Randal D. Pinkett, PhD, MBA
Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer
BCT Partners

Randal D. Pinkett, PhD,MBA, the first African-American to receive a Rhodes Scholarship at Rutgers University, has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author, scholar and community servant. He is the co-founder, president and CEO of BCT Partners, a multimillion-dollar management, technology and policy consulting firm based in NJIT’s Enterprise Development Center. Pinkett also is overseeing the renovation of information technology projects for Trump Entertainment Resorts in Atlantic City, NJ as the winner of season four of NBC’s reality television show The Apprentice. He holds five academic degrees, including master’s degrees in electrical engineering and business administration and a PhD in media arts and sciences, all three from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Prior to founding BCT Partners, Pinkett obtained corporate experience at General Electric, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. He also previously launched four socially responsible business ventures: MBS Enterprises, selling compact discs and cassette tapes out of his college dormitory and using the proceeds to fund high school outreach activities; MBS Educational Services & Training, a firm committed to providing training and development for emerging and seasoned professionals; the Inner City Consulting Group, a multidisciplinary consulting firm specializing in the unique needs of inner-city communities; and Access One Corporation, which implemented innovative broadband network and telecommunications solutions to ensure that affordable housing was equipped for the 21st century.

Pinkett has been featured in Black Enterprise and Ebony magazines in their “30 Leaders Under 30” issue, as well as in Parade, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and in segments on Black Entertainment Television and CNN. He is a Leadership New Jersey Fellow, a Next Generation Leadership Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Fellowship. He maintains an active involvement in helping to address issues facing under-served communities, communities of color and the nonprofit organizations that serve them. BCT Partners does considerable work with community-based organizations and he is a member of the Board of Directors for the New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute, the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, the Institute for Innovation in Government Technology, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Community Technology Centers’ Network.

In recognition of his outstanding academic and professional achievements and service to the community, New Jersey Institute of Technology is pleased to confer the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, upon Randal D. Pinkett.