When analyzing a new partnership, is working with a small company better than working with a large firm?  What does it mean to you to work with someone that understands your industry and your unique needs?

At Specialty Coffee Finance, we take great pride in understanding the needs of a small café or roaster. We’ve helped many small business owners grow in these increasingly competitive times.

We could go on and on about the benefits of working with a small company like Specialty Coffee Finance over a larger company, but at the end of the day, we believe that the biggest point we can make is that by working with Specialty Coffee Finance, a small company, YOU MATTER. EVERY DEAL, EVERY RELATIONSHIP, EVERY DAY. They directly impact our success and whether we continue to survive and grow. Bottom-line, OUR RELATIONSHIP MATTERS!

Specialty Coffee Finance brings depth of over 30 commercial national lenders under one umbrella. What does this mean to our customers? It means that we bring a tremendously wide credit window to the table. So whether you work with start-up companies or a 50 year old family owned company, or whether you have been through a distressed credit situation or are fortunate enough to never have a credit blemish, we have the leasing programs to meet those needs.

Skip Wehner has over 20 years of commercial lending experience. He began his leasing career (even though he didn’t know it was starting at the time) back in 1985 as a receptionist and file clerk for a Denver based leasing company while still in high school as a summer job. He graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a degree in Psychology, so he naturally went into commercial finance to use what he had learned.

Over the years, Skip has held various positions at a multitude of leasing companies (big and small) including Credit Analyst, Marketing Director, VP Sales and SVP of Operations where he oversaw Credit, Collections, Customer Service, and Funding of a large publicly traded leasing company. Skip has been actively involved with UAEL (United Association of Equipment Leasing) for most of his professional career and recently finished a two year commitment as a Director on the Board of Directors for UAEL. He currently serves as the Regional Co-Chair for the local UAEL group.

He enjoys his daily “board meetings” with Rick and Dan over his favorite drink, a dry cappuccino. Skip is married to his wonderfully supportive wife Sheri (who blessed his wishes to quit his W-2 job and start 5280 Financial). They have three children and three dogs (yep…three dogs). In his “off time,” Skip enjoys camping, skiing (while his kids snowboard), making an espresso, and generally anything that can get him in the mountains…..making an espresso while camping or skiing is still on the “to do” list.