Shantanu Narayen, president and chief executive officer of Adobe Systems Incorporated, runs one of the world’s largest software brands with products such as Adobe® Photoshop® software, Adobe Acrobat® software and Adobe Flash® Player.
Narayen was named president and CEO of Adobe in December 2007 and has spearheaded two major Adobe acquisitions, the $1.8 billion acquisition of Omniture, Inc. in 2009 and the $3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia in 2005. Before joining Adobe in 1998, Narayen held various senior management positions at Apple Computer Inc. and Silicon Graphics Inc. He was also the co-founder of Pictra, Inc., an early pioneer of digital photo sharing over the Internet.