Belinda Guadarrama

Belinda Guadarrama founded GC Micro in 1986. GC Micro is a leading supplier of computer hardware and software products and integrated systems to the defense and aerospace industries, state and federal agencies and Fortune 1000 companies. GC Micro is rated one of the 500 largest Hispanic owned companies by Hispanic Business Magazine. Ms. Guadarrama served as Chair of the NASA Minority Business Resource Advisory Committee. The committee worked with NASA and its contractors to ensure the participation of minority-owned firms in the future of space exploration. Ms. Guadarrama also served as a member of the U.S. Department of Energy Task Force on Small Business Development. She is a former Board member of the Advisory Committee for the Bank of Marin in California.

GC Micro has been recognized by its customers for outstanding customer service. The company received the Boeing Performance Excellence Award for the last 7 years, Woman-Owned Contractor of the Year from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Just-In-Time Supplier of the Year by Sandia National Laboratory, Administrator’s Award for Excellence from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), World Class Team Award by Northrop Grumman, Technology Vendor of the Year by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Customer Partnership Award from Sandia National Laboratory.

In 2014, under Guadarrama’s leadership, GC Micro was awarded a major ten-year federal contract, Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V (SEWP V) by NASA.

In 2015 and 2016, the North Bay Business Journal voted GC Micro one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay.