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 * name              = Jon Hirschtick
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 * alma_mater        = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BSME) (MS)
 * occupation        = Engineer, seriel entrepreneur and business executive
 * years_active      = 1986–present
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 * employer          = PTC (software company) (General Manager Onshape and Atlas)
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Jon Hirschtick is an American software engineer, mechanical CAD pioneer , and serial entrepreneur. 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.

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

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.