Chairman, President, and CEO of Adobe Inc.

Shantanu Narayen (born 1963) is an Indian American business executive. He is the chairman, president, and chief executive officer (CEO) of Adobe Inc. Prior to this, he was the president and chief operating officer since 2005.

He born and grew up in Hyderabad, India, the second son of a mother who taught American literature and a father who ran a plastics company. He went to Hyderabad Public School in Hyderabad and earned a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication engineering from University College of Engineering, Osmania University in Hyderabad, an Executive MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in computer science from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Narayen once represented India in sailing at an Asian Regatta.

He started his career at Apple. 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 was promoted to CEO in November 2007 at the age of 45.

In November 2007, Adobe Inc. announced that Bruce Chizen would step down as CEO effective 1 December, to be replaced by Narayen.

In 2011, Barack Obama appointed him as a member of his Management Advisory Board.

As CEO, Narayen led the transformation of the company, moving its creative and digital document software franchises – which include flagship programs such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Acrobat/PDF – from the desktop to the cloud. In addition, during his tenure as CEO Adobe entered the digital experiences category, an expansion which began with the company’s acquisition of Omniture in 2009.

On May 2011, Narayen received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bowling Green State University.

Narayen currently serves as lead independent director on the board of directors for Pfizer and as vice chairman of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum. He previously served on U.S. President Barack Obama’s Management Advisory Board.

In 2018 Narayen was ranked #12 on Fortune’s “Businessperson of the Year” list. He was also named “Global Indian of the Year” in 2018 by the Economic Times of India.

In 2019 he was a recipient of a Padma Shri award.

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