Board President

Borja Enriquez is the Senior Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Guam. A former Dean of the School of Business and Public Administration, corporate planning and development manager, and management consultant, Borja Enriquez established her first business at the age of 19. She secured over $1 million in technical assistance grants from the US Dept. of Commerce Economic Development Administration to establish the UOG Pacific Center for Economic Initiatives, the Defense Logistics Agency to establish the Guam Procurement Technical Assistance Center, the US Small Business Administration to establish the new Guam Veterans Business Outreach Center, and the Department of the Interior Office of Insular Affairs to launch the “Buy Local Guam” marketing educational campaign.

Borja Enriquez is founding Vice President of the Guam Women’s Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Vice President of Guampedia Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors, and Director of Foundations for the Rotary Club of Tumon Bay Board of Directors, and serves on the Pacific Islands Small Business Development Center Advisory Board, Guam-Micronesia Mission Education Board, Guam Visitors Bureau’s Administrative and Legislative Affairs Committee, and Guam Procurement Advisory Council. She holds professional memberships with International Economic Development Council, US Women’s Chamber of Commerce, and the California Association of Local Economic Developers. She has served on the Junior Achievement Board of Directors, the Guam Chamber of Commerce Small Business Focus and Development Committee, and founding Vice President of Guam Marketing Association.

Borja Enriquez was awarded the US SBA 2013 Women in Business Champion of the Year, the 2012 UOG Administrator of the Award, 2011 GCC Alumna of the Year Award, and Academy of Economics and Economic Education Distinguished Research Award.  She earned a DBA degree in International Business-Marketing from USIU (Alliant International University), a MBA degree from University of Guam, a BS in Management and Associates degree in Computer Studies from University of Maryland, and certificate from the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education.  She is married to Noel Enriquez, and together they have three children.