Dr. Hayes Ferguson

Biography

Hayes Ferguson is the Director of Northwestern's Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and a clinical professor at the university's McCormick School of Engineering. He teaches a wide range of entrepreneurship and innovation classes. As a faculty affiliate of the Trienens Institute, he serves on the executive advisory board of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers and is a member of the advisory council for CNBC Disruptor 50. Before joining Farley in 2020, Hayes spent five years at Garage, Northwestern's student startup incubator, as the Entrepreneur in Residence and Associate Director. A founding member of the senior management team at Legacy, he has held leadership roles in several digital media companies. Throughout his career, Hayes has taught journalism at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications. He has experience as a magazine writer, foreign correspondent, and radio show host. Hayes earned his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and has undertaken graduate work as a Rotary Scholar at the University of Perugia in Italy and as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

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