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Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk Inc.
Formerly he was Autodesk's chief operating officer responsible for worldwide sales marketing and product development. Autodesk products serve the manufacturing building infrastructure and media and entertainment industries.
Earlier roles included chief strategy officer and executive vice president of emerging business looking broadly across the entire Autodesk organization at strategy and growth opportunities.
He also served as chief technology officer (CTO) and vice president of the AECAD group responsible for the design and development of AutoCAD and AEC products. When Autodesk spun off its Buzzsaw division as a separate start-up Bass left to be its chairman CEO and president. He returned to Autodesk when Buzzsaw was acquired by the company.
Bass co-founded Ithaca Software the developers of HOOPS which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993.
Bass serves on the Board of Directors of Autodesk and iRise. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University. | 