Catherine is EVP and Chief Strategy and Marketing 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.

Catherine is an avid supporter and champion of DE&I initiatives. At PTC, she serves as the executive sponsor for the PTC Lifts Program, which aims to increase the organizational opportunities for PTC’s underrepresented minorities. Outside of PTC she’s an active member of the Board of Directors at The Massachusetts High Tech Council (MHTC) with a focus on their women in leadership initiative.

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:
1. The Approach to Digital Technology: What Leaders Do Differently | PTC, January 2023
2. Three Rules to Rescue Your Digital Transformation Strategy | Machine Design, 2022
3. Three Pillars of Success for Industrial Digital Transformation | PTC, 2022
4. A Digital Thread: Capitalize on Your Data’s Value | MIT Sloan Management Review, 2021
5. Executive Leadership Makes (or Breaks) Digital Transformation Success - Here's Why | PTC, 2021
6. Bridging Gaps Through Digital Continuity | Capgemini Research Institute, 2o20

Recognition:
1. Featured keynote speaker at the 2022 Women in Tech Word Series Conference in Boston, MA
2. Named one of the Most Successful CSO’s in 2021 by C-Level Focus

With over two decades of outstanding executive leadership, Catherine is recognized in the tech industry as a passionate and results-oriented senior leader with a proven track record in strategy, corporate development, and go-to-market roles. In her role, Catherine is responsible for positioning the company for success by driving where PTC plays, ​ who PTC serves, and how PTC wins​. Mergers and acquisitions are a key component to the company’s growth and transformation strategy. It is through acquisitions that PTC has successfully transformed to a recognized leader in providing software solutions that drive digital transformation for industrial companies.

In 2022 Catherine expanded her charter in a newly formed Sustainability Officer role where she’ll be launching a formal initiative to identify and help quantify the ways that PTC customers can use PTC products to achieve their own sustainability goals. All industries are creating ESG oriented roles and practices in response to consumer and governmental pressure. Taking an interest in sustainability and developing skills in this area makes you more valuable to your business. Because it’s a new field and here to stay, the playing field is fairly level, making the opportunity immense for women at all levels and across all job functions. This holds true for career resilience and growth in the tech industry because it is one of the major entities required to drive change.

She is an avid supporter of DE&I initiatives. At PTC she serves as a mentor for employees, is an executive sponsor of PTC’s ERGs, and she champions DE&I within the Boston tech ecosystem as an active board member of the Mass High Tech Council.