Roland L. Jones

Roland L. Jones is the CEO/President of Jones & Associates Strategic Consulting, LLC. Located in Lanham, MD. Mr. Jones creates the firm’s strategy and direction. Direct, plan, and implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity. Direct and coordinate the organization’s financial and budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.

Previously Mr. Jones as the Director of the Office of Central Services (OCS). As the Director of OCS, Mr. Jones planed, directed, organized, lead and coordinated the administration of all County central services functions including facility management, land, property and building acquisition and planning site improvements, renovations, new construction, procurement, energy management, the maintenance of County facilities and vehicles, and local County business development.  

Mr. Jones served as the Executive Director of the Minority Business Opportunities Commission/Supplier Development & Diversity Division Prince George’s County Government. In this role, Jones oversaw the Prince George’s County minority business program serving as the key advisor for minority business issues. Jones was responsible for providing leadership, administrative direction, and overall management of the County’s Supplier Development & Diversity Division.   

As the past Director of Procurement & Contract Management for the Maryland Department of Environment, where he served as the Chief Procurement Officer having ultimate departmental responsibility for purchasing and contracting services, he has over 25 years of Procurement & Supply Chain Management experience. Jones has always served as a strong advocate for the inclusion of minority, women, veteran, service-disable veteran, HUBZone, 8(a), and small business enterprises.  He has a proven track record of exponentially increasing dollars spent with historically underutilized businesses at AT&T, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Sprint Nextel Corporation, GTSI, I-NET, Fannie Mae, Corporate Systems Resources, Commerce Funding Corporation, WANG, and Getronics Government Solutions. 

Jones holds a Master of Science in Procurement & Contract Management from the University of Maryland – University College and a Bachelor of Arts in the Administration of Justice from Howard University.  He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. (Gamma Pi chapter) and has held numerous leadership positions within the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), the Maryland/DC Minority Supplier Development Council (MD/DC MSDC), the Institute for Supply Management, the Minority Business & Professional Network, Inc., the United States Pan-Asian American Chamber of Commerce (US PAACC), the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC), the Senior Executive Corporate Advisory Board (SECAB), and the Procurement Corporate Advisory Board (PCAB).   

For his commitment to excellence in advancing the agendas of historically underutilized businesses, Jones has been the recipient of many awards and accolades including “Supplier Diversity Advocate of The Year” (MD/DC MSDC, 2001), “Supplier Diversity Coordinator of the Year” (MD/DC MSDC, 2001), “President’s Award” (MD/DC MSDC, 2005), “America’s Top Diversity Advocates” (DiversityBusiness.com, 2007), “25 Powerful Minority Men In Business” (Minority Enterprise Executive Council, 2003), “2007 Champions of Diversity” (Diversity Plus), “Supplier Diversity Advocate of The Year” (MD/DC MSDC, 2007), “25 Powerful Minority Men In Business” (Minority Enterprise Executive Council, 2007), “Corporate Supplier Diversity Person of The Year” (Minority Enterprise Executive Council, 2007), “50 Powerful US/International Business Executives,” (Minority Enterprise Executive Council, 2012), Maryland/District of Columbia Minority Supplier Development “Leader of the Year” (MD/DC MSDC, 2012), Maryland/District of Columbia Minority Supplier Development “Chairman’s Award” (MD/DC MSDC, 2013), MEA Magazine’s “50 Powerful Us/International Business Executives Award”, South County Economic Development Association’s “Business Development Award” and Women of Prince George’s “Supporting Entrepreneurial Success” Award.