Rob Burgess
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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[1]. 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, available on 98% of browsers worldwide[2]. Prior to joining Macromedia, Burgess worked extensively in the field of high-performance computer graphics, spending years in key executive posts at Silicon Graphics, and as CEO of Alias Research
Burgess graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1979.
Adobe Acquires Macromedia [3]
Flash Browser Adoption: Millward Brown Study Mar. 2008
