Glenside, Pa.-based Ventco Inc. hired Wylie Prescott as vice president of manufacturing/product development. Prescott has more than 40 years of experience in business, operations, sales and marketing in the air-lay non-woven industry including abrasives, machinery, chemicals, textiles, paper and related items sold to the sanitation, food service, retail, industrial, building products, erosion control specialty and world markets.