- Bruce Chizen
Bruce Chizen Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Bruce Chizen ’s customer-focused vision has transformed Adobe into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Since his promotion to CEO in 2000, Chizen has more than doubled Adobe's revenue and turned a company known mainly for its popular design products into one of the most significant forces in the software industry today.
- Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer of Adobe Systems since 2005
- John Warnock
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the University of Utah.
- Ben Forta
Ben Forta is Adobe's Senior Product Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit.
- Charles Geschke
Charles M. "Chuck" Geschke (b. 1939) is best known as the co-founder with John Warnock of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, in 1982. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 11, 1939, Geschke attended Saint Ignatius High School and went on to earn a BA in classics and an MS in mathematics from Xavier University, as well as a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
- Dmitry Sklyarov
Dmitry Sklyarov is a Russian computer programmer known for his 2001 arrest by American law enforcement over software copyright restrictions. He was later released and the charges were dropped.
- Robert Slimbach
Robert Slimbach is a type designer, who has worked at Adobe Systems since 1987. He has won many awards for his digital typeface designs, including the rarely-awarded Charles Peignot Award from the Association Typographique Internationale, and repeated TDC2 awards from the Type Directors Club.
- Carol Twombly
Carol Twombly is an American calligrapher and typeface designer who has designed a number of well known types, including Myriad and Adobe Caslon. She worked as a type designer at Adobe Systems for nine years, during which time she designed, or contributed to the design of many typefaces.
- Ben Willmore
Ben Willmore is the author of several Photoshop books, most notably the Adobe Systems "Photoshop Studio Techniques" series. Books include: Photoshop Studio Techniques, Up to Speed, How to Wow: Photoshop for Photography, Willmore is the founder of Digital Mastery, a Boulder, Colorado-based training and consulting firm that specializes in Photoshop.
- Robert
Robert (Bob) Barton is recognized as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700. He directed a research lab for Burroughs Corporation in La Jolla, CA. He also taught, from 1968-1973, as a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Utah with David C. Evans, Ivan Sutherland and Thomas Stockham.
- Rob Burgess
Rob Burgess was chairman and CEO of Macromedia until it was acquired by Adobe Systems for $3.4 billion in a transaction which closed on December 5, 2005. Under Burgess' tenure, starting in 1996, he led the company's transformation from a CD-ROM based multimedia company to a prominent market position in web authoring and development solutions. While he was chairman and CEO, the vector animation product Flash become a pervasive multimedia platform, …
- Ted Alspach
Ted Alspach is the author of more than 30 books on graphics, publishing and the web. He is best known for his Adobe Illustrator-related books, including "Illustrator for Dummies" and the best-selling "Illustrator Bible" series. Other books he has written include "Photoshop Complete", "Microsoft Bob", "Internet E-mail Quick Tour", "Acrobat Visual Quickstart Guide", and "PageMaker Visual Quickstart Guide".
- Robert Sedgewick
Robert Sedgewick is the author of the celebrated book series Algorithms, published by Addison-Wesley. The series includes: * "Algorithms" (in Pascal) * "Algorithms in C" * "Algorithms in C++" * "Algorithms in Java" Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was about quicksort. In 1997 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- Seetharaman Narayanan
Seetharaman Narayanan (or Seetha Narayanan) is a programmer for Adobe Photoshop. He started working on version 2.5 on September 23, 1991. Because of his work porting version 3.0 to Microsoft Windows, he is thought of as the "Windows Guy" on the Photoshop team. He also was primarily responsible for porting Photoshop 7 to Mac OS X, and he did the early work for multi-threading.
- Martin Newell
Martin Newell is a British-born computer scientist specializing in computer graphics and is perhaps best known as the creator of the Utah teapot. Before emigrating to the USA, he worked at what was then the Computer-Adided Design Centre (CADCentre) in Cambridge, UK, along with his brother Dr. Richard (Dick) Newell (who went on to co-found two of the most important UK graphics software companies - Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) in 1977 and Smallworld in 1987).
- Brian Reid
Brian Keith Reid (born 1949) is a computer scientist most famous for developing the Scribe word processing system, the subject of his 1980 doctoral dissertation, for which he received the Association for Computing Machinery's Grace Murray Hopper Award in 1982. Scribe was a pioneer in the use of descriptive markup. Reid presented a paper describing Scribe in the same conference session in 1981 in which Charles Goldfarb presented GML, the immediate predecessor of SGML.
- Steve Kirsch
Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Steve has been involved with the Internet and high-tech companies for more than 27 years. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Since the early 80s, he has founded three successful technology companies. Prior to Propel, he founded Infoseek Corporation, which was acquired by Disney in November of 1999.
