Adobe Board Directors Edward Barnholt and Robert Burgess to Retire in April
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the appointments of Leeny Oberg and
Dheeraj Pandey to its board of directors, effective Jan. 22, 2019. In
addition, current board directors Edward “Ned” Barnholt and Robert “Rob”
Burgess have each announced their intent to retire and step down from
the Adobe board, effective at the end of their respective terms in
April. Barnholt is the retired chairman, president and CEO of Agilent
Technologies and served as the chair of the Adobe board’s nominating and
governance committee for over a decade. Burgess is the former chairman
and CEO of Macromedia, Inc. Both joined the Adobe board in 2005, a
tenure that includes Adobe’s transformative shift to a cloud-based
subscription model, expansion into new markets, including digital
experiences, and growth of Adobe revenue to more than $9 billion
annually.
“I want to thank Ned and Rob for their leadership and trusted counsel
during a phenomenal period of growth for Adobe. We are a stronger
company today because of their contributions,” said Shantanu Narayen,
chairman, president and CEO, Adobe.
Oberg has served as the CFO of Marriott International since 2016. Prior
to that role, she was the CFO for The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Marriott, where she contributed significantly
to the brand’s performance, growth and organizational effectiveness.
Oberg has held a range of financial leadership positions with Marriott
since first joining the company in 1999, including an assignment in
London as senior vice president, International Project Finance and Asset
Management for Marriott in EMEA. Her experience also includes financial
leadership roles at Sodexo (previously Sodexo Marriott Services), Sallie
Mae, Goldman Sachs and Chase Manhattan Bank. Oberg earned a degree in
Commerce from the University of Virginia, McIntyre School of Business
and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Pandey is the founder, CEO and chairman of Nutanix (Nasdaq:NTNX), a
global leader in enterprise cloud software and hyperconverged
infrastructure solutions. Prior to founding Nutanix, Pandey was the vice
president of engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped
build and lead its product and engineering teams. His technology and
enterprise software experience also includes engineering and leadership
roles at Oracle Corporation, Zambeel, Inc., and Trilogy Software, Inc.
Pandey has been recognized with several prestigious industry awards
including Dell’s Founders 50 and the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year,
Silicon Valley. Pandey holds a degree in Computer Science from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and an M.S. in Computer Science
from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a Graduate Fellow of
Computer Science in the University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. program.
“Leeny and Dheeraj are welcome additions to Adobe’s board. Their
expertise and leadership will be invaluable as Adobe continues to
empower more people to create, and as we broaden our appeal to the
enterprise and reimagine the digital experiences we deliver to
customers,” said Narayen.
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