Dr. Mark Pleško was born in 1961 and earned his PhD in nuclear and elementary particle physics at the age of 25.In 1996, he completed an MBA with distinction at IEDC Bled. He is the founder and CEO of Cosylab, which has grown into an international company with more than 250 employees and is the global leader in its niche of control systems for nuclear accelerators and proton cancer therapy. The company has subsidiaries in Japan, the United States, China, Sweden, and Switzerland. Among its one hundred clients across five continents are some of the world’s largest national laboratories. Cosylab participates in major international projects such as CERN, the ITER fusion project, SLAC at Stanford, Harvard University Hospital, the PSI Institute of ETH Zurich, and others.

He has served as Chairman of the Board of the Italian company KYMA srl and as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Slovenian companies Fotona and Evolve. Currently, he is the CEO of Cosylab and Tehnodrom, a board member of the Swiss company AAT, Chairman of the Board of the Jožef Stefan Institute, a board member of the Society for the Promotion of Technical Culture (ZOTKS), Vice President of the Council for Science and Technology (SZT) of the Republic of Slovenia, a member of the Council for Higher Education of the Republic of Slovenia, and a member of the Program Councils of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science and the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Ljubljana.

Dr. Mark Pleško se je rodil leta 1961 in postal doktor fizike jedra in osnovnih delcev pri 25 letih. Leta 1996 je zaključil študij MBA na IEDC Bled z odliko. Je ustanovitelj in direktor družbe Cosylab, ki je zraslo v mednarodno podjetje z več kot 250 zaposlenimi in je vodilno na svetu v svoji niši krmilnih sistemov za jedrske pospeševalnike ter za protonsko terapijo raka. Podjetje ima podružnice na Japonskem, v ZDA, Kitajski, Švedski in Švici. Med stotimi strankami na petih celinah sodijo največji svetovni nacionalni laboratoriji. Sodelujejo v mednarodnih projektih, kot so CERN, mednarodni fuzijski projekt ITER, SLAC na Stanfordu, Univerzitetna klinika Harvarda, inštitut PSI od švicarskega ETH in drugi.

Bil je predsednik uprave italijanske družbe KYMA srl in predsednik nadzornega sveta slovenskih podjetij Fotona in Evolve. Trenutno je direktor družb Cosylab in Tehnodrom, član upravnega odbora švicarske družbe AAT, predsednik upravnega odbora Inštituta Jožef Stefan, član upravnega odbora Društva za promocijo in tehnično kulturo (ZOTKS), podpredsednik Sveta za Znanost in Tehnologijo (SZT) Republike Slovenije, član Sveta Republike Slovenije za visoko šolstvo ter član Programskih svetov Fakultete za računalništvo in informatiko ter Fakultete za matematiko in fiziko Univerze v Ljubljani.