Posted on Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:43 AM
When it became obvious a few years ago that Carl Bass was being prepared as the replacement for Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz, the joke among the press corps was that the company needed to save money by not replacing the monogrammed dinnerware in the executive suite. Replacing one "CB" for another was just the easy thing to do.
While attending the Autodesk World Press Day event last month in San Francisco, I noticed that among the executive-level changes in the company, there was one clear promotion. Chris Bradshaw went from running the Geospatial division (now mostly in the AEC division), to becoming VP for Worldwide Marketing. Like Carl Bass, Bradshaw is a second-timer at Autodesk. Like Bass and Bartz, he has the right initials. The Autodesk board of directors must really like that dinnerware.
--RSN