Carl Bass. Photo credit: Christopher Michel on Flickr, under Creative Commons license

Cloud storage company Box has announced the addition of Carl Bass of Autodesk fame to its board. His appointment comes on the heels of the addition of another Box board member by the name of Bethany Mayer. Both board appointments apparently fall under an agreement made by Box with activist investor Starboard Value LP to add new independent directors to its board. Box has taken to add tech veterans to its board as part of the agreement.

Carl Bass most recently held the positions of president and CEO at engineering and construction software powerhouse Autodesk. Before that, he served as Autodesk’s chief technology officer and chief operations officer. Altogether, Bass spent 24 years at Autodesk. In his career, Bass has co-founded not one but two companies that were acquired by Autodesk. First was Ithaca Software, which Autodesk acquired in 1993, followed by Buzzsaw, which Autodesk acquired in 2001.

Currently, Carl Bass also serves on the boards of other tech companies like Zendesk, Built Robotics, and Planet Labs.