Jon Hirschtick

Jon Hirschtick
Born	Chicago, U.S.
Education	Bachelors and Masters from MIT
Years active	1980–present
Title	Chairman of the Board at Onshape
Spouse(s)	Randy Lyanne Gollub (m. 2011)
Children	A Bunch of Goofballs

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 based CAD program.

Hirschtick holds a Bachelors and Masters degree from MIT, graduating in 1983 and 1986.

Hirschtick was director of engineering at Computervision from 1981-1983, and a manager at the MIT CADLab. He was a player and instructor on the MIT Blackjack Team featured in the movies 21 and Breaking Vegas.

Hirschtick founded the SolidWorks Corporation in 1993 using $1 million he made while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team. Under his leadership, SolidWorks revenue eventually grew to $100 million. When Solidworks was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 1997, Hirschtick continued on as a group executive for the next 14 years. In October 2012, Hirschtick left Solidworks and founded Belmont Technology (later changed to Onshape) with other members of the original SolidWorks team. Hirschtick is currently chairman of the Board at Onshape.

Hirschtick was awarded the CAD Society Leadership Award, 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. 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.

...
Wikipedia