Mark Pleško is a world renown expert for nuclear accelerators and particle cancer therapy. He is the founder and managing director of Cosylab, a spin-off, which he has grown to 200+ employees, present on 3 continents. Mark Pleško is President of the Engineering Academy of Slovenia, President of the Management Board of the Jožef Stefan Institute, Vice-President of the Science and Technology Council of the Government of Slovenia, member of Programme Councils at Faculties for Mathematics & Physics and Computer Science at the University of Ljubljana, and member of the EU-Japan Business Round Table. He is an angel investor in 15+ startups. He received the Award of the European Physics Society 2001, was nominated for Slovenian Entrepreneur of 2014, received the Award of the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce for exceptional business and entrepreneurial achievements 2018 and received the Alumni of the Year 2018 Award of IEDC. BSc, MSc and PhD in elementary particle physics at University of Ljubljana in 1983, 1985 and 1987, respectively; received an MBA at IEDC Bled in 1996.
