Carl Bass, Former Autodesk CEO, Joins Zoox Board of Directors

Robotics company Zoox, Inc. announced today the appointment of Carl Bass as an independent director of the company.

Bass retired as president and chief executive officer of Autodesk earlier this year, having taken the company from a market cap of $2 billion in 2006 to $18 billion during his tenure. Prior to Autodesk, Bass cofounded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Zendesk Inc., Planet, and Autodesk. He is also on the boards of trustees of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts, as well as on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

“Carl is an accomplished business leader and entrepreneur with a creative soul,” said Tim Kentley-Klay, Zoox cofounder, chief executive officer,, and co-chairman of the board. “As such, Carl gets Zoox implicitly. We are thrilled to have him join our Board of Directors, where his deep business experience will add material value as we realize our mission to bring autonomous mobility to the world.”