After completing his masters at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the technical university of Delft in the Netherlands, Mark Vrolijk continued to work for another 2 years at the university as a technical researcher, with the objective to find potential improvements to aerospace related manufacturing processes. He continued his professional career working for ESI, starting in June 2000 as technical support engineer for ESI’s Virtual Manufacturing Portfolio for the regions Benelux, Scandinavia, South Africa and the Middle East. During these years he became specialized in sheet metal forming processes. After around 5 years, he then became responsible for the validation of ESI’s die face design solution, integrated inside the Catia V5 environment, followed by the position of technical product manager for the same. During these 10 years, he travelled all over the globe to understand the customer needs and challenges related to stamping simulations and translated them to product specifications for the developers. Then Mark moved to the product marketing department as product marketing manager for PAM-STAMP, during which years he frequently joined sales on their visits to customers and prospects and did multiple presentations at conferences and wrote various papers, especially in the field of hot forming. After positions as business development manager and strategy manager for ESI’s sheet metal forming solution, he currently is responsible for the product marketing of the entire virtual manufacturing portfolio, consisting of products for stamping, casting, composites and welding and assembly.