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in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Carl Bass, Autodesk, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Carl Bass is president and chief executive officer of Autodesk, Inc.  Autodesk products serve the manufacturing, building, infrastructure, and media and entertainment industries.
Formerly he was Autodesk’s chief operating officer, responsible for worldwide sales, marketing, and product development.  Earlier roles included chief strategy officer and executive vice president of emerging business, looking broadly across the entire Autodesk organization at strategy and growth opportunities.

He also served as chief technology officer (CTO) and vice president of the AECAD group, responsible for the design and development of AutoCAD and AEC products.  When Autodesk spun off its Buzzsaw division as a separate start-up, Bass left to be its chairman, CEO and president. He returned to Autodesk when Buzzsaw was acquired by the company.

Bass co-founded Ithaca Software, the developers of HOOPS, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993.
Bass serves on the Board of Directors of Autodesk, McAfee, and iRise and is a member of the Executive Advisory Boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science and FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science & Technology).  He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University.

The event will take place on:
Tuesday, November 2,  20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

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in our series “meet the Industry leaders”, the GarageGeeks and Yossi Vardi invite you to a special garage event, to meet:

Elliot Schrage, Facebook, VP of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy.

Elliot Schrage is the Vice President of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy,
where he is responsible for developing and coordinating key messages about products, corporate business and partnerships.
He also oversees the company’s public policy strategy worldwide.
Elliot joined Facebook from Google, where he was the Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs.
He helped broaden and coordinate the company’s messaging from a focus on product PR to include all aspects of corporate, financial, policy, philanthropic and internal communications.
Prior to Google, Elliot was the Bernard L. Schwarz Senior Fellow in business and foreign policy at the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.
Earlier in his career, Elliot served as the Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for Gap Inc. and an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Columbia Law School.
He has been a contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times. Elliot holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a JD from Harvard Law School.
The event will take place on:
Thursday, October 28th,  20:30 at GarageGeeks HQ, HaPeled 40, Holon

* This is a User Generated Dinner, so, bring some snacks and drinks to share with others.
* GarageGeeks is sponsored by Carmel Ventures and Giza VC

* Tag your photos and videos with GarageGeeks
* Get email notification when photos from the GarageGeeks events and other events you participated go on-line.
Activate your bluetooth at the event & join to http://www.tagsback.com/