Jon Hirschtick Explained

Jon Hirschtick
Birth Place:Chicago, U.S.
Education:Bachelors and Masters from MIT
Years Active:1987–present
CEO and Cofounder at Onshape

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.

Education

Hirschtick holds a Bachelors and Masters' degree from MIT, graduating in 1986.[1]

Career

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. 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 SystèmesBernard 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, and is an advisor to Magic Leap and MarkForged, Inc.[16]

Notes and References

  1. News: Sharing the excitement of mechanical engineering research . September 23, 2016 . MIT News.
  2. Book: The portable MBA in entrepreneurship case studies. eds. Dan D'Heilly. 1997. Wiley. 047118229X. New York, NY [u.a.]. 84. Bygrave. William D..
  3. News: In Cards or Business, Act on the Advantage. April 1, 2008. Wall Street Journal. Gomes. Lee.
  4. News: Ahead in the cloud. 13 May 2016. Eureka Magazine. Tim Fryer.
  5. Web site: 21 (2008). IMDb.
  6. Web site: Breaking Vegas (2004). IMDb.
  7. News: February 13, 2015 . Hawk Ridge Systems and ATR Soft Create xBOM Tool for SOLIDWORKS . 2024-06-06 . 3dprint.com.
  8. News: Of Card-Counting, Startups, and the Real Story of the MIT Blackjack Team. March 27, 2008. Xconomy. Robert Buderi.
  9. News: Exclusive: SolidWorks vets raise $64 million for Onshape. March 6, 2015. Fortune. Erin Griffith.
  10. Web site: Jon Hirschtick M.S.. Bloomberg.
  11. News: Jon Hirschtick Resigns from DS SolidWorks. October 5, 2011. SolidSmack. Mings. Josh.
  12. News: Litigation Over Noncompete Clauses Is Rising. August 14, 2013. Wall Street Journal. Ruth Simon, AngusS Loten.
  13. News: Belmont Technology is now Onshape, Inc.. January 9, 2014. CIMData.
  14. Web site: CAD Society Announces Its 2015 Award Winners and One Surprise Winner To Be Announced At COFES. April 6, 2015. Cyon Research.
  15. Web site: Leadership Award. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  16. News: Onshape chairman Jon Hirschtick on CAD, 3D printing, and more. March 9, 2015. BetaBoston. Kirsner. Scott.