Who is Paul Beretz?

Paul Beretz, CICE (Certified International Credit Executive), is Managing Director of Pacific Business Solutions, a company he created in 1999. In addition, he is a founding partner of Q2C (Quote to Cash) Solutions. He brings over 30 years of global, corporate experience in finance and management with industries such as telecommunications, semi-conductors, forest products, chemicals, plastics and consumer products among others. His expertise includes analyzing opportunities and providing resolutions in the order-through-collect cycle for manufacturers, distributors and service companies located worldwide.

Paul is a faculty member at St. Mary’s College (CA), instructing working professionals who are in the process of completing either their BA or MA in the program of Leadership and Organizational Studies. In addition, he directs students completing their final project in the MA in Social Justice course.  Paul has taught adult learners at UC Berkeley, Michigan State University, Arizona State University and an executive summer course at Dartmouth College.

He was responsible for developing and teaching a a successful international on line course for the FCIB association, (Finance Credit and International Business)  In 2011, ICTF (International Credit and Trade Finance) association requested Paul instruct on line courses through an affiliation with Thunderbird School of Global Management, a very highly rated management institution. Also, at the request of the California Business Credit Association (CMA), he created and instructs in two online certificate courses, “Financial Statement Analysis” and “Business Credit Principles.”

Mr. Beretz has given over 350 presentations and in-house training programs to Fortune 500 companies, associations and professional groups. He has been an expert witness, written articles for trade publications such as Business Credit and IOFM (Institute of Finance & Management), quoted by news organizations (e.g., Bloomberg), is a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of IOFM's publication, Managing Credit, Receivables & Collections, edits books on financial management and authored a book for the American Management Association on credit management. In 2009, he was asked to contribute an article on "Essentials for Export Success" for QFinance, a 2,000-page book, published by Bloomsbury Press, UK.

In 2007, Paul was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Under Secretary for International Trade of the U.S. Department of Commerce for his contributions to the “Trade Finance Guide,” a reference publication produced by the Commerce Department for U.S. exporters. More than 100,000 copies have been distributed (in print and via online)to the public. Mr. Beretz served as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. for 2008-2009. Paul also received the "Credit Executive Award of 2008" from CMA (the California Business Credit Association) and in 2013 was named "Instructor of the Year"by CMA.

Paul earned his BBA from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from Golden Gate University and the Executive Award at the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management held at Stanford University.