Prof.Mark Werwath
Prof. Mark Werwath is a clinical associate professor and Co-Director of Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Northwestern University
Mark is also the director of the Masters in Engineering Management program at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering.
Mark Werwath is also a certified project management professional (PMP), has been an engineering project manager for 15 years, managing complex system (software) and product development, IT, and manufacturing and radio network system implementation projects in four continents. He currently operates, Werwath Portoflio Group, a consulting business in the portfolio management space. Prior to this role, he founded NMOVE.com, a web-based portal for project planning, project management, and resource recruiting in the software development space from 2007 to 2009. In 2000, he founded the project management consulting firm Prolima, which operated until 2003. He has managed a large number of new product development projects in the aerospace business and the telecom industry. Mark has also advised numerous start-ups, including Energy Vault, FEW Spirits, Equityhub, and Highland Solutions..
He had previously led (from 2005 through 2012) product strategy as executive director at WMS gaming, a medium sized gaming equipment company based in Chicago.
Werwath has a BSME degree from the University of Illinois (1981), a master's in Engineering Management degree from Northwestern University (1987), and has completed his PhD at Benedictine University in Organizational Development (2003)