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Sheryl and husband Doug Wohlford are business partners at Automation Plus, which designs and manufactures product identification equipment and software.

Each part of a plane has to be identified and marked to be traceable back to its manufacturer, per industry regulations. That’s where Automation Plus comes in. Wohlford said 75% of customers are in the aerospace sector. 

Before an electrical fire wiped out Automation Plus’s machine shop in January 2023, Doug Wohlford had been considering retirement.
(Wichita Business Journal - April 2025)
Sheryl graduated from Wichita State University with a bachelor’s degree in health care and went to work for what was then the Wichita Clinic. 
Koch Industries hired Wohlford in 1989 to support the company’s internal software reporting packages. She was part of the 2003 Women in Business class and a member of the inaugural 40 Under 40 class in 1998. Wohlford was inducted into the 40 Under 40 Hall of Fame in 2015. She served as president of the Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce board of directors in 2003