Mark Gafner
Mark Gafner, Chief Strategy Officer
BSc Elec Eng (Dist); BSc Elec Eng (Hon)
Mark has extensive experience in the field of electronic engineering. Mark founded the
electronics and software engineering company, ANSYS, in South Africa in 1987 and was Managing Director of the company until leaving South Africa to live in Australia early in 2003.
Mark was responsible for setting ANSYS’ strategies
and overseeing their implementation. He also managed many leading edge developmentprojects and, as a qualified electronics engineer specialised in analog electronics design. Mark’s
experience gained over 15 years as Managing Director of ANSYS has placed him in good stead for his current role with Digislide.
Mark has been involved with Digislide since 2003, originally as a consultant responsible for management of commercialisation of electronic products, and more recently as Manager of Technical Information Systems.
In his current capacity of Chief Strategy Officer with Digislide, Mark is involved in Contracts
Management, determining technology and product development, commercialisation, and production and distribution strategies, and communicating these to the appropriate departments. Mark is a member of the B2B Commercialisation Strategy Team, and participates in the planning of activities towards these goals and ensures that implementation occurs on time and to budget.