Burgess at Macromedia
Robert Kenneth Burgess is an Canadian business executive, and the last chairman of Macromedia before it was acquired by Adobe Systems in December 2005.[1][2]
Career[]
Burgess served as CEO of Alias Research from 1992 to 1995. After Alias was merged with Wavefront Technologies, Burgess became the president of the combined Alias|Wavefront company. He later became senior vice president of Silicon Graphics, which had acquired both companies.[3]
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.[3][4]
References[]
- ↑ Board of Directors, Macromedia. Archived 2005-09-07.
- ↑ Adobe Completes Acquisition of Macromedia, Adobe Systems. 2005-12-05. Archived 2005-12-07.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Rob Burgess Named President of Macromedia, Macromedia. 1996-08-28. Archived 1999-09-10.
- ↑ How will Stephen Elop fare at Microsoft? by Eric Lai, ComputerWorld. 2008-01-11. Archived 2008-01-15.
External links[]
- Rob Burgess at Macromedia (archived 2003-12-17)
- Robert K. Burgess at Forbes (archived 2010-03-27)
- Robert Kenneth Burgess at Bloomberg (archived 2016-08-05)
- Rob Burgess at the Adobe Wiki
- Rob Burgess at Wikipedia