James T. George founded MSTI in 1990 after serving for 27 years as an active-duty Army officer. Retiring as a Colonel, he served in a variety of infantry and comptroller positions both overseas and in the United States, including two tours in Vietnam and tours in Korea and Germany. He concurrently served as a member of the board of directors of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) while serving as comptroller of Fort Devens, MA and while at the Pentagon. He retired from the Army in 1985 as Comptroller of the Army Military Personnel Center.

Mr. George established MSTI as a government and professional services company in 1990. Its focus is information technology solutions and management solutions with a concentration in program management support services. The company has grown from one person to its present strength of approximately one hundred employees. MSTI is ISO 9001:2015 registered for quality management and is also ISO 20000 registered in information technology service management. The company is service-disabled veteran-owned and Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) SDVOSB verified.

Mr. George chairs the MSTI board of directors as well as the RMOA Business Institute board which provides entrepreneurial training to veterans and other aspiring business owners. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Hampton University, where its business school was named in his honor in 2019.

Mr. George is a past president of the RMOA Business Association (RBA), an association of former military personnel and other entrepreneurs who have established businesses or are top decision-makers in their companies. Its focus is networking and entrepreneurial training.

His associations include The ROCK’s, RMOA Business Association, Northern Virginia Urban League board, Mid-tier Advocacy board, and Psi Alpha Alpha Chapter of Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He also chairs the Finance Committee of Westminster at Lake Ridge residential community.

He earned a BS in Biology from Hampton University, MBA from the University of Arizona, and completed the Advanced Management Program of Pennsylvania State University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Armed Forces Staff College and the U.S. Army War College.

Mr. George and his wife, Juliette (a retired Fairfax County school teacher), have been married for over 50 years and have two children. Their son, Tom George, is a MSTI careerist and their daughter, Tracey George (Teasley), headed her own Public Relations business until she assumed the role of full time mother of two children, Elijah and Caleb.