Robert Sherrill is a highly recognized and award-winning entrepreneur and President & CEO of Imperial Cleaning Systems (ICS), a commercial cleaning, restoration, and janitorial company based in Nashville, Tennessee. As a nod to the Greater Nashville community, he launched “Imperial Cares” in 2015 to provide jobs and internships to area residents who are displaced, disenfranchised, or enrolled in a post-incarceration community re-entry program.

In addition to his work with ICS, Robert is the founder of Impact Youth Outreach, a non-profit organization working to combat youth crime, CEO of RCS Holdings, a real estate investment and management company, founder of iStudio Nashville, an entrepreneurship co-op and event space, and co-founder of The DREAM Initiative, a transition, and reentry supportive and resource company specializing in reentry educational technology.

Robert has been awarded and recognized as “Stay On The Go’s 40 Under 40”, Nashville’s Black Chamber of Commerce’s “Rising Star”, Power Moves’ “Best in Entrepreneurship 2018”, Varnell Foundation’s 2018 Community Leader of the Year, Nashville Minority Business Center’s 2018 Minority Man of the Year and Nashville Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEO 2018”, is a graduate and member of Cohort 5 of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization’s Catalyst Program, Leadership Nashville’s class of 2023 , and the 2022 NBJ 40 under 40 class.

The recipient of a 2019 gubernatorial pardon by Governor Bill Haslam and a 2021 presidential pardon by President Donald Trump, Robert is leveraging his recent freedoms to empower, educate, and inspire other returning citizens, equity advocates, and criminal justice reform. In 2018, Robert became a best-selling author with the release of his first book, The Journey Back to Now, chronicling his life and telling how losing everything was the catalyst he needed to gain the world. His second book Quid Pro Quo was released in 2022.