Business
Profile: Maria Beckett, Founder and former CEO of Maricom Systems Inc.
Maria Beckett. PHOTO/Greater Baltimore Committee
Maria Beckett grew an information technology business from her basement up. Fifteen years later she sold it for more than US$40 million.
Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey, Beckett majored in Information Systems Science and graduated from Stockton College, Pomona, NJ. She went on to jobs as a programmer and as database administrator, learning the ropes of business in high-tech companies located within the Baltimore-Washington corridor. By 1996, after five years with a leading spice, herbs and flavoring manufacturer, she decided it was time to start her own IT support business.
Beckett founded Maricom Systems, Inc., an IT firm specializing in data management, software engineering, and business intelligence solutions. But all those services didn’t come at once; then a sole operator with no employees Beckett would grow her customer base and business as she put together the building blocks for an ecosystem.
By 2011, when Beckett sold Maricom for $40 million to CSC, her firm had worked successfully with government, healthcare, and commercial sectors, providing management, maintenance, and support of large data environments. With a staff of more than 200 professionals Maricom provided IT solutions to meet the business and mission goals of customers.
