Carl Bass

Carl Bass is a leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. He was president and CEO of Autodesk from 2006 to 2017. Bass co-founded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993.

Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk, Quirky, and E2open; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University. Bass is a maker and spends his spare time building everything from chairs and tables to boats to, most recently, an electric go-kart.