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AVAILABLE INFORMATION
Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to
reports filed or furnished pursuant to Sections 13(a) and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are
available free of charge on our Investor Relations Web site at www.adobe.com as soon as reasonably practicable after we
electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. The information posted on our Web site is not incorporated
into this report.
EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Adobe’ s executive officers as of January 16, 2009 are as follows:
Name
Age
Positions
Shantanu Narayen ............
45
President and Chief Executive Officer
Mark Garrett ................
51
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
Karen O. Cottle ..............
59
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Kevin Lynch ................
42
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Johnny Loiacono .............
47
Senior Vice President, Creative Solutions Business Unit
Rob Tarkoff .................
40
Senior Vice President, Business Productivity Solutions
Matthew Thompson ..........
50
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations
Richard T. Rowley ...........
52
Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer
Mr. Narayen currently serves as Adobe’ s President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Narayen joined Adobe in January
1998 as Vice President and General Manager of Adobe’ s engineering technology group. In January 1999, he was promoted to
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Products and in March 2001 he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Worldwide
Product Marketing and Development. In January 2005, Mr. Narayen was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer
and in December 2007, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Adobe and joined the Adobe Board of Directors. Prior
to joining Adobe, Mr. Narayen co-founded Pictra Inc., a digital photo sharing software company, in 1996. He was Director of
Desktop and Collaboration products at Silicon Graphics Inc. and held various senior manager positions at Apple Inc. before
founding Pictra. Mr. Narayen is also a director of Metavante Technologies, Inc., a banking and payment technology solutions
provider.
Mr. Garrett joined Adobe in February 2007 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Garrett served
as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Software Group of EMC Corporation, a products, services and
solutions provider for information management and storage, from June 2004 to January 2007, his most recent position since
EMC’ s acquisition of Documentum, Inc., an enterprise content management company, in December 2003. Mr. Garrett first
joined Documentum as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1997, holding that position through October
1999 and then re-joining Documentum as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2002. Mr. Garrett is also a
director of Informatica Corporation, a provider of enterprise data integration software and services.
Ms. Cottle joined Adobe in February 2002 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining
Adobe, Ms. Cottle served as General Counsel for Vitria Technology, Inc., a service-oriented business application software
company from February 2000 to February 2002. From 1996 to 1999, Ms. Cottle served as Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary of Raychem Corporation.
Mr. Lynch currently serves as Adobe’ s Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of the Experience &
Technology Organization. Mr. Lynch joined Adobe as Chief Software Architect and Senior Vice President for Adobe’ s
Platform Business Unit through our acquisition of Macromedia, Inc. in December 2005. At Macromedia, Mr. Lynch served
as Chief Software Architect and President of Product Development, where he led Macromedia in advancing Web software
including managing the initial development of Macromedia Dreamweaver and guiding Flash to its current widespread
adoption across the Web. Prior to Macromedia, Mr. Lynch participated in a variety of technical and management roles in
startups including Frame Technology and General Magic.