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Succession Plan
Announces plan to step down as CEO once a successor is identified.
Cloud Pivot
Leads the high-stakes transition to the Creative Cloud subscription model.
Appointed CEO
Takes over as Chief Executive, inheriting a $3B boxed-software business.
Joins Adobe
Enters the company as VP and General Manager of engineering technology.
Apple Career
Narayen begins a decade-long stint in product development at Apple.
Shantanu Narayen, the architect of Adobe’s pivot to the cloud, has announced he will step down as CEO after nearly two decades. Under his leadership, the company grew revenue from $3 billion to over $23 billion, transitioning from boxed software to a dominant SaaS platform.