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Jon Hirschtick
Jon Hirschtick
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BSME) (MS)
Occupation(s)	Engineer, seriel entrepreneur and business executive
Years active	1986–present
Employer(s)	PTC (software company) (General Manager Onshape and Atlas)
Website	https://www.ptc.com/en/about/executive-team

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Jon Hirschtick is an American software engineer^[1], mechanical CAD pioneer^[2] , and serial entrepreneur ^[3] . He is the Executive Vice President SaaS at PTC.

Early Life and Education

Hirschtick attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1983, and a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1986.^[4]

While a MIT student Hirschtick was director of engineering at Computervision from 1981-1983^[5], and a manager at the MIT CADLab. During his MIT education and continuing into his professional life, he was a player, and investor ^[6] on the MIT Blackjack Team featured in the movie Breaking Vegas ^[6] and the book Bring Down the House ^[7].

Career

At PTC, Hirschtick is responsible for the management of the Onshape SAAS mechanical CAD design platform business, and Atlas, the core cloud architecture business.

Hirschtick founded Onshape in 2012 with cofounders John McEleney, and Dave Corcoran, the three who had previously cofounded Solidworks. Onshape had raised a total of $150 million from venture capitalists, including North Bridge Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Commonwealth Captial Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz. Onshape was acquired by PTC in October of 2019 for $470 million. Onshape is notable because it delivers a computer-aided design (CAD) software system, over the Internet via a Software as a Service (SAAS) model. Users interact with the system using a web browser or iOS and Android web apps because of the processing and rendering load that takes place on internet-based servers.

Before, he founded Onshape, Hirschtick founded SolidWorks in 1993, a popular solid modeling 3D CAD and CAE system for Microsoft Windows. As CEO he raised $XXX in venture capital. Dassault Systèmes acquired Solidworks in 1997 for $310 Million. He remained with SolidWorks for 18 months after the acquisition as CEO and later Executive Board Member. Leaving the company in 2011.

In 1987, Hirschtick and his MIT classmate, Axel Bichera, founded Premise. Premise created DesignVIew, a two-dimensional conceptual design tool that ran on IBM-compatible PCs. DesignView worked with Microsoft Office. Notably, users could sketch geometry, and assign constraints in Microsoft Excel. The DesignView design would adapt when dimensional relationships were changed in Excel.

Harvard Investments, financed Premise, with Kleiner Perkins, joining in a subsequent round. In 1991, Premise was acquired by Computervision. Hirschtick joined Computervision as part of the acquisition agreement to integrate the Premise’s technology and organization. He departed Computervision in 1993.

Boards of Directors

Liquid Machines
Z Corp

Outside Leadership Activities

Advisory Board at Boston University
Advisory Board Arcbazar
Advisory Board Magic Leap
Advisory Board MarkForged
Chairman, American Technion Society
Member MIT Visiting Committee

Honors and Awards

Hirschtick was awarded the CAD Society Leadership Award, joining Autodesk’s Carl Bass, Dassault Systèmes’ Bernard Charles, and 3D Systems' Ping Fu, and is a recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Leadership Award.

References

^ "Hebrew College CEO Forum". Hebrew College. March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ Stephanie, Neil (October 24, 2019). "The SaaS-ification of PTC". Automation World. PMMI. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
^ Jon Hirschtick (Interviewee) Michael Krigsman (Interviewer) (June 15, 2020). Innovation and the Engineering Design Process with Onshape (video). CXOTalk. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
^ Murphy, Meg (September 23, 2016). "Sharing the excitement of mechanical engineering research". MIT News. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
^ Bygrave, William D.; eds, Dan D'Heilly (1997). The portable MBA in entrepreneurship case studies. New York, NY [u.a.]: Wiley. p. 84. ISBN 047118229X.
^ ^a ^b Jon Hirschtick, Ben Mezrich, Max Rubin (2004). Breaking Vegas (Movie Documentary) (video). the History Channel. ISBN 9780767063784. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
^ Mezrich, Ben (2002). Bringing Down the House : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 257. ISBN 9780743249997.

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[1] "Hebrew College CEO Forum". Hebrew College. March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[2] Stephanie, Neil (October 24, 2019). "The SaaS-ification of PTC". Automation World. PMMI. Retrieved March 4, 2021.

[3] Jon Hirschtick (Interviewee) Michael Krigsman (Interviewer) (June 15, 2020). Innovation and the Engineering Design Process with Onshape (video). CXOTalk. Retrieved February 26, 2021.

[4] Murphy, Meg (September 23, 2016). "Sharing the excitement of mechanical engineering research". MIT News. Retrieved February 27, 2021.

[5] Bygrave, William D.; eds, Dan D'Heilly (1997). The portable MBA in entrepreneurship case studies. New York, NY [u.a.]: Wiley. p. 84. ISBN 047118229X.

[Breaking_Vegas-6] Jon Hirschtick, Ben Mezrich, Max Rubin (2004). Breaking Vegas (Movie Documentary) (video). the History Channel. ISBN 9780767063784. Retrieved February 26, 2021.

[7] Mezrich, Ben (2002). Bringing Down the House : the inside story of six MIT students who took Vegas for millions. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 257. ISBN 9780743249997.

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