Today’s competitive business landscape drives all organizations to find new paths to efficiency and better performance. Acima builds long-term relationships with our clients based on trust, listening, understanding needs, and delivering innovative solutions. Our experienced executive management team brings the breadth and depth needed to solve our client's toughest challenges.
- Maria Guerrero, Chief Executive Officer – An entrepreneur and leader in the field of business development and operations, Maria has an extensive background in corporate practice development and decision support systems. As a business leader she expanded sales in the U.S. and Latin America for large U.S.-based aviation services companies. Maria served as a senior member of the American Red Cross Biomedical and Disaster Services Divisions where she worked to implement acquisition polices and best practices throughout a vast network of product and service providers to ensure coordinated responses to regional, national and international emergencies. She created Acima in 2012 to provide effective solutions to the business and technical challenges government and industry face today. Ms. Guerrero is a passionate and creative leader in advancing efforts to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. She holds a MBA in International Business from The George Washington University.
- Dr. Michael F. Lembeck, Technical Advisor - A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Lembeck has an extraordinarily broad background in civil, military, and commercial space. He served at the highest level of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). At NASA, he designed advanced spacecraft like the Exploration Transfer Vehicle and was a visionary that helped build the foundation for the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program. He was a principle author of the Vision for Space Exploration to return to the Moon and on to Mars. A seasoned aerospace engineer, his career has been dedicated to developing advanced spacecraft. After teaching at his alma mater and a tour at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he helped design the highly successful Galileo mission to Jupiter, Dr. Lembeck went to work for Max Faget, the designer of the Mercury and Gemini spacecraft, when he created an innovative new commercial space company, Space Industries. Dr. Lembeck was the principle designer of the firm’s Wake Shield spacecraft, a platform that generated an ultra-pure vacuum in low-Earth orbit for space-based epitaxy experiments. Joining another forward-thinking commercial space venture, Orbital Sciences Corporation, he was a key figure in the development of their OrbView series of spacecraft. When at NASA, Dr. Lembeck was a strong promoter of new start-up space firms. One of the first firms he visited was an up and coming new rocket company called SpaceX. Dr. Lembeck was instrumental in developing support within NASA to work with the new firm. Today, SpaceX and many other new commercial space firms are part of the rapid expansion of America’s commercial future in space. NASA acknowledged his leadership by presenting him with the Medal for Exceptional Engineering Achievement. Acima is proud to have Dr. Lembeck aboard to help us build new relationships in government and private industry.
