The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) selected Moraima Gutierrez, as deputy district director to help lead the SBA Connecticut District Office. She joins Catherine Marx, district director, in overseeing SBA programs available to the 360,000 small businesses throughout Connecticut and the supervision of the team that supports more than $300 million in traditional SBA loans annually to Connecticut small-business owners.
Gutierrez joined the SBA in 2009 as an economic development specialist and has served in a variety of roles since her arrival. During the pandemic she assisted Connecticut small-business owners”™ access to more than $14.5 billion in Covid-19 federal relief programs. Throughout 2020 she assisted thousands of small-business owners with the Paycheck Protection Program and Covid Economic Injury Disaster Loans and in 2021, she volunteered on the Restaurant Revitalization Fund team to administer applications.
Prior to the SBA, Gutierrez was a station manager for Telemundo Connecticut/WRDM, the first Spanish language television station in New England. After college she served as the public relations liaison for the Connecticut General Assembly”™s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission.
Gutierrez graduated from Bay Path University with a bachelorӼs degree and the University of Saint Joseph with a masterӪs degree in business management.
