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2015 Form 10-K 104
PART III
Certain information required by Part III is omitted from this Annual Report because we intend to file a definitive proxy
statement pursuant to Regulation 14A for our Annual Meeting of Stockholders not later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal
year covered by this Annual Report (the “Proxy Statement”) and certain information included therein is incorporated herein by
reference. Only those sections of the Proxy Statement that specifically address the items set forth herein are incorporated by
reference.
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The information required by this Item is incorporated herein by reference to the sections entitled “Proposal One—
Election of Directors,” “Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance,” and “Corporate Governance” in our
Proxy Statement.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
The following sets forth certain information as of March 18, 2015 regarding our executive officers.
Name Age Position
Carl Bass 57 President and Chief Executive Officer
R. Scott Herren 53 Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jan Becker 62 Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Real Estate
Steve M. Blum 50 Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services
Pascal W. Di Fronzo 50 Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Carl Bass joined Autodesk in September 1993 and has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2006.
Mr. Bass served as Interim Chief Financial Officer from August 2014 to November 2014 and August 2008 to April 2009. From
June 2004 to April 2006, Mr. Bass served as Chief Operating Officer. From February 2002 to June 2004, Mr. Bass served as
Senior Executive Vice President, Design Solutions Group. From August 2001 to February 2002, Mr. Bass served as Executive
Vice President, Emerging Business and Chief Strategy Officer. From June 1999 to July 2001, he served as President and Chief
Executive Officer of Buzzsaw.com, Inc., a spin-off from Autodesk. Mr. Bass has also held other executive positions within
Autodesk. Mr. Bass was a director of McAfee, Inc. from January 2008 until its acquisition by Intel Corporation in February
2011. Mr. Bass has served on the board of directors of E2open, Inc. since July 2011.
R. Scott Herren joined Autodesk in November 2014 and serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Prior to joining Autodesk, Mr. Herren was the Senior Vice President of Finance for Citrix Systems, Inc. from September 2011
to October 2014 where he led the company’s finance, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, real estate, and facilities
teams. From March 2000 to September 2011, Mr. Herren held a variety of leadership positions at Citrix including Vice
President and Managing Director for EMEA and Vice President and General Manager of the Virtualization Systems Group.
Prior to Citrix, Mr. Herren served at FedEx Corporation as Vice President, Financial Planning. Prior to FedEx, he spent 13 years
at International Business Machines Corporation in senior financial positions.
Jan Becker joined Autodesk in September 1992 and has served as Senior Vice President, Human Resources and
Corporate Real Estate since June 2000. Ms. Becker previously served in other capacities in the Human Resources Department
at Autodesk. Prior to joining Autodesk, Ms. Becker held a variety of senior management positions at Sun Microsystems. Prior
to Sun Microsystems, Ms. Becker worked both domestically and internationally at a number of high-tech organizations,
including Activision, Digital Equipment Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Company.
Steven M. Blum joined Autodesk in January 2003 and has served as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Services
since February 2011. From January 2003 to February 2011, he served as Senior Vice President of Americas Sales. Prior to this
position, Blum was Executive Vice President of Sales and Account Management for Parago, Inc. Blum also held positions at
Mentor Graphics, most recently serving as Vice President of America's sales. Before joining Mentor Graphics, he held
engineering and sales positions at NCR Corporation and Advanced Micro Devices.
Pascal W. Di Fronzo joined Autodesk in June 1998 and has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary since March 2007. From March 2006 to March 2007, Mr. Di Fronzo served as Vice President, General Counsel and
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