Business Impact NW
John Zmolek is an experienced executive in the financial services sector, currently serving as the Chair of the Board of Directors at Business Impact NW since May 2021. Prior to this role, John Zmolek held various leadership positions at Verity Credit Union from July 1990 to September 2021, including President and CEO, as well as Executive Vice President and Chief Lending Officer. John Zmolek also led CU Home Mortgage Solutions as President from January 2009 to December 2013, providing mortgage origination and servicing solutions for credit unions in the Pacific Northwest. Earlier in the career, John Zmolek worked as an M&A Analyst at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle from 1983 to 1990 and as a Rate Economist at Pacific Gas and Electric from 1979 to 1981. John Zmolek holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Iowa State University.
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Business Impact NW
Business Impact NW provides coaching, classes, and capital to meet the needs of low/moderate-income business owners and underserved areas in Washington and Oregon; particularly, serving women, persons of color, veteran, immigrant, and LGBTQ+ owned businesses in order to create positive economic impact within these communities. Business Impact NW offers financing and coaching services at every stage in a business’s development. Through our in-house programs, we offer support classes and one-on-one counseling for all entrepreneurs, from startup to established business ownership. As a community lender, we offer business loans from $5,000-$350,000 to qualified small business entrepreneurs. We also focus on partnerships across the Pacific Northwest in order to deliver robust opportunities. This collaboration includes credit unions, banks, corporations, private foundations and gov’t agencies including the SBA and CDFI; local gov’t HUD and economic development departments; our own robust training/coaching programs with the WA Women’s Business Center and the Veterans Business Outreach Center; and diverse local community development not-for-profit partner organizations.