11 Facts About Rob Burgess

Rob Burgess was born on 1957 and is a Canadian executive in the technology industry.

Rob Burgess was the chief executive officer of Macromedia Inc from 1996 to 2005 and chairman from 1997 to 2005.

From 1984 to 1991, Burgess worked in key executive posts at Silicon Graphics, a startup in the then emerging field of 3D computer graphics.

Rob Burgess started as a sales engineer, opened up Silicon Graphics Canada Inc.

In 1991, Rob Burgess returned to Toronto to become CEO of Alias Research Inc.

Rob Burgess became the CEO of Macromedia in 1996 and held this position until 2005.

Rob Burgess served as board chairman from 1997 to 2005, a position he held when the company was acquired by Adobe Systems in a transaction which closed on December 5,2005 for $4 billion, which was the fifth largest software acquisition at the time.

Rob Burgess joined the Adobe board at that time and served until 2019.

Rob Burgess currently sits on the board of directors of NVIDIA, which he joined in 2011.

Rob Burgess grew up in Toronto, Canada and graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1979.

Rob Burgess was awarded the Wayne Fox distinguished alumni award from the DeGroote school of business in 2001, and in 2017 he received an honorary doctorate of laws.