Prescott Sherrod is the President/CEO and Owner of PEMCCO, Inc., a minority-owned systems integration, installation, and management services firm.  Mr. Sherrod has over 20 years of systems design, engineering and installation and management experience in the Department of Defense, Port/Maritime, and Transportation/Transit industries. His corporate office is located in Virginia Beach, with remote presence in Norfolk, VA, Arlington, VA, Rochester, NY, Long Island City, NY and West Point, NY.  He is a graduate of Virginia State University with a B.S.E.T., and received his Masters in Engineering Management from The George Washington University.

Mr. Sherrod’s passion for community and minority business interests is evident in his involvement and affiliations on both local and state levels.  He serves as the Immediate Past Chair of the Minority Business Council, a Commissioner of the Virginia Beach Development Authority (VBDA); member of Virginia Beach Public School’s General Advisory Council for Technical and Career Education; Past President of the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), Chairman of the Transportation DBE (Disadvantage Business Enterprise) Advisory Committee (TDAC); Hampton Road Citizen’s Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC), and was appointed to the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Small Business Advisory Board (SBAB), representing the 2nd Congressional District.  Mr. Sherrod and his firm are affiliated with a number of other professional associations related to his company’s professional interests.