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Rob Burgess is a Canadian businessman in the computing industry. Burgess graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1979. He worked extensively in the field of high-performance computer graphics, spending years in key executive posts at Silicon Graphics, and as CEO of Alias Research. From 1996, Rob Burgess was CEO of Macromedia until 2005. He also served as Board Chairman 1998-2005 a position he held when the company was acquired by Adobe Systems for $3.4 billion in a transaction which closed on December 5, 2005.〔(Adobe Acquires Macromedia ), ''The New York Times'', 2005.〕〔http://people.forbes.com/profile/robert-k-burgess/1383〕 Under Burgess' tenure, he led the company's transformation from a CD-ROM based multimedia company to a prominent market position in web authoring and development solutions. While he was chairman and CEO, the vector animation product Flash become a pervasive multimedia platform, available on 98% of browsers worldwide. 〔(Flash Browser Adoption: Millward Brown Study ), Adobe, March 2008.〕 Rob Burgess currently sits on the Board of Directors of Real Matters Inc., - a Canadian Technology Company that focuses on real estate data and valuations. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rob Burgess」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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