LSU Lands Small Enterprise Improvement Heart Director

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Louisiana Small Enterprise Improvement Heart at LSU Director Adam C. McCloskey

BATON ROUGE – Adam C. McCloskey has been named director of the Louisiana Small Enterprise
Improvement Heart at LSU. 

At LSU, McCloskey leads an workplace that gives no-cost consulting to small enterprise
and aspiring entrepreneurs within the nine-parish capital area. The SBDC affords skilled
recommendation on points from cash-flow administration, securing loans, enterprise planning and
all the things in between.  The LSU Heart additionally has a statewide mandate to assist firms
centered on bringing expertise to market.

“I get pleasure from that after I go residence at evening, I can take into consideration how I’ve helped another person
get nearer to their goals. That’s in the end the position of the SBDC, and I’m glad
to play my half,” McCloskey stated.  His consulting will focus on enterprise valuation
and acquisition, promoting, and monetary administration.

The Small Enterprise Improvement Heart at LSU is a part of the LSU Workplace of Innovation & Ecosystem Improvement, which oversees the LSU Innovation Park and LSU Workplace of Innovation & Expertise
Commercialization. LSU Innovation’s companies additionally embody help for Louisiana firms
connecting to federal laboratories and making use of for Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis
grant funding.

McCloskey beforehand served because the affiliate director for the Florida Small Enterprise
Improvement Heart on the College of West Florida, or UWF. He joined the group
in 2016 and was promoted to affiliate director a yr later. In 2019, McCloskey gained
the SBDC’s prime award for consulting, the Florida SBDC Community State Star. In 2021,
he gained the primary annual UWF Faculty of Enterprise Dean’s Selection Award.

“We’re enthusiastic about bringing Adam on board and equally assured his expertise as
Florida’s prime SBDC guide will assist us improve and develop the companies we provide
to small companies and entrepreneurs,” stated Robert R. Twilley, interim vp,
LSU Workplace of Analysis & Financial Improvement.

McCloskey stated the choice to affix LSU was simple.

“I wished to go someplace that individuals had been keen to work exhausting — not simply speak about
the work they might do,” McCloskey stated. “It was clear that was what everybody at LSU
Innovation is about.”

McCloskey earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics & telecommunications from the College
of West Florida and a Grasp of Science in utilized economics with concentrations in
monetary economics and regional financial growth from Georgia Southern College.
He additionally holds the designation of Financial Improvement Finance Skilled from the
Nationwide Improvement Council and Affiliate Enterprise Continuity Skilled from DRI
Worldwide. He’s a Enterprise Licensed Appraiser with the Worldwide Society
of Enterprise Appraisers.

McCloskey grew up in Pensacola, south of Interstate 10. Shifting to Baton Rouge isn’t
that large of a change for him.

“I traded the water for the meals. I believe I’ll come out forward,” he stated.

Louisiana Small Enterprise Improvement Heart, or LSBDC, is a community consisting of
10 regional workplaces together with the SBDC at LSU led by McCloskey. LSU can be the host group for the statewide community that gives coaching and technical help to small companies and entrepreneurs
all through Louisiana, which is led by Bryan Greenwood.

About LSU Innovation 

LSU Innovation works with the LSU analysis group to facilitate the analysis,
safety and licensing of mental property created at LSU. LSU Innovation additionally
focuses on establishing, creating and rising technology-based startup firms.
This work maximizes the college’s affect on the mental, financial and social
growth of Louisiana and past. LSU Innovation helps LSU entrepreneurs and the
group consider their discoveries and concepts, mechanisms for safeguarding their improvements,
advertising and business negotiations for mental property and licensing and different
agreements. The workplace additionally oversees LSU Innovation Park, a enterprise incubator with
greater than 200 acres and 80,000 sq. ft of workplace and lab house.