Honorary Degree Recipient

Timothy Adams

President and CEO, Systems Application & Technologies, Inc.

Timothy J. Adams is president and CEO of Systems Application & Technologies, Inc. (SA-TECH), a company he founded in 1989. SA-TECH is a progressive and steadily growing professional services firm with origins in the high technology and technical support areas of the defense industry. Adams started SA-TECH with only a few small defense contracts and has since grown it to a multi-million dollar diversified company with employees around the country.

Adams is a former chair of the Bowie State University Foundation Board, which provides student scholarships. Under his leadership, the foundation increased the value of its endowment to more than $6,000,000.

SA-TECH has received numerous honors, including being named one of the Top 100 Privately Held Companies in the U.S. by the Washington Business Journal, one of the Top 500 Diversity Owned and Privately-held Businesses in the U.S. by Diversity Business.com, one of Black Enterprise’s Top 100 Industrial/Services Black Businesses in the Nation, and one of Maryland’s Top 50 Diversity Owned Businesses. The company was also named the Baltimore Washington Corridor Chamber’s Large Business of the Year for 2010 and received the Prince George’s Black Chamber of Commerce Exemplary Business Recognition Award.

Adams was recognized as one of the Top 100 African American Leaders in America by the United States Black Chamber of Commerce, one of Maryland’s Most Admired CEOs by the Daily Record, and one of Maryland’s 25 CEOs You Need To Know. In addition, Adams is a Maryland’s Democratic Party Distinguished Leadership Award recipient. He was inducted into the Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Hall of Fame for the Mid-Atlantic Region and was selected as one of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce’s Hall of Fame inductees for 2013.