Edward
L Hamm, Jr. is the president of E. L Hamm and Associates, a management and engineering
consulting firm located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This corporation provides
architectural, engineering, logistics, audio visual and management services
to both national and international clients.
Hamm was born in Virginia
and was one of the first African-Americans to integrate its public schools.
His family also instituted a lawsuit on his behalf to allow white and black
youths to compete in interscholastic sports.
As a youth, he was greatly
influenced by his parents, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President John F. Kennedy
and Jackie Robinson. The ideal that he admired in them was their pursuit of
excellence, and this character trait is deeply ingrained in him.
Hamm graduated from Hampton
University with a bachelor of science degree in electronics. After graduation,
he worked for a large corporation as a supervisor of its manufacturing engineering
department. Next he worked for another corporation as an industrial engineering
consultant. After other assignments, Hamm was hit with the entrepreneurial spirit
and decided to enter business for himself.
Earlier, he had prepared
himself for this new venture by obtaining additional training in computer science,
management and communication systems. Then this entrepreneur gathered around
him a core group of visionaries like himself, but with different skills, and
formed a corporation. In a way, this experience was like mountain climbing,
where a group of skilled and brave mountaineers start up the side of a mountain.
When they reach certain levels and plateaus, they stop and evaluate the next
climb and say to each other, "We can do that", and then proceed to do it.
In addition to being the
chief operating officer of a corporation with employees and offices located
around the world, Hamm is very active in his community. He is on fifteen boards
and commissions ranging from the Hampton University Board of Trustees to the
Governor's Task Force on Science and Technology. Whatever the endeavor, Edward
L Hamm will perform the task excellently.
