School of Business

Bio

Mark Wensell, Ph.D., is the Director of the Decision Analytics Weekend Master’s Program and an Instructor in the Information Systems Department at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business. He previously co-founded and led Terazo, an API- and data-focused technology company. Following its acquisition by Zennify, he helped integrate and scale the combined firm’s data, integration, and delivery practices. Earlier, he founded bayMountain (acquired by Peak 10), where he later served as Richmond Vice President/General Manager and then Vice President of Systems & Process Improvement, leading modernization and process-improvement initiatives. His work spans digital transformation, cloud/DevOps, and data-platform engineering, and he has been active in the Richmond technology community, including service as Chair of the Richmond Technology Council. Dr. Wensell holds a B.A. in Mathematics from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Physics from North Carolina State University.