WINSTON I. ADAMS, 

B.ChE. (Howard); MBA; 

M.Sc (Finance)*

CHAIRMAN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE CARIBBEAN, (UCC) AND ITS  SUBSIDIARIES, INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES, (IMS)

AND  INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTION, (IMP);

FOUNDER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF THE CARIBBEAN FOUNDATION,

(UCCF), US. INC; AND FOUNDING PARTNER, UCC REAL ESTATE   INVESTMENT LIMITED.

Winston Adams is a consummate business entrepreneur. He is Founder and Executive Chairman of the University College of the Caribbean, UCC and its subsidiaries, IMP and University College of the Caribbean Foundation, UCCF, US. Inc.

 

In 1987, he was awarded the prestigious USAID Scholarship (Latin American & Caribbean, LAC) to study Chemical Engineer at Howard University in the United States. At Howard, he was an active member and officer of Toastmasters International, the Caribbean Student Organization, CSO and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, AICHE.

 

Upon his return to Jamaica, he worked with the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica, Petrojam as a Chemical (Process) Engineer and lectured part-time with the University of Technology, UTECH. 

 

In 1992, he continued to demonstrate further enterprising and organizational skills as he boldly pioneered the establishment of the Institute of Management Sciences, IMS, which in just ten years, had emerged as one of the most successful private higher educational institutions in Jamaica, having also achieved national and international recognition. 

 

Mr. Adams having recognized the importance of a highly trained and qualified work force in Jamaica’s development trust, took the decision to address this need on a national scale as he sought to enhance tertiary educational opportunities for more Jamaicans in both rural and urban areas, by setting up satellite centres throughout the Island.

 

Through his leadership, his Organizations have successfully established major alliances with several reputable local and overseas institutions, such as the Florida International University, Penn State University, University of Florida, Howard University and University of London designed to strengthened and accelerate the process of human resource development and training in Jamaica.  In 1998, he was nominated by the American Biographical Institute, ABI for the Distinguished Leadership Award and selected for inclusion in the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership for outstanding service to human resource development.

 

He created history in 2002 with his successful acquisition of the 27 year old and prestigious Institute of Management and Production, IMP, creating the largest privately held higher education conglomerate in Jamaica with a combined annual student population of approximately 5,000 and an annual operating budget of just under six hundred million dollars (J$600,000,000).

 

Only recently in 2004, he was nominated and honored as a Jamaica Observer Business Leader for his vision and creativity in establishing “Jamaica’s foremost private higher educational institution”. 

 

He is the first and only Business Leader to have been nominated in the Higher Education sector.

 

Mr. Adams is a member of the Kiwanis Club of North St. Andrew and a member of the Education Committee of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, PSOJ.  He enjoys reading, research, exercise, football, movies and traveling. He is married to Geraldine and the couple has two children, Shannon and Trishany.