Rob Burgess

Rob Burgess is a Canadian businessman in the computing industry.

Early life and education

Burgess graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1979.[1]

Career

Burgess has worked in key executive posts at Silicon Graphics, and as CEO of Alias Research.[2] From 1997, Rob Burgess was CEO of Macromedia until 2005.[3] He served as Board Chairman from 1998 to 2005, a position he held when the company was acquired by Adobe Systems for $3.4 billion in a transaction which closed on December 5, 2005.[4]

Under Burgess' tenure, he led the company's transformation from a CD-ROM based multimedia company to a prominent market position in web authoring and development solutions. While he was chairman and CEO, the vector animation product Flash become a pervasive multimedia platform, available on 98% of browsers worldwide.[5]

Rob Burgess currently sits on the Board of Directors of Real Matters Inc.,[6] a Canadian technology company that focuses on real estate data and valuations.

References
  1. "Rob Burgess | DeGroote School of Business". Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  2. "Robert Kenneth Burgess: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  3. Wauters, Robin. "Former Macromedia CEO And Adobe Board Member Rob Burgess Joins Syncapse Board". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
  4. Adobe Acquires Macromedia, The New York Times, 2005.
  5. Flash Browser Adoption: Millward Brown Study, Adobe, March 2008.
  6. "Real Matters - Make an Incredibly Smart Decision". www.realmatters.com. Retrieved 2016-06-29.


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