Alvin “Al” Sheriff General Manager, Nethix, LLC, has extensive and wide-ranging business acumen, experience, and training.  Al has over 15 years of experience in the areas of telecommunications and aviation.  He has brokered over $15 million in commerce.  Al held several key management positions with Verizon Communications, a Fortune 100 company. This experience along with other well established and diversified professional endeavors has cemented his expertise in New Ventures/Launches, Business Development, Sales and Marketing, and Multi-Site Management in both domestic and international environments.  Al has been the recipient of several awards such as the Minority Business Recognition Award and the Opportunity Funding Corporation Business (OFC) Competition Award.

 Al is actively involved in numerous community service organizations. He has served on the Boards of ZCD Foundation, and D.R.U.M. (Development Roundtable for Upward Mobility, Inc) Foundation. Al received his Undergraduate degree in Aerospace Studies with minors in Psychology, Humanities, and Air Traffic Control from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.  He further holds a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Information Technologies from Morgan State University.  Additionally, Al has a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and a Six Sigma Greenbelt Certificate from Villanova University.