PTC Executive Leadership

Neil Barua is the President and Chief Executive Officer of PTC.

Neil’s career spans more than 23 years across global operations, financial, and executive positions. Prior to joining PTC, Neil served as CEO of ServiceMax and transformed the company into a recognized leader in field service management. When PTC completed its acquisition of ServiceMax in January 2023, Neil led PTC’s Service Lifecycle Management business and joined PTC’s executive leadership team. Neil became CEO of PTC on February 14, 2024.

As CEO, Neil focuses on PTC’s global business strategy, customer experience, and company culture.

Previously, Neil served as an operating partner at Silver Lake, a global leader in technology investing. Earlier in his career, Neil was CEO of IPC Systems, a global provider of specialized technology solutions for the financial services community.

Neil resides in the Boston area with his family. He earned his Bachelor of Science from NYU. Neil serves on the board of directors of Streetwise Partners.

Catherine is the Chief Marketing and Sustainability Officer at PTC, responsible for positioning the company for success by driving where PTC plays, who PTC serves, and how PTC wins. In this role, Catherine oversees key strategic functions including corporate strategy, corporate development, marketing, and sustainability.

With over two decades of outstanding executive leadership, Catherine is recognized in the tech industry as a passionate and results-oriented senior leader. Since joining PTC in 2016, she has led the company through several acquisitions that have accelerated PTC’s SaaS journey and uniquely expanded and strengthened PTC’s capabilities, making it easier for industrial companies to achieve their digital transformation goals and set PTC apart from the competition. Catherine is also credited with building a partner ecosystem to help solve PTC’s customers' greatest challenges. In 2022, she launched a formal initiative to identify and help quantify the ways that PTC customers can use PTC products to achieve their own sustainability goals.

Outside of PTC, she’s an active Director and Executive Committee Member of The Massachusetts High Technology Council (MHTC).

Prior to PTC, Catherine successfully held numerous strategy, corporate development, and go-to-market leadership roles.

She has an M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a B.S. in Computer Systems from the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Publications:

• The Approach to Digital Technology: What Leaders Do Differently, PTC, January 2023
• Three Rules to Rescue Your Digital Transformation Strategy, Machine Design, 2022
• Three Pillars of Success for Industrial Digital Transformation, PTC, 2022
• A Digital Thread: Capitalize on Your Data’s Value, MIT Sloan Management Review, 2021
• Executive Leadership Makes (or Breaks) Digital Transformation Success - Here's Why, PTC, 2021
• Bridging Gaps Through Digital Continuity, Capgemini Research Institute, 2020

Recognition:

• Named One of the Top 100 Women in Sustainability in 2023 by Sustainability Magazine
• Featured keynote speaker at the 2023 Economist Impact Sustainability Week event
• Named one of the Most Successful CSO’s in 2021 by C-Level Focus

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Kristian Talvitie is EVP and CFO at PTC, responsible for overseeing worldwide accounting, financial planning and analysis, tax and treasury, investor relations, and information technology functions.

He has held this role since May 2019, but Kristian was previously at PTC from 2008 to 2016 in several roles including Corporate Vice President of Finance, and Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications.

In his time away from PTC he was CFO at SaaS company Sovos and Syncsort.

Kristian earned a M.S. in Management from Boston University and a B.A. in Psychology from Allegheny College.

Lisa is Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at PTC. She is responsible for leading the global People organization.

With nearly 30 years in HR, Lisa brings a wealth of HR leadership experience from the technology, telecommunications, and consulting sectors. She is passionate about advancing the business through strategic HR consulting, organizational effectiveness, and employee engagement.

Lisa joined PTC in June 2020 as Senior Vice President, Global HR Business Partners. Throughout her time at PTC, she has focused on HR transformation and building a strategic HR business partner function to support the changing needs of the business. An influential voice in the business, Lisa serves as a trusted advisor and thoughtful partner in the organization using her keen ability to align organization structure, leadership, and talent to the business strategy.

Prior to PTC, Lisa was a global HR leader at Cisco Systems, where she led HR for the Customer Experience Global Delivery Centers, an organization of more than 7,000 engineers. Lisa has also held HR leadership roles at Motorola, G+J Publishing, and Text100 PR.

