" SHANTANU NARAYEN "
OCCUPATION : CEO, Adobe.
ALMA MATER : Osmania University.
University of California, Barkeley,
Bowling Green State University
BORN IN : Hyderabad, Telangana
NET WORTH : 875,000 DOLLAR.
" Shantanu Narayen who's from Hyderabad heads one of the world's leading software companies, Adobe .Nine Years after joining Adobe, Narayen was appointed as CEO in 2007. Narayen joined Adobe in 1998 as a senior Vice-President of worldwide product research, was later promoted to executive vice president of worldwide products, and appointed to his current post in the age of 41."
Unknown Facts :
1. He started his career at Apple. After, Apple, Narayen served as director of desktop and collaboration products for Silicon Graphics, then co-founded Pictra Inc. a company that pioneered the concept of digital photo sharing over the Internet.
2. One of the world's top paid tech CEOs, he is lauded for his leadership qualities, technology insight and operational proficiency, which helped Adobe expand its product portfolio.
3. His father owned a plastic business. He studied in the local Hyderabad Public School and then went on complete his graduation in electronics from the Osmania University.
4. Narayen holds an electronics engineering degree from Osmania University, MBA from the University of California, Berkeley , and Masters in computer science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio.
5. In 2011, US President Barack Obama appointed him a member of his Management Advisory Board.
6. Narayen is responsible for landing a whole of 350 deals for Adobe. Really big media firms like Viacom, CBS and PBS all play their videos with Adobe Flash player today and all this is thanks to Narayen.
7. Shantanu Narayen promises that Adobe has got a lot more to offer us in the future. There is a software that could recognize the dress of the person in the video, their brand and their colour and then a software that could recognize speech and turn it into text ar all in the offing from Adobe.
8. Born in India to a family of engineers, he followed a well- worn path for his generation , becoming interested in computing at college in India before coming to the US for postgraduate computer science and business degrees.
9. He's a quite person, he leads with his action rather than his words. He's not a guy with huge ego, but he has a lot of pride- says eBay CEO John Donahoe.
10. The brian behind Adobe , the man who runs the company, Shantanu Narayen is much like Adobe itself- quiet, intelligent and everywhere.
11. Shantanu's favourite quote :" if you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go , then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.
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