Herman Valentine, Sr., an iconic Black businessman, founder of Systems Management American Corporation (SMA) and Entrepreneur of the Year in 1984, passed away at the age of 85. He defined himself as the CEO and Founder of SMA which he built by selling an onboard computer system to the U.S. Navy for over a decade. His success and the growth of SMA were symbolic of Black business development fostered by ambition, hard work, opportunity, and access to resources long denied people of his background. SMA was the third-largest Black-owned business in the entire United States for a decade.
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