Dan Krupnick is the former Associate Administrator for International Trade and Counselor to the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. As Associate Administrator (AA), Mr. Krupnick collaborated with an extensive array of government and private industry stakeholders to expand access for small businesses to foreign markets.
The SBA Office of International Trade is a clearinghouse for U.S.-based small businesses to learn about grant opportunities, trade finance, and a center of excellence for small business trade assistance. In his role, Mr. Krupnick was the lead US small business policy representative at several multilateral dialogues, including with the UK, Canada, and Mexico.
Additionally, Mr. Krupnick travelled with the Administrator to Western Africa and India on missions to increase small business market access. These missions highlighted the US government's work to assist our partner governments and showcase America’s best-in-class work to assist small business exporters.
Prior to returning to the SBA, Mr. Krupnick worked with the Connecticut State Treasurer, Shawn T. Wooden, as Chief of Staff and Assistant Treasurer for Policy. While with the State Treasurer's office, he worked on the Responsible Gun Policy, a whole of government response to the gun violence epidemic, as well as the Treasurer’s Corporate Call to Action, a project aimed at engaging more financial services companies to respond to the racial equity divide.
Before his work with the Treasurer, Dan served as the Political Director at Giffords; Courage to fight gun violence and as the Assistant Administrator for Congressional and Legislative Affairs at the SBA.
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