Mr. Carl Bass has been Special Advisor at Autodesk, Inc. since February 8, 2017. He held a series of executive positions during his 24 year tenure at Autodesk, including 11 years as Chief Executive Officer. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Buzzsaw.com, Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of LocationLogic LLC. He co-founded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. He has been an Independent Director at Formlabs Inc. since July 13, 2017 and Zoox Inc. since October 2017. He has been a Director of iRise, Inc. since May 2007, Autodesk, Inc. since January 17, 2006, iRise, Inc. since May 2007 and Zendesk, Inc. since February 09, 2016.
He serves as a Director of Humin, Inc., Planet, Autodesk Limited and Quirky. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Impact Venture Partners and Udacity, Inc. He has been a Member of Advisory Board at Panzura, Inc. since December 2, 2013. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design and California College of the Arts. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. Mr. Bass holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Cornell University.