Background
Mark Spencer was born in 1977 in Alabama, United States.
Mark Spencer was born in 1977 in Alabama, United States.
Mark studied at Auburn University in Alabama, United States.
Mark Spencer founded Digium, Inc., in 1999 as Linux Support Systems while still a computer engineering student at Auburn University. When faced with the high cost of buying a PBX for the company, Spencer simply used his Linux PC and knowledge of C code to develop his own PBX. This was the beginning of the worldwide open source phenomenon known as Asterisk.
As Asterisk gained in popularity, Spencer shifted his business focus from Linux support to supporting Asterisk and opening up the telecom market. Mark renamed the company Digium and transformed the fledgling upstart into the leading open source telecommunication provider in the world today.
As the Chairman and CTO of Digium, Mark Spencer continues to drive the strategic vision and technology direction of the company as well as focus on the development and growth of the Asterisk Community at large.
Spencer is widely regarded as the pioneer of open source telephony and gives frequent keynote addresses to large technology audiences.
Mark Spencer is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer at Digium, Incorporated
Mark Spencer created Asterisk, which is an open source private branch exchange (Private Branch Exchange). A Private Branch Exchange, is a type of phone switch, that allows multiple attached telephones to make calls to one another, and to connect to other telephone services including the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Mark Spencer and his company Digium have more than 50 different awards in its history.