- Pariah Burke
Pariah Burke is an author and specialist on publishing software. A former member of the Adobe team, Pariah served as the Technical Lead for Adobe Illustrator, as well as InDesign, InCopy, PageMaker, and Acrobat, and trained Adobe technical support and expert support teams in these and related applications, technologies, and methodologies. Pariah has made a name for himself in the graphic arts industry.
- Bill Hambrecht
Bill Hambrecht (born 1935) is an American investment banker and chairman of W.R. Hambrecht & Co. which he founded in 1998. He helped persuade Google to use an Internet-based auction for their IPO in 2004, instead of a more traditional method using banks and other financial companies to find buyers. He is credited with popularizing this "open IPO" model, using Dutch auctions to allow anyone, not just investing insiders, to buy stock in an IPO, …
- Peter Saville
Peter Saville (born 1955 in Manchester) is an English graphic designer based in London. Saville attended St Ambrose College. He studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic (later Manchester Metropolitan University) from 1975 to 1978.
- Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe is an interactive media artist. He often works with projector-based interactivity, where a computer-controlled projection onto the floor or ceiling changes in response to people moving across its surface. His first full-body interactive work "Boundary Functions" (1998), premiered at Ars Electronica 1998. In this floor-projected interactive artwork, people walk across a four-meter by four-meter floor.
- Jj Allaire
In 1995 Joseph J. (JJ) Allaire co-founded Allaire Corporation with his brother Jeremy Allaire, creating the web development tool ColdFusion. Allaire was sold to Macromedia in March 2001, where ColdFusion was integrated into the Macromedia MX product line. Macromedia was subsequently acquired by Adobe Systems, which continues to develop and market ColdFusion.
- Will Harvey
Will Harvey (born c. 1967) is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and game programmer who first made his mark in the video game industry when he was just fifteen and still in high school. Harvey is the Founder of IMVU, an instant messaging company, and of There, Inc., an MMOG company. In high school, Harvey was taking a computer programming class. His teacher asked the class if anyone knew anything about assembly language. Though he did not, Harvey raised his hand.
- Alexander Stepanov
Alexander Stepanov is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Systems. Prior to joining Adobe, Alex was Vice President and Chief Scientist at Compaq Computer Corporation where he led the development of the top-level corporate technology roadmap and was also responsible for initiating strategic relationships with some major software partners.
- Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips (born January 1971) is an Australian freelance animator. His recent work, for which he is best known, has consisted of flash animation compositions published on his website Bitey Castle and on the flash portal Newgrounds (there, as of December 2006, his movies have over six million views and he is the third highest-rated artist with a 'Batting Average' of 4.21 out of 5). He is the creator of the Brackenwood series.
- Del Yocam
Delbert W. Yocam (born December 24, 1943) is an American technology executive. Yocam is a former chairman and CEO of Borland, former president, COO & director of Tektronix and a former Apple Computer executive. At Apple, during the 1980s, Yocam ran the Apple II group and later became Apple's first chief operating officer (COO). He is currently a director at Adobe Systems.
- Charles Corfield
Charles "Nick" Corfield is a mathematician, computer programmer, and founder of several startup companies in Silicon Valley, most notably Frame Technology Corp. in 1986, which was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1995. While at Columbia University, Charles wrote the original version of the DTP application FrameMaker, which was the main product of the company he soon co-founded.
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- Chris Schwerzler
Chris Schwerzler Director Chris joined the other founders of the Weather Underground at the University of Michigan, where he received his BSE degree in Computer Engineering.
- Julieanne Kost
Julieanne Kost Graphic Arts Evangelist, Adobe Systems Joining Adobe Systems in 1993, Julieanne currently serves as the Graphic Arts Evangelist, educating graphic designers, photographers, educators, and fine artists. She is a master of both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator and has used them extensively in graphic design, print, and photography as well as cross-media for online and multimedia productions.
- Pavel Cherkashin
More than 8 years of successful professional experience in IT and venture management. Co-founder and partner in several IT-related companies.
- Ryan Stewart
I am passionate about the future of Web Development and how the web can be used by companies in all kinds of industries to connect with their customers and create value. I specialize in the Flash Platform.
- Kevin Goldsmith
I can see through walls and across weather systems.
- Tasha Mulvihill
- Marco Cucinato
- Dan McWeeney
- Vida Amani
Over 20 years of progressive and diversified experience in the computer industry. Solid record of developing and bringing to market leading-edge software and system products. Proven inspirational leader, emphasizing teamwork. Effective in applying business, technical and marketing management abilities in growth and turnaround situations. Experience in desktop, enterprise applications, networking and in all phases of software development life cycle.
- Michael van Riper
The common thread running through my entire career is working with the latest technologies to deliver the best user experiences possible. NOTE: I prefer to directly connect with people that I know personally, but am open to introductions and InMail from anyone.
- Orion Burdick
My name is Orion, which is an old Greek word meaning, "He whose parents were hippies in the 70s".