Amar Hanspal

Mr. Hanspal served as Chief Executive Officer at Bright Machines, Inc., a software company that focuses on factory automation combining robotics, machine vision and machine learning software, from May 2018 to December 2021. Before that, Mr. Hanspal served as co-CEO at Autodesk from February 2017 to June 2017, where he was instrumental in transitioning the company from an on-premise technology and software licensing model to a SaaS-based products and subscription model. Before that, he held roles at Autodesk that included Chief Product Officer from November 2011 to February 2017, Senior Vice President of Platform Solutions and Emerging Business, and Vice President of Collaboration Solutions. Mr. Hanspal was the Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for RedSpark, Inc., which focused on collaborative product development applications for the discrete manufacturing industry. Mr. Hanspal holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Bombay University and a M.S. in mechanical engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has also completed the executive managerial program at Stanford University.