Welcome to Mayson-Dixon Development
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Check our Capability StatementOur team is made up of construction, government and public relations professionals that are true partners in your project from start to finish. Our experience in advocacy helps us to solve challenges of community buy-in and investment. Above all, we take pride in the properties we manage and always think of our tenants like family.
We seek out properties that elevate and improve their communities. After a stringent auditing process, only the best are invited to join the Mayson-Dixon family.
Our mission is to provide a better life for our tenants. From unit upgrades to a maintenance team that’s always on hand, we manage in order to uplift and inspire.
Have an idea for a development? Our knowledge of the real estate market and relationships with municipalities, contractors, and constituents are just what you need to get started.
Owning a construction company has made us especially adept at overseeing the work of other contractors. With management in our hands, you can enjoy the ease of mind of knowing your project will be done right the first time.
Strategic relationships and introductions can provide the capital you need to kickstart any dream. Our network is open to our clients because we only work with those we trust unconditionally.
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Chief Executive Officer
Jayson T. Williams, CEO of Mayson-Dixon Companies, leads a group specializing in community development and public affairs. Transitioning from public service to entrepreneurship, he’s known for roles with national and regional economic development leaders like the U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and County Executive Rushern Baker. Williams, understanding the importance of community involvement, serves on nonprofit boards like LifeBrigde Health Hospitals, the National Aquarium and Downtown Partnership of Baltimore. He has built Mayson-Dixon from a company started in a spare bedroom to one of the premier minority-owned community development firms in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Prior to becoming a small business owner, Jayson had a distinguished career in public service working for the late Maryland State Senate President Emeritus Thomas V. Mike Miller, former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, and former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker, to name a few. Jayson was inspired to become an entrepreneur after his appointment by then-County Executive Baker to serve as the Vice President for Strategic Alliances for the Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation. There, he was a part of the leadership team spearheading transformative community investment, small & minority business growth, the branding campaign for Prince George’s County, and playing a key role in enabling the development of the $1.2 billion MGM National Harbor.
Since its inception, Mayson-Dixon Companies has become one of Bloomberg/Goldman-Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumni, has thrice won the “Bridging the Gap” Achievement Award from the Greater Baltimore Committee for the firm’s work in diversity and inclusion, and was voted as one of Baltimore Business Journal’s Healthiest Employers for their investment in holistic employee health.
An alum of St. Mary's College of Maryland, Jayson has been named one of the Daily Record’s Very Important Professionals (VIP) Successful By 40 award recipients, 40 under 40 by the Baltimore Business Journal, LGBTQ 40 under 40 by Business Enterprise Magazine, LGBT Minority Business of the Year by the Maryland Minority Contractors Association, received the Trailblazer Award from the Reginald F. Lewis African American Heritage Museum and was awarded the Chairman’s Award, a unique honor, by the Asian-American Economic Development Corporation for his work in the Asian American business community.
Passionate about his non-profit work Jayson currently sits on the board of directors of LifeBridge Health’s Levindale Hospital, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, the National Aquarium and the American Red Cross of Central Maryland. In 2021, he was appointed by Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. to the Affordable Housing Workgroup focused on ensuring safe, accessible, and quality housing is available to everyone in the County. Since 2021 Jayson has been a member of the Harkins Builders, Inc. Corporate Board of Directors.
Before starting his businesses, for over a decade, Jayson was an adjunct professor in the “Semester in Washington” program at the George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, from which he also graduated in 2002. Many of his former students have gone on to distinguished careers in public service and business.
President
Matt Newcomer is the co-founder, with Jayson Williams, of The Mayson-Dixon Companies. An expert in financial planning and analysis, Matt utilizes his number-crunching skills for the company’s real estate ventures to analyze properties and organizational skills to help keep all the trains running on time within a growing and evolving organization.
Prior to MD Strategic Consulting, Matt spent 10 years in corporate banking with Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America, building his critical thinking; credit underwriting; risk analysis; and financial analysis, modeling, and projection skills. Some of Matt’s former clients include major nonprofit institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, Goucher College, the National Aquarium, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Anne Arundel Medical Center, United Way Worldwide, and New Psalmist Baptist Church.
Matt is a proud graduate of St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a minor in Spanish Language and Culture. He also graduated cum laude with a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Baltimore and is a 2018 graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program.
Active in the community, Matt currently serves on the Finance Committee for the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) and as the Treasurer for the Charles Village Community Benefits District in Baltimore City.
Office Manager
Vernita Humphreys is the Director of Finance and the Executive Assistant to the President & CEO. With over 35 years of payroll experience, she is responsible for and is the foundation of MD Strategic Consulting’s accounting, budgeting, and financial management.
Prior to joining MD Strategic Consulting, Vernita spent nine years taking care of Maryland’s finest at the Maryland State Police Department. She dedicated her public service to fleet management for the entire State of Maryland. This included title & registration, vehicle maintenance & reporting, operational efficiency, and budget management.
Vernita’s payroll background has given her a common-sense approach to financial management, in addition to being well poised to lead the financial functions of a growing small business. As Payroll Supervisor for General Elevator Company, Inc. and Payroll Clerk for Cherry Hill Construction, she compiled and processed payroll information for over 900 employees, including auditing information; identifying and resolving discrepancies; compliance; determining payroll liabilities, and overseeing federal and state income and social security tax information, 401k transfer, wage assignments and garnishments.
After only two days of retirement from the State of Maryland, Vernita accepted the call to join Mayson-Dixon Companies. She currently resides in Baltimore County, Maryland and enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
Director of Special Projects, Property Manager
Dan Newcomer joins the MD Strategic team after semi-retiring from his 42-year career in the automotive industry, where he worked for new car dealerships in Maryland and Pennsylvania in their fixed operations departments. Dan has had many roles and titles over the years such as Parts Manager, Parts Director, Service Manager, Service Director, Parts and Service Director, Regional Manager of Fixed Operations, and National Advisor for the 10-person National Advisory Board for Kia Motors of America and brings a great wealth of experience to his new role as Director of Special Projects.
Dan studied and played football at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, VA. He enjoys many indoor and outdoor sports and has a passion for playing golf and spending as much time as he can with his wife, Nancy, their children, and RJ, their grandson.