SCORE Counseling

Interested in starting up your own small business?
Need some help and guidance with your existing small business?

Check out our SCORE Counseling Program

SCORE, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, is a 13,000-member volunteer association sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Most SCORE volunteers are retired business owners or managers, though some members still work. Volunteers work in or near their home communities to provide management counseling and training to first-time entrepreneurs and current small business owners. They meet with clients at a SCORE chapter office, an SBA office or at a client’s place of business. All individual and team SCORE counseling is free; there may be a nominal charge for training workshops and seminars.

Best of all, SCORE members volunteer because they have enjoyed successful careers in business and want to give something back to their communities. They selflessly give of their time and expertise so that more small businesses will find success. The Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce considers themselves very fortunate to be the host of a SCORE Counseling site. Three counselors meet here on a rotating basis to offer SCORE counseling to those who need it.

If you would like to schedule a SCORE Appointment call the Chamber at 585-394-4400. For more information on SCORE, check out their web site at http://www.scorerochester.org.

A little about our counselors:

Charles Lewis

Education and experience:

  • BSME degree from Purdue University, 1942
  • MSE degree from the University of Michigan
  • PE license from the State of New York, 1949
  • 39 Years at Eastman Kodak
  • Paper Sensitizing and Paper organization
  • Research and development
  • Product engineering
  • Manufacturing facility design team

Areas of Expertise:

  • Cost Control
  • Business Startup
  • Research and development
  • Manufacturing

Arthur Tuppen

Education and experience:

  • Degrees in Electrical Engineering, Syracuse University and Steven Institute of Technology
  • Senior Technical Consultant, Avionic Division for the ITT Corp
  • Communication and Navigation and Identification Laboratories
  • Technical and financial information for Business Development Department

Areas of expertise:

  • Business Start up
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Costs and Budgets

John Bayley

Education and experience:

  • BS in Applied Software Science, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Management of the development and implementation of integrated transportation control centers worldwide
  • Automated material handling and assembly automation systems
  • Operational Qualification of pharmaceutical production facilities
  • Strategic partnerships, joint ventures
  • International Business

Areas of expertise:

  • Business Start up
  • Software Engineering, Computer Use and Applications
  • Quality and Process Improvement
  • Business Development