Kevin Wrenn is Chief Product Officer, Digital Thread Group, responsible for overseeing all aspects of Digital Thread product strategy, development, and operations. He is focused on growing and enhancing PTC’s product leadership roles in many fast-changing markets. Under Kevin’s leadership, PTC’s CAD, PLM, IoT, and AR products have consistently been ranked a leader by industry analysts since 2019.

In his nearly 30 years at PTC, Kevin has held many leadership positions in product segments and in global services. As Chief Product Officer, he leads the vision, strategy, and execution for all facets of product development and management, including R&D, cloud services, technical support, and PTC product segment organizations (CAD, PLM, IoT, AR, ALM).

In addition to his role at PTC, Kevin serves on the board for Boston University's College of Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC).

Kevin earned a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Aaron von Staats is EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary for PTC. Aaron manages PTC’s worldwide legal, compliance, and cyber risk management functions. His responsibilities include corporate governance and board of directors matters, SEC reporting and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, customer and partner transactions, intellectual property, technology licensing, litigation, and employment law. Aaron oversees PTC’s compliance programs focused on anti-corruption, export compliance, insider trading, and data privacy. He also oversees the company’s cyber security risk management program, focused on advancing cyber security initiatives and addressing incident response.

Having joined PTC in 1997, Aaron held various positions before being promoted to General Counsel in 2003. Prior to PTC, he was an attorney at Palmer & Dodge LLP in Boston and a Judicial Law Clerk for the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Aaron is a member of the Association of Corporate Counsel and serves on the Advisory Board of Cancer Support Community of Boston. He previously served as a board member for City Year Boston and for the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston.

Aaron earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.

David Katzman is the General Manager of the Velocity Group at PTC – which is comprised of Onshape, Arena and the PTC Education team. David is responsible for driving operational excellence, while overseeing the day-to-day execution of the Velocity Group’s business strategy.

Prior to his current position, David served as the SVP and general manager for Onshape, where he oversaw the design and implementation of business strategy and policies – from customer success and sales to partnerships and business development. Onshape was acquired by PTC for $470 million in October 2019. Previously, David was a senior consultant at Deloitte Consulting.

He serves on the board of the PTC Foundation and holds advisory roles in several tech companies.

David received an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering and economics from Tufts University.

Publications:

• Valuable customer experience lessons from my snowblower repairman, Boston Business Journal,, 2021
• Shaping the customer experiences of the future, Fortune, October 2020

Recognition:

• Preparing For The Future Of Work: Dave Katzman Of Onshape On The Top Five Trends To Watch In The Future Of Work, Interview with Authority Magazine, October 2021
• Conversations with Dave Katzman, Interview with CXOTalk, June 2020

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Ziv Belfer is the EVP and Head of Research and Development (R&D) at PTC, responsible for the company’s innovation strategy, product development, and technological advancements.

Having held this role since November 2024, Ziv’s career at PTC spans over three decades, beginning as a Pro/Engineer (Creo) Geometry Developer. Over the years, he has led critical teams responsible for PTC’s flagship technologies, including CAD, PLM, Creo Illustrate, Creo View, MathCAD, ALM, and Creo Schematics. Under his leadership, PTC has had an impressive track record of delivering high-quality product releases.

Outside of PTC, Ziv is an active member of YPO’s Israeli chapter.

Ziv earned an MSc in CAD/CAM from the prestigious Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Amit Jain is the Chief Strategy Officer at PTC, responsible for overseeing corporate strategy, corporate development/M&A, and technical research. In this role, he is focused on shaping the strategic direction and growth initiatives of the company.

Before stepping into his current role, Amit led portfolio management for the products organization at PTC. His journey with PTC began through the acquisition of ServiceMax, where he served as Chief Product Officer, managing product management, engineering, product marketing, and partnerships.

Prior to his nine years at ServiceMax, Amit held various product roles at notable technology companies, including Zuora, Google, and Expedia.

Amit earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.

Robert Dahdah is Executive Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer at PTC, where he is responsible for overseeing global sales and customer success for the company's Digital Thread group, as well as the overall execution of its vertical-focused go-to-market strategy.

Robert brings over 30 years of experience leading large, global sales and go-to-market organizations at public companies, including Microsoft, Nuance Communications, and ADP. His expertise spans managing the full sales cycle, accelerating pipeline growth across vertical markets, expanding and cross-selling into key accounts, and developing scalable models for expansion into emerging geographies.

Robert holds a B.S. from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.