Leadership Team

Mark Wegner, President and Co-Founder, brings more than 26 years of roll-to-roll engineering and process equipment manufacturing to Northfield Automation Systems. Prior to founding Northfield Automation Systems, Mark served as Process Engineering Manager as well as R&D Engineer for Sheldahl. His extensive background includes broad expertise in roll-to-roll flexible printed circuits, films, foils of all types, sensitive product configurations and highly focused, custom application design. He holds a B.S. in both physics and mathematics from the University of Minnesota.

• Ph.D. in mechanical engineering; 20 years industry experience
• Principal engineer; spearheads concept generation and quoting, mechanical design, electrical design, programming, test and qualification
• In-depth expertise and experience in dynamic systems and control
• Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• B.S. in industrial technology from the University of Wisconsin – Stout
• 24 years industry experience
• Extensive experience in designing single board computers for embedded industrial control applications
• Heavily involved in automation projects throughout entire project cycle: concept, quote, design, build, program, document, test, install and service

• Over 43 years total of PCB and Flex industry experience, with 25 years specializing in factory construction or expansion, and technology transfer with leading OEM companies
• Nine years of successful overseas assignments in Asia and Eastern Europe
• Formally served as ESI’s Commercial Manager of laser drill product line, then Director of Product Marketing focused on the flexible circuit industry for laser drilling products
• Based in Santa Clarita, CA