Shantanu Narayen
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 Shantanu Narayan, February 2008
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| Occupation | CEO, Adobe Systems |
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Shantanu Narayan is the current CEO of Adobe Systems. Prior to this post, he held the role as the President & Chief Operating Officer since 2005.
He started his career at Apple, Inc. He received his MBA from the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley in 1993 and his master's degree in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.
After Apple, Narayen served as director of desktop and collaboration products for Silicon Graphics, then co-founded Pictra Inc., a company that pioneered the concept of digital photo sharing over the Internet.
Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 as a senior Vice-President of worldwide product research, was later promoted to executive vice president of worldwide products, and appointed to his current post in January 2005 at the age of 41.
Narayen holds a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India.[1]
[edit] Promotion to CEO
On November 12, 2007, Adobe Systems announced in a press release that Bruce Chizen would step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer effective December 1, to be replaced by Shantanu Narayen. [2]
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