Robert ESquivel

Robert Esquivel

Supervisory Lender Relations Specialist

U.S. Small Business Administration 

robert.esquivel@SBA.gov 

Robert Esquivel, Supervisory Lender Relations Specialist, has been with the SBA since 1988.  He is responsible for the Lender Relations Section which includes screening, interviewing, counseling, marketing, and assisting Lenders with processing applications for financial assistance from small businesses under the various financing programs in the Illinois District Office.  Mr. Esquivel directs and coordinates Lender Relations Specialist in evaluating Lender services and promoting the District financing programs, including 7(a) general business loans, 504 loans, Export revolving lines of credit and all other loan programs implemented by the Agency.  Prior to working for the SBA, he was a Vice President of local community bank in Chicago, where he had worked for fourteen (14) years. Mr. Esquivel has attended and successfully completed the Graduate School of Banking at University of Wisconsin and the Illinois Banking School at Southern Illinois University.