areas of systems, network planning, technology processes, and project management.  She is involved locally in tech-based economic development and is a rural telcommunications advocate.

(707) 268-0777
tina@neratech.net
www.neratech.net

Suzanne Dockal

Suzanne Dockal is a Financial Strategist / Project Management Consultant. Suzanne has over 27 years of professional experience focusing on: Business Financial Analysis; Detailed Cost Analysis, Grant and Project Management, Grant Writing and Budget Development, Loan Application and Packaging Assistance, Financial Information Systems Reviews and Conversions, Financial Policy Development, Non-Profit Financial Management, Grant and Governmental Compliance Reporting,and Workshop Presenter and Trainer.

(707) 443-2053
dockal@suddenlink.net

Nancy Streufert

Nancy Streufert, Attorney at Law As a strong believer in the entrepreneurial spirit, Nancy is dedicated to serving innovation and creativity through providing legal counseling and transactions (including contracts and other legal documents) to small business owners and nonprofit organizations, particularly those in the business of the creative arts and technology. To this end, her law practice is focused on legal issues related to starting and operating a business or nonprofit organization and on intellectual property and technology, including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, patent, e-commerce, and internet law.

(707) 442-1212
nstreufert@earthlink.net

Mike Nerat

Mike Nerat of NERATECH is the Business Advisor for Eastern Humboldt County and is well versed in general business issues and planning.  He has worked in companies both large and small.  His background is in manufacturing, product development, and machining (prototyping, fixturing, CNC programming).

(707) 268-0777
mike@neratech.net
www.neratech.net

Kathryn Ehnebuske

Kathryn Ehnebuske of Azalea Business Support. Financial systems set-up and training. Specializing in setting up accounting software, training business owners and bookkeepers in entering and using financial information.

(707) 839-4612
kathryn@ehnebuske.net

Scott Q. Marcus

Sales, Marketing, Advertising, Customer service (emphasis on hard to please customers), Public speaking & presenting. Marketing assistance focused on bottom-line impact. Experience with tradeshows, grass-roots marketing, online sales. First-hand experience with all phases of product development-- design, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, etc. Background in consumer products, specializing in high-growth companies. Over 20 years of local business consulting. Three decades of media and sales background, customer service trainer for California Community Colleges. Professional award winning speaker. Weight loss and habit change expert.

(707) 442-6243
www.scottqmarcus.com

Amber Wier

Amber Wier specializes in general start-up and business counseling for sole proprietorships.  Amber has first hand experience in art/craft business development, at home business set up, gallery, art shows, special event development, grass-roots and creative marketing, as well as general business practices.

Stilson Snow

Formerly the Lead Business Advisor at the North Coast SBDC, Stilson Snow has over forty years of diverse experience in a variety of fields.  He has worked in major corporations, small companies, and has owned several of his own businesses.  Reflecting his wide areas of interest, Stilson worked as a stock broker for a major NYSE firm in Los Angeles, was an award-winning sales professional with Burroughs Corporation in Honolulu, and was general manager of a chain of retail wine and spirit shops.  He also worked in condominium property management, leading a team that submitted major successful proposals to the Resolution Trust Corporation.  He was CFO then CEO of a leading medical clinic on the North Coast before negotiating its sale to a hospital chain.

Among his own businesses have been a management consulting firm and an educational film production and distribution company speciliazing in medical subjects.  He also was on the leading edge of the very first wave of video rental businesses and has had a flight instruction/charter flying business.  Stilson has been a professional writer and editor, penning a weekly newspaper column as well as feature magazine articles.

His education includes a BA from Occidental College and an MA from the University of Hawaii.  He holds a Commercial Pilot license with single and multi-engine ratings, and a Flight Instructor Airplane/Instrument Certificate.

Stilson has generational ties to the North Coast: for many years starting in the 1880's his uncles owned a dry goods store in Eureka at the corner of Second and E.  He moved to Humboldt in 1991.  In his spare time he enjoys photography and writing novels.

(707) 637-2690
clearpix@suddenlink.net

Barbara Zoellner

"Whatever your business needs, let's talk about solutions."

That's Barbara's approach with her diverse assortment of clients.  Barbara is a Small Business Consultant and QuickBooks ProAdvisor specializing in trouble-shooting existing businesses and non-profit entities.  Assisting established businesses in optimizing their profit return is a strong emphasis of her consulting practice.  She also works with new business start-ups to ensure that bookkeeping systems give owners reliable information with which to make management decisions, and she works to train management and staff in the maintenance of those systems.

Barbara's educational background is in information systems and computer science.  She received her Master's degree from Kansas State University in 1984.  Prior to that, she attended cooking school in Portland, Oregon.  In addition to teaching at Kansas State and Northern Arizona University, she also owned and managed an imported cheese and coffee store.  She moved to the North Coast with her husband and two children in 1998, and in 2000 she and Kate Chadwick opened Hurricane Kate's in Old Town Eureka.  In 2004, Barbara decided that her interests were in assisting the diverse North Coast business and non-profit communities to optimize their business systems while giving her an opportunity to learn about the fascinating nature of these assorted endeavors.

(707) 407-5313
bmzbooks@suddenlink.net