Carly Turow
Senior Manager, TAP InDev
765-496-0263
Responsibilities:
Carly is the Senior Manager of the TAP Innovation Development (InDev) program for Purdue MEP. She works to provide high-value solutions to increase profitability for Indiana businesses and to improve the productivity of the state and local government.
TAP InDev offers qualified Indiana organizations up to 40 hours of no-cost technical assistance annually from Purdue experts, faculty, and graduate students. This assistance is to provide guidance, analysis, or validation to specific needs within the organization causing issues or needing improvement. As Senior Manager of TAP InDev, Carly qualifies new projects, manages current projects by connecting them with appropriate Purdue University resources, and ensures a pipeline of new clients.
Background:
Carly joined Purdue University in 2014 in the MEP Center. She spent 2016-2018 in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute identifying industry projects and internships for hands-on experiences for the college’s students. From 2018-2025 she was with Purdue cyberTAP as Assistant Director where she managed client relationships, oversaw curriculum development and course delivery, and the overall operations of the corporate education team.
She graduated from Purdue University in 1997 with her B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Her professional career started with i2 Technologies in User Interface Product Management for a sophisticated supply chain planner tool used to optimize the most commonly used ERP systems at the time. She then joined PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Chicago-based Management Consulting Practice for Supply Chain. There, she worked closely with clients to determine the best fit, as well as transition plans for rollouts of new enterprise-wide software packages.
After working as an engineer, Carly attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law and earned her J.D. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Indiana and has been a registered civil law mediator in Indiana. She practiced law for 10 years, primarily assisting corporations with entity formation and litigation defense. In 2014, she jumped at the opportunity to join her alma mater.
Carly lives in Indianapolis with her husband, children, and a cat named Cat that likes to be close, but not too close. She loves Star Wars and the MCU, especially Boba Fett, Thrawn, and Magneto.
Skills & Expertise:
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Mediation
- User Interface Design and Man-Machine Interaction
- Contract Drafting and Negotiation
- Coaching and Development
- Scheduling and Logistics
- Networking
- Cybersecurity Education
- Supply Chain Management Software
- Small Business Entity Formation and Start-Up
- Not-for-Profit Board Governance and Ethics
- Cross-Cultural Communication
