September 25th, 2006
Do you know Bruce Chizen?
Job: CEO of Adobe Systems since 2000. Adobe makes popular software such as Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash and Premiere.
Adobe’s 2005 revenue: $2 billion.
Other career highlights: Sales positions at Mattel, Microsoft and Claris. Joined Adobe in 1994, in sales.
Home life: Married with two kids, 18 and 15.
Born in: Brooklyn, N.Y.
First salary: $1 a week at his father’s appliance store, rising to $10 weekly.
Current salary: $2 million in 2006.
Outside activities: Serves on the boards of Synopsys and the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, Calif.
Photo focus: Runs a company synonymous with photography, for its Photoshop software. Owns the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT camera and is a light Photoshop user. Chizen says he likes to retouch family photos and blur backgrounds.
The one Adobe software he’d want to take to a desert island: Photoshop. "I would never get bored using all the creative tools."
The Adobe product his kids couldn’t live without: Video-editing program Premiere. "They love expressing themselves in a world in which video is becoming more common."
For more about him read it here.
