David Opsahl

David Opsahl is a true veteran of the manufacturing software industry, having begun his career working for companies such as Boeing and Bechtel in their engineering software organizations. He worked for Computervision Corporation (now part of PTC) for twelve years, leaving in 1994 as Regional Direct or of Sales to become the General Manager of Tecnomatix Quality Engineering Inc.(now part of Siemens PLM) where he led a turnaround of the company with new products and profitability. He has worked for a number of software startups in the manufacturing software market such as Aspect Development (now part of i2), Division (now part of PTC), Cardonet (master data management) and was the CEO of Actify, Inc. from 2006 – 2011, where he led the company to record levels of sales and profitability. He remains on the Actify board and one of its significant shareholders. Dave formed a profitable consulting company, Sagemark LLC, which specializes in marketing and business development projects for manufacturing software companies, and was the founder and first Executive Director of the 3DPDF Consortium, an international trade group he founded along with several other industry leaders. Today Dave is the Vice President of Corporate Development for Tech Soft 3D Inc, the international leader in component software for engineering application developers. In his current role he has responsibility for all of Tech Soft 3D’s field operations and business development, comprised of a group of approximately thirty (30) professionals who reside in offices in the US, England, France, and Japan. In addition to his board role at Actify, Dave also serves on the boards of the 3DPDF Consortium and Smartdisk.