Featured Guests
Mark Hindsbo
VP & GM, Ansys
Mark is the General Manager of the Design, Materials, Simulation Process Data Management, and Mission Business Units at Ansys. He has spent over 25 years in the intersection of software development, product design, and business strategy. He has worked across multiple different industries, continents, and sizes of organization.
Mark originally joined Ansys as the Vice President of Marketing in June 2015, and prior to that he was the Sr. Vice President of Customer Success at Parallels. He also spent over 10 years at Microsoft in roles ranging from General Manager in the Server and Tools business group, to Vice President of the Developer business in the US. Prior to this he was at The Boston Consulting Group, co-founded a digital agency, and did scientific computing at Novo Nordisk.
Mark holds a Master of Science from the Technical University of Denmark and has done nuclear research at CERN.
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