Some of you may have seen the interview on Engineering.com with our new CTO, Scott Borduin. If you don’t already know Scott, I recommend reading it to get a sense of who he is as a person.
Today’s post is both to welcome Scott to his new role and to wish our former CTO, Jeff Kowalski, well on his next adventure.
To say that we’ve seen a lot of change at Autodesk over the last year and a half would be an understatement. Since Carl Bass stepped down as CEO and Andrew Anagnost was promoted into the role we’ve seen changes throughout the company. Some of these I’m sure were underway before Andrew took the helm – such as the closing of the Neuchatel office, for instance – but other changes have come about since. Aside from the office closure, the ones that have impacted me the most were the departure of Amar Hanspal and Jeff Kowalski.
Amar’s departure was a shock but not really a surprise: it’s clear now that his next role was going to be as CEO, whether at Autodesk…