Jon Hirschtick | |
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 Jon Hirschtick | |
| Born | Chicago, U.S. |
| Education | Bachelors and Masters from MIT |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Title | CEO and Cofounder at Onshape |
| Spouse | Randy Lyanne Gollub (m. 2011) |
Jon Hirschtick is a CAD software developer, founder and former CEO of SolidWorks, a popular solid modeling 3D CAD and CAE system for Microsoft Windows, and Onshape, a cloud platform for product development that includes tools for CAD, data management, collaboration, workflow, analytics, etc.
Hirschtick holds a Bachelors and Masters' degree from MIT, graduating in 1986. [1]
Hirschtick was director of engineering at Computervision from 1991-1993, [2] and a manager at the MIT CADLab. He was a player and instructor on the MIT Blackjack Team [3] [4] featured in the movies 21 and Breaking Vegas. [5] [6]
Hirschtick founded the SolidWorks Corporation in 1993 using $1 million he made while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team. [7] [8] Under his leadership, SolidWorks revenue eventually grew to $600 million. [9] When Solidworks was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 1997, Hirschtick continued on as CEO and then a group executive for the next 14 years. [10] [11] In October 2011, Hirschtick left Solidworks and in 2012 founded Belmont Technology (later changed to Onshape) with other members of the original SolidWorks team. [12] [13] Hirschtick is currently CEO at Onshape. [9] In October 2019 Onshape entered into an agreement to be acquired by PTC.
Hirschtick was awarded the CAD Society Leadership Award, [14] joining Autodesk’s Carl Bass, Dassault Systèmes’ Bernard Charles, and 3D Systems's Ping Fu, and is a recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Leadership Award. [15] He is a member of the Advisory Board at Boston University and Arcbazar, where he was once director, [10] and is an advisor to Magic Leap and MarkForged, Inc. [16]
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