Paul Watts

Business Development Officer, San Francisco Satellite Office, Export-Import Bank of the U.S.

Paul Watts is a Business Development Officer with Export–Import Bank of the United States. Ex-Im Bank, as it’s known, is the U.S. Government agency charged by Congress to provide “credit assistance” to small American businesses exporting goods or services to foreign buyers.

This assistance is provided by way of direct Commercial Credit Risk Insurance to the exporters; and U.S. Government Guarantees to lenders.  Such Guarantees enable lenders to make credit accommodations to both U.S. exporters and foreign buyers with the foreign receivables as collateral.

Mr. Watts, a graduate of the University of California’s Haas School of Business, came to Ex-Im Bank in 1996 after 38 years in the San Francisco Bay Area financial industry.  During that period, he worked for several lending institutions; he was the Founding and Organizing Director of a national bank (San Mateo County National Bank), President & Broker of a local mortgage banking company (WINN Financial Co.), and a Director & Executive Officer of California’s largest mortgage broker association (CAMB).

Mr. Watts is retired from the U.S. Army - having served with the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War (1967).