Rob Burgess

Robert Kenneth Burgess is an Canadian business executive, and the last chairman of Macromedia before it was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005.

Career
Burgess served as CEO of from 1992 to 1995. After Alias was merged with, Burgess became the president of the combined Alias|Wavefront company. He later became senior vice president of, which had acquired both companies.

Macromedia
Burgess joined Macromedia on August 28, 1996 and became president on November 1. He was CEO from 1997 to 2005, after which Stephen Elop succeeded him as CEO.