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Doug Devereaux

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Doug Devereaux is a Senior Industrial Specialist at MEP, where he focuses on the capture and dissemination of financial resources and strategies that can be used by MEP centers to help manufacturers develop innovative products or expand markets and sales. Over his 25 years experience at the state and federal Departments of Commerce, Doug has led industrial missions to the Pacific Rim and produced various publications involving such topics as laboratory technology transfer, business incubator practices, science and engineering trends in Asia, and community approaches to angel capital investment.

Why Business Loans Get Rejected

Doug Devereaux
Access to capital, especially access by small privately held companies, is a component of growth. According to an article in Forbes magazine, citing data from Pepperdine University’s 2014 Capital