Carl Bass has served as an executive officer, director, founder, and advisor of public and private companies. He spent 24 years as the CEO, among other executive positions, at Autodesk. His technology directorships include Arris, Autodesk, Box, Built Robotics, Bright Machines, Formlabs, Hewlett-Packard, nTopology, Planet Labs, Velo3D, and Zendesk. Bass served as an advisor to the founders of Google during its formation period and cofounded Ithaca Software and Buzzsaw.com (both of which were acquired by Autodesk).