Mark Hindsbo is Vice President and General Manager at Ansys responsible for the Design, Materials, Missions, and SPDM business units. He is on a mission to enable pervasive digital engineering, by making simulation accessible to every engineer and integrating it seamlessly into the digital thread.

Mark originally joined Ansys as the Vice President of Marketing in June 2015. Prior to Ansys he was most recently the Sr. Vice President of Customer Success at Parallels. He 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.

He holds a Master of Science from the Technical University of Denmark and has done nuclear research at CERN. He is also a 6th degree black belt in Shotokan karate, was a Danish national team member and US team champion. Mark resides in Pennsylvania, US with his wife, Kirsten and their three children, Nikolaj, Mikkel and Louise.