PTC Executive Team

Aaron von Staats is corporate vice president, general counsel for PTC. In this position, Mr. von Staats is responsible for worldwide legal matters, including corporate governance, securities compliance, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, technology licensing, litigation, employment, real estate and corporate maintenance.

Experience
Since joining PTC in 1997, Mr. von Staats has held various legal positions, including Vice President -- North American Counsel, Regional Corporate Counsel – North America and Senior Staff Attorney. Prior to joining PTC Mr. von Staats practiced for five years as an associate with the Boston law firm Palmer & Dodge LLP. He began his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Paul J. Liacos, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Aaron C. von Staats
Corporate Vice President, General Counsel

Russell (Russ) Fadel is the president & general manager of ThingWorx™, a PTC business. In his current position, Mr. Fadel is responsible for driving ThingWorx’ ongoing business to help customers in a wide range of industries seeking to leverage the IoT, including telecommunications, utilities, medical devices, energy, agriculture, manufacturing, industrial equipment, and transportation, as well as an emerging partner network of IoT-enabled service providers.

Experience
Prior to its acquisition by PTC, Mr. Fadel was the CEO and co-founder of ThingWorx, a small but highly-innovative creator of an award-winning platform to build and run applications designed to leverage the “Internet of Things” (IoT). Prior to ThingWorx, Russ was the CEO and co-founder of Lighthammer Software Development where he was responsible for helping conceptualize and bring to market the world’s first application composition platform targeted at real time manufacturing. Russ successfully established Lighthammer as the recognized market leader in the manufacturing intelligence and application composition markets. Lighthammer was later acquired by SAP AG, the leader in enterprise business software.

Russell Fadel
President & General Manager, ThingWorx, a PTC business

Michael (Mike) Campbell is Executive Vice President, CAD segment at PTC. In this role, Mr. Campbell has responsibility for the leadership and financial management of PTC's CAD market segment including market analysis, solution definition, solution marketing, and strategic business and customer development activities.

Experience
Mr. Campbell most recently served as the divisional general manager, CAD segment at PTC. He was previously the divisional vice president of product development for the PTC Creo® design and visualization family of products, responsible for overseeing R&D and Product Management activities, including product strategy, requirements definition, software product delivery and quality.

Michael M. Campbell
Executive Vice President, CAD Segment

Marc Diouane is the executive vice president for global services and partners at PTC. In this position he is responsible for PTC’s consulting services and operations, worldwide strategic software, hardware and services partnerships and alliances and PTC University offerings.

Experience
Since joining PTC 16 years ago, Mr. Diouane has held managerial positions in all of the company’s key worldwide regions. He most recently served as Senior Divisional Vice President of international sales, EMEA & APAC. In this role he was responsible for leading the PTC sales organization throughout Europe and Asia. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for leading the EMEA sales and services organization as divisional vice president, EMEA, a position he assumed in 2005.

Marc Diouane
Executive Vice President, Global Services & Partners

Brian Shepherd is executive vice president, Enterprise Segments at PTC. In this role, Mr. Shepherd has responsibility for the cross-segment leadership and financial management of PTC’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Service Lifecycle Management (SLM), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) market segments.

Experience
Prior to assuming the broader cross-segment leadership role, Mr. Shepherd led PTC’s PLM, ALM and SCM market segments with responsibilities including market analysis, solution definition, solution marketing, and strategic business and customer development activities. Mr. Shepherd previously served as executive vice president of product development for PTC. In this role, he was responsible for product management, design, development, testing, and delivery for PTC Windchill® product lifecycle management software and the PTC Creo® design and visualization family of products. Since joining PTC in 1996, Mr. Shepherd has held positions in product management for simulation products and the MCAD product portfolio. Prior to PTC, Mr. Shepherd served for ten years at Nortel Networks as a member of the scientific staff and a manager of product integrity.

Brian Shepherd
Executive Vice President, Enterprise Segments

Rob Gremley is executive vice president, Product Development and Corporate Marketing at PTC. In this role, Mr. Gremley has responsibility for providing leadership and oversight of PTC’s research and development organization and for executing PTC's global brand strategy, marketing campaigns and worldwide marketing operations.

Experience
Prior to his role in global marketing, Mr. Gremley was senior vice president of MCAD sales programs, responsible for developing and implementing sales programs focused on driving Pro/ENGINEER sales in the mid-market. Additionally, Mr. Gremley has served as vice president of global services, responsible for PTC's global services line of business, including consulting and education services.

Rob Gremley
Executive Vice President, Product Development & Corporate Marketing

Anthony (Tony) DiBona is the executive vice president of Global Support at PTC. In his current position, Mr. DiBona is responsible for PTC Global Support. He has been with PTC since 1998 and in that time has served as vice president, global business partner group, and vice president for major account sales.

Experience
Prior to joining PTC, Mr. DiBona served at Data General Corporation where he managed the U.S. Sales organization. Before joining Data General in 1989, he spent eleven years with Unisys Corporation.

Anthony Paul DiBona
Executive Vice President, Global Support

Robert “Bob” Ranaldi is executive vice president of worldwide sales and distribution at PTC. In this role he is responsible for driving PTC’s global direct and indirect sales channel strategies, increasing sales operational efficiencies and accelerating market growth.

Experience
Since joining PTC as a sales representative in 1998, Mr. Ranaldi has held a variety of sales leadership positions, both domestic and international, directly contributing to the company’s growth. Mr. Ranaldi most recently served as divisional vice president for PTC’s North American Commercial Business. He previously served as country manager in Northern Europe as well as vice president for PTC’s SMB business in North America.

Robert D. Ranaldi
Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Distribution

Barry F. Cohen, Ph.D. is the executive vice president of strategy at PTC. In this position, Dr. Cohen is responsible for PTC’s corporate development, packaging and pricing, acquisition strategy, market strategy, and the cross-functional strategy council. Dr. Cohen also leads PTC’s customer support, global education, services partners and the human resources organizations.

Experience
Dr. Cohen joined PTC in January 1998 when PTC acquired Computervision. Prior to the acquisition, he served with Computervision for four years as senior vice president for human development and organizational productivity. Before joining Computervision, Dr. Cohen was the president of Possibilities Inc., an executive consulting firm specializing in organizational change and executive coaching, where he served for thirteen years.

Barry F. Cohen, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Strategy

Jeffrey Glidden is the executive vice president and CFO at PTC. In his current position, Mr. Glidden is responsible for PTC’s worldwide Accounting, Financial Planning and Analysis, Tax and Treasury, Investor Relations, and Information Technology.

Jeffrey D. Glidden
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer