Bruce Chizen is the Chair of our board of directors and has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2015. Prior to our public offering, he served as the Executive Chair of our board of directions since January 2016, and as a special advisor since August 2015.
Previously Bruce served as Adobe Systems, Inc.’s chief executive officer
responsible for the company’s customer-focused vision which transformed Adobe
into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in
terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. As CEO from 2000 to
2007, Bruce tripled Adobe's revenue and turned a company, known mainly for its
popular design products, into one of the most significant forces in the
software industry.
Prior to becoming CEO, Bruce was executive vice president of worldwide
products and marketing. At Adobe since 1994, he was previously vice president
and general manager of both the professional graphics division and Adobe's
consumer division.
From 1980 to 1983, he worked in Mattel Electronics’ merchandising group,
helping grow it to a $500 million business. In 1983, Chizen joined Microsoft
Corporation eventually becoming the company’s eastern region sales director.
In 1987, he joined Claris Corporation, a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc.,
as a founding senior manager and later held positions as vice president of
sales and worldwide marketing before becoming vice president and general
manager of Claris Clear Choice.
Bruce is a Venture Partner with Voyager Capital and Senior Advisor to Permira
Funds, and currently serves on the boards of Oracle Corp., Synopsys, Inc,
Ancestry.com and Chargepoint Inc. He also serves on the non-profit public
broadcaster KQED.
Bruce holds a bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New
York.