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Guillermo (Bill) Quiroga

Director of Rural and Tribal Entrepreneurship Initiatives

Bio

Bill Quiroga comes to the McGuire Center after 11 years as President and CEO of Native American Botanics, an herbal supplement marketing and manufacturing company he and a partner launched out of the program in 1998. Mr. Quiroga, a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, spent his early school years in Southern and Central California and now calls Tucson his home of almost 40 years.

Mr. Quiroga received his undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and earned an MBA from the University of Arizona with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship. Between the two degrees he accumulated over twenty years of non-profit management experience in various areas including economic and community development, employment and training, the arts, housing, substance abuse prevention, and other human services.

Although Mr. Quiroga can list many unique experiences he is most proud of certain accomplishments and awards including chairing the first Pascua Yaqui Tribal Housing Authority, co-founding the San Ignacio Yaqui Council of Old Pascua Village, named to the Farm Worker Hall of Fame of PPEP, Inc, an Eller College of Management Alumni Achievement Award, named to the McGuire Center Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame for Outstanding Development of a Socially Aware Business, named SBA Southern Arizona Minority Manufacturer of the Year, earning top prize at the McGuire, then Berger BLR Business Plan Competition, received Pima Community College's Small Business Development Center Success Award, and received the Martin Luther King, Jr, Distinguished Leadership Award.

Mr. Quiroga currently serves as Director of the McGuire Center’s Rural and Tribal Entrepreneurship Initiative serving communities of Southern Arizona. He also serves on the boards of the San Ignacio Yaqui Council and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). He and his wife Phyllis have 7 adult children and over a dozen grandchildren. Outside of his work Mr. Quiroga enjoys playing music (guitar, bass, drums), hiking and gardening.

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