WILLIAM W. SHERRILL
Co-Director of the Entrepreneurial Education Program
for the Childrens International Foundation
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
William W. Sherrill is current Chairman of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. He is also an Adjunct Professor of entrepreneurship at the Cullen College of Engineering.
Mr. Sherrill has headed both large and small corporations. He was President of Associates Corporation of North America, a multi-billion dollar international corporation providing financial services. He was a member of Gulf and Western’s Board of Directors. His smaller corporation experience includes Chairman, President and CEO of Dasa Corporation, a multi-million dollar telephonics and electronics company with international offices and distribution. Mr. Sherrill was a co-founder of the Jamaica Corporation, a development, construction and financing group.
The company developed Jamaica Beach and Tiki Island in the Galveston Resort Market plus Commercial Centers and Apartment Complexes in the Houston Market.
For seven years, Mr. Sherrill owned his own financial consulting business, assisting corporations that were structuring acquisitions, mergers and spin-offs.
He has served in both the private and government sectors of finance. He was President of a Commercial Bank, President of a Federal Credit Union and Executive Vice President of a Savings and Loan Association.
In government service, Mr. Sherrill was a Governor of the Federal Reserve System in
Washington D.C., Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Treasurer of the City of Houston.
His government administrative experience includes: Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Houston, Executive Assistant to the Mayor and Port Commissioner of the Port of Houston.
At the age of 15, he enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps and served four years in World War II. He was wounded in action on Iwo Jima. Following his service, he entered the University of Houston where he received his B.B.A. with honors. On graduation, he began post-graduate studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration where he received his MBA, with Distinction in Finance and Manufacturing.
Active in Civic and Fraternal affairs, he served on the O & E Committee of the Boy Scouts of America, The Board of the YMCA, and was a Director and Treasurer of the University of Houston’s Alumni Association. The University honored him with its Distinguished Alumnus Award only five years after graduation.
Mr. Sherrill was appointed by the Secretary of State of the United States to be Commissioner to the United Nations Commission for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He served a three-year term.