College Park, MD, Thursday June 15, 2022, –WETATiCenter 4 Creative Thinking, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, in partnership with and located at Nyumburu Cultural Center, University of Maryland College Park, is very excited to announce that WETATi 2022 virtual Entrepreneurship Convention & the Anne Reese Carswell Scholarship Awards Honorary Chairman and Speaker is Mayor Tim Adams. We are very proud and grateful to report that Mayor Tim Adams has been the Honorary Chair, patron, and speaker for our annual conventions, consecutively for the past six (6) years.
"Mayor Timothy J. Adams is the 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. SA-TECH'sbusiness lines include technical services (engineering, logistics and information technology) and facilities management." Sa-techinc.com. Mayor Adam's company is the largest defense minority black company in America.
"SA-TECH has been honored as one of the Top 100 Privately Held Companies in US as Ranked by Washington Business Journal, one of the Top 500 Diversity Owned and Privately-held Businesses in the US as ranked by Diversity Business.com, one of Black Enterprise's Top 100 Industrial/Services Black Businesses in the Nation, one of Maryland's Top 50 Diversity Owned Businesses, and one of The Gazette's Politics and Business Exceptional 53 Companies in the State of Maryland. The company was 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."-
Sa-techinc.com. He has helped multitudes of people in this community and beyond, including scholarships to students and donations to historically Black Colleges. Mr. Adams is a Corporate Citizen of the people, whose awards and honor spans the world. Mr. Tim Adams is a movement and not a monument and is making impacts as a visionary leader daily.
When Mayor Adams was asked what message he has for this year’s attendees, he said: “It is my pleasure to be the Honorary Chair & speaker for this year’s WETATi Academy annual entrepreneurship convention, The Dureke iDEA Pitch competition, and the WETATi-Anne Reese Scholarship and Awards Gala. WETATi Academyis excelling in educating and empowering students on how to become financially independent at a young age. I want to congratulate all the students who will be competing in our upcoming competition and taking advantage of the resources here at WETATi Academy. Having the courage to take that first step to start an economic empowerment journey through this program is a big deal. I wish I had an organization like WETATi at their age. Thank you to everyone who have already registered and who will be registering for our convention. I hope this event will inspire you as much as it inspires me each year. I look forward to seeing everyone there.”- Mayor Tim Adams, President & CEO of SA-TECH, Inc.
WETATi Academy's annual Entrepreneurship Convention, The Dureke iDEA Pitch competition, Anne Reese Carswell Scholarship and Awards Gala, will be held virtually this year still because of the persistence of COVID-19.
If you have never heard Mr. Adams speak and share his remarkable and inspirational story of how he changed his own narrative and for many others, this is your opportunity to do so.
