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Tim Werkley is an executive in residence with the Russ Berrie Institute for Professional Sales at William Paterson University. He was previously an adjunct professor at William Paterson in the Marketing and Management Department teaching Marketing Communications, Principles in Marketing and Ethics in Business over a three-year period.
His educational background includes both a B.S. in advertising and maste'rs in business administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University, as well as a degree from the Dale Carnegie Institute.
After employment in various sales and management positions with Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Becton Dickinson, Imco Container and Stone Container, he started his own company, Swan Packaging, Inc. in 1980 as a packaging broker and manufacturer’s representative.
In 1986, he and his wife, Loretta, formed Swan Packaging Fulfillment, a contract packaging and product fulfillment company which relocated to Wayne in 1990 and has grown to employ more than forty people and occupy a 60,000 square foot warehouse facility. His professional memberships include The Direct Marketing Association, Fulfillment Management Association, Direct Mail Club of New York, New Jersey Packaging Executives Club, and membership in the New Jersey Business and Industry Association. In 2005 he transitioned the business to his son Timothy S. Werkley, a graduate of Lafayette College who also holds an M.B.A. from William Paterson.
As a lifelong resident of Wayne, NJ, Tim has been active in both business and community affairs. A fifteen-year member of the Tri-County Chamber of Commerce, he served as its chairman of the board in 1995-96 and later as vice president of finance from 1996-2005.
His community service included a two year term as vice president of finance of St. Joseph Hospital in Wayne and he presently serves as a member of the finance committee of the St. Joseph Health Care System.
His interests include golf as a member of the Glen Ridge Country Club and fishing with family and friends in Pines Lake .
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