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    AUTODESK, INC.    

 

Meeting Type: Annual Meeting

     
       

 

For holders as of:

  April 10, 2012      
       

 

Date: June 07, 2012            Time: 3:00 PM PST

     
       

 

Location:   The Landmark

     
       

          One Market Street,

     
       

          2nd Floor

     
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          San Francisco, CA 94105

 

 

     
           
       

 

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The Board of Directors recommends

you vote FOR the following:

          
  1.   

 

Election of Directors

Nominees

          
               
  1a.    Carl Bass      

NOTE: Such other business as may properly

come before the meeting or any adjournment

thereof.

    
  1b.   

 

Crawford W. Beveridge

          
  1c.   

 

J. Hallam Dawson

          
  1d.   

 

Per-Kristian Halvorsen

          
  1e.   

 

Mary T. McDowell

          
  1f.   

 

Lorrie M. Norrington

          
  1g.   

 

Charles J. Robel

          

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  1h.   

 

Stacy J. Smith

          
  1i.   

 

Steven J. West

          
               
  The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR proposals 2 and 3.           
 

 

2

  

 

Ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as

Autodesk, Inc.’s independent registered public

accounting firm for the fiscal year ending

January 31, 2013.

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Approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation of Autodesk, Inc.’s named executive officers.

